- The deployment of an ERP aims to create consistent and efficient applications across our agencies on a global level, to facilitate real-time information sharing and analysis regardless of the size or location of the agency.
- This project, named Altair has been already deployed in Europe: France, UK, Belgium, Netherland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain and Portugal as well as in North America: US, Canada and Costa Rica and also in Australia and India. We are continuously growing ALTAIR into the other countries as well.
- The Altair solution provides a common process and application platform to all agencies and Shared Service Centres (SSC) for the following CORE processes
- Client & Vendor set-up
- Manage projects
- Project Estimating
- Manage time & Expenses
- Purchasing & procurement
- Production billing
- Inter-company
- Finance ( Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Fixed Assets..)
- Month end Closing
- All these CORE processes are supported by extensive reporting capabilities.
- The processes are run on SAP ECC7.4 (SD billing, MM purchasing, FI, CO, PS, AA) and SAP Netweaver (Portal, PI, BI). The following project tools are in use: Solution manager, Quality center, U-Perform, U-Learn, Loadrunner.
- The SAP platform will be fully integrated into the Publicis application landscape: HFM for corporate reporting, TMS for treasury management and dedicated applications for Media planning and buying
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