EXA Global Value Chain (GVC)
Overview
Challenges in rapidly changing markets
How profitable are your products across the entire value chain? How high are your overall material, manufacturing, and logistics costs? Would you like to see these costs split at every level of the value chain? How are you affected by fluctuating raw material prices or exchange rates?
These are just some of the questions that central controlling, sales, or product and supply chain management units of international companies are finding increasingly difficult to answer.
The Solution: Global Value Chain
EXA Global Value Chain, or EXA GVC for short, is an SAP add-on solution that enables you to calculate your group costs and profitability at every level of the value chain. More specifically, you can calculate the costs per division, product group, and product across all production locations and systems without having to painstakingly eliminate the intercompany profits manually. EXA GVC not only provides a clear overview of your group costs and profitability, but also offers end-to-end transparency, enabling you to meet global statutory regulations and compliance requirements. Solution highlights include:
Tight integration with all your SAP systems – no need to worry about the number of systems, their releases, and geographic boundaries
Data harmonization even when facing master data challenges between systems
Full transparency of end-to-end value chains (from the procurement of raw materials, production, logistics at various plants in various countries, to the final sale of products) at the most granular level, in other words, at any and every stage of the value chain
Cost rollup across entities and systems
Calculation of consolidated standard costs (based on standard costs) and global product margin
Calculation of consolidated actual costs (derived from actual transactions)
Clear understanding of your cost drivers for each product
Financial decision support for “make or buy” scenarios
Calculation of unrealized profits in inventory in various entities
360-degree product view – a global bill of materials for each product with the option to drill down to any and every production step
What-if scenarios – simulation capabilities to understand the potential impact of changes in procurement costs, activity costs, logistics costs, exchange rates, etc.
Tight integration with source ERP systems
EXA GVC automatically retrieves data from all connected SAP ERP systems while ensuring that no context information is lost, even in complex processes, such as cross-company sales, drop shipments, tolling, stock in transit, and so on. It also ensures that the value chains calculated in EXA GVC can be reconciled with the information in the local ERP systems at any time. Thanks to the intelligent integration in EXA GVC, master data breaks between the ERP systems can be easily identified and corrected.
One system providing detailed insight on all your value chains
Standard connectors to read relevant finance and logistics information from source systems – from SAP R/3 to SAP S/4HANA
Data harmonization even when facing master data challenges, such as material number breaks, UoM breaks, or business partner breaks in intercompany transactions
Value chains fully in sync with pieces of information in underlying ERP systems
Group cost, unrealized profit in inventory, and other valuable information can be fed into downstream reporting systems
File interfaces for non-SAP ERP systems that allow pieces of value chains from non-SAP ERP systems to be added
Calculation of consolidated standard costs
Standard product costs and intercompany relations are used to determine the global value network for all products sold. The quantity structures and cost contributions for the respective level are derived from the calculations. For better transparency, the costs are mapped to a global cost structure according to their origin. Using EXA GVC, you can map relations across system boundaries. On the basis of this quantity and cost structure, the costs are rolled up end to end for each material (material-plant combination), from the raw material through production to sales. The global cost structure therefore enables you to analyze group production costs for each material along the value chain. Furthermore, based on the integrated comparison against local costs, you can calculate and report the included intercompany profit at each level. EXA GVC also supports the calculation of group production costs in the context of make-to-order production.
Consolidated cost is based on standard costs
GVC uses weighted average approach to calculate cost
Option to consider opening inventories and the last valuation and include historical cost and FX impact
End-to-end value chain is determined based on intercompany relations and, if required, transaction data is leveraged to establish relations
Cost transparency at material level (for each material-plant combination including semi-finished materials), allowing you to drill down from group, company code, and plant to individual product
Cost component split tracking for all components is maintained in the underlying ERP systems along the value chain
Costs in local and group valuation
Option to also calculate/consider work in progress and stock in transit at product level
Calculation of consolidated actual costs
The global value network is created based on the transactions actually posted in the ERP systems. In this case, the quantity structures are obtained from the material documents, which are then mapped to the GVC structure. The costs are also derived from the actual documents. In addition to the actual purchase and production costs, they also contain the related variances. These variances, together with the costs along the global value network, are also rolled up across intercompany and system boundaries. EXA GVC Actual Costing thus allows you to perform a profitability analysis for all products sold, taking into account any variances within the global value network. Furthermore, similar to the consolidated standard costs, the intermediary profit shares can be read off at each stage and for each material along the value chain.
Consolidated cost is derived from the actual transactions in the underlying ERP systems
Weighted average algorithm is used to calculate material in stock
End-to-end value chain is determined based on intercompany relations and, if required, transaction data is leveraged to establish relations
Cost transparency along with the related variances at material level (for each material-plant combination including semi-finished materials), allowing you to drill down from group, company code, and plant to individual product
Variance & revaluation effects are made transparent at business process and material level
Actual costs are provided in local and group valuation
Unrealized profit in inventory (UPI)
Intercompany profit is the profit made when one group entity sells to another entity of the same group (intercompany). The intercompany profit is generated at the selling entity and is the difference between the revenue and the local cost at this entity.
At the end of the reporting period, all intercompany (also unrealized) profit is calculated and rolled up along the value chain and is visible in every business process. For the consolidation process, the intercompany profits are mainly relevant in the following areas:
Profit in inventory: value of the intercompany profit for global materials that are held in stock in the various companies (in the financial value chain)
Profit on stock in transit: the intercompany profit for goods shipped but not yet received by the intercompany receiver needs to be considered from the inventory perspective for all materials traded between the companies
Profit on goods sold externally: the intercompany profit generated when goods are sold to the market
EXA GVC can be used to calculate UPI at any point of a value chain.
UPI can be tracked both in local and group currency
With its weighted average costing approach, you can track UPI at any point of the value chain
You can drill down on UPI from organization level to company code, to plant, and ultimately to product level
The approach in group currency not only considers the impact of historical FX rates, which is kept in the opening balance when converting from local added value to group currency, but also considers the historical cost of materials and activities
In comparison, the UPI in local currency only considers the impact of the historical cost
Display changes in the UPI between two periods using GVC
360-degree product view
On the basis of the derived global value network, EXA GVC also derives an end-to-end bill of materials (global BOM) for each material, regardless of the plant or company code within the organization. Besides information on the quantities of raw materials consumed, a global BOM also contains information on the services consumed. Thus, you can analyze the distribution of intermediate profits within the participating companies in detail. Furthermore, the global BOM provides an overview showing which activities are involved in the production of which materials.
End-to-end view of all materials containing details on the consumed raw materials, activities, and freight
Drill down on costs and profits at each level of the value chain
Development of costs and profits over a period with details on the sources of change (purchase price, quantity difference, and FX impact)
Where-used reports to determine which materials are consumed in which products
An end-to-end global BOM for each material containing all relevant details on quantities, costs, etc. at each stage
Simulation / what-if analysis
Global value network and, in turn, global BOMs allow you to run what-if analysis and can cover various scenarios that can help businesses make important decisions in a timely manner. These include not only simple scenarios such as the impact of changes in raw material prices or activity prices, but also scenarios such as required quantities for forecasted sales in markets. Furthermore, GVC could be used to determine the costs of new products where the new product is derived from an existing product and uses some of its components along with some new components and value-addition activities for which information would need to be provided.
Impact of raw material (or externally procured materials) on final products
Impact of activity price changes in a plant on final products
Impact of exchange rate changes on final products
Procurement planning based on forecasted sales
Cost estimate of a new product
And many more …
Uncompromised security
There’s no need to worry about the security of your data. EXA GVC is an SAP add-on, which means that it enjoys the exact same security as your other SAP applications. The same goes for other features, such as single sign-on or SAP roles.
EXA GVC enjoys the same data security as that of underlying SAP systems
Single sign-on with existing SAP users
SAP roles and authorizations in line with your GRC strategy