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Adelaide Brighton Ltd Background
Business Transformation
Achievement 2Providing IT solutions to
upgrade customer workflows
Securing Further Growth through Change
Adelaide Brighton Ltd is a leading integrated
construction material and lime producing group of
companies focused on the construction, engineering,
infrastructure and resource sectors in Australia.
Adelaide Brighton Ltd has over 1,400 employees
and has operations in all Australian states and
territories. Adelaide Brighton Ltd originated in 1882
and is an S&P/ASX 100 company.
Company Profile
Company Name:
Adelaide Brighton Ltd
Location:
Australia
Established:
1882
Employees:
Over 1,400
Adelaide Brighton had already laid the foundations of their
SAP platform with installation of SAP ERP*1. This project for
procure to pay automation and invoice management was a
key expansion of that foundation and was to be initially
implemented within the larger Cement and Lime division.
Adelaide Brighton’s legacy process was a clear area for
business process improvement. The key objective in
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia Pty. Ltd’s
subsidiary company, Stonebridge Systems, delivered an end
to end accounts payable automation solution for Adelaide
Brighton.
The Stonebridge team worked closely with Adelaide
Brighton throughout the blueprinting, installation and
configuration, QA, integration and user acceptance testing
phases of the project. Planning sessions were held with key
management, business user representatives and technical
specialists to confirm business goals, objectives, readiness,
and to orient team members for the project. Workshops were
held to identify, confirm, validate, and further define the
requirements for the implementation. Critically, Stonebridge
coached the Adelaide Brighton team throughout and held
knowledge transfer sessions for the internal support team in
preparation for go-live.
The solution is effectively an extension to the existing SAP
solution at Adelaide Brighton, expanding on existing workflow
functionality and incorporating screens that are integrated with
the well-known SAP GUI, giving a seamless look and feel. This
resulted in a solution that significantly minimised the change
impact to the Adelaide Brighton user community. Combined
with the exception management capability and invoice status
visibility, this gave Adelaide Brighton key quick wins and a
process improvement gain.
implementing OpenText Vendor Invoice Management for SAP
Solutions (SAP IM)*2 was to streamline the invoice handling
component of the procure to pay processes and gain
operational efficiencies.
Results
Stonebridge’s successful track record, product and business
knowledge meant that the implementation was done in a timely
manner, helping to keep project costs to a minimum.
Since implementation, Adelaide Brighton has seen some great
results including:
• Significant business process improvement through invoice
process automation;
• Accelerated accounts payable operations;
• Improved vendor relationships with enquiries being serviced more
efficiently and the more complex invoice payment issues being
managed very effectively;
• Better reporting and analysis with real-time access to more
complete and accurate data; and
• Solution has proven to be very flexible/extensible and has been
recently implemented within the Concrete and Aggregates
division of Adelaide Brighton.
Streamlining invoice management and the procure-to-pay business process
Business challenge
Automating the recording of accounts payable to speed up operations
The solution
*1 Registered trademark of SAP SE.
*2 Registered trademark of OpenText Corporation.
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