Background

Trinity Mirror Group was formed from the merger of Mirror Group Newspapers and Trinity Group in 1999.  The newly merged group has over 140 titles including the Daily and Sunday Mirror, Scottish Daily Record, Liverpool Echo and Birmingham Mail.  Today Trinity Mirror Group is one of the UK’s largest Newspaper publishing companies, it also has a network of nine print sites across the UK, which as well as printing the Trinity Mirror titles, also print titles like the Independent, Racing Post and Manchester Evening News.   Trinity Mirror Group also runs over 400 web sites in its ever expanding digital business.

Need to Modernise Systems

The first steps of the project were initially in printing division.  Trinity Mirror Printing had previously used a complex system of interlinked excel spreadsheets to produce their Budget.  It was decided to purchase a modern business intelligence tool to take over this budget process.

Case study

The scope of the project was extended to include the budgeting for the Regionals business.  It was also decided to replace the groups outdated reporting system (FDC), which brought an important new factor into consideration, the chosen tool had to be able to take on a highly complex budgeting process while also be simple and easy enough for users to perform their month end reporting.  The chosen product would now become the group wide solution for management reporting, budgeting and forecasting and financial reporting.

Why SAP BPC?

During the system selection process there were several main vendors competing.  As the scope of the project grew, the need to make the right choice became ever more essential.  The vendors were put through a formal bid process where each was invited to respond to series of questions based on how their product would handle the Trinity Mirror requirements.  Trinity chose SAP BPC ahead of the other business intelligence tools as a result of this process.

CopperMan’s Role

CopperMan were introduced to Trinity by the software vendor.  CopperMan’s role on the project was to take over the lead of the design and build of the applications, with support from internal resources and consulting partners.

Why CopperMan

As one of the market leading SAP BPC consultancies, with a proven track record in designing and building successful applications, CopperMan was chosen to lead the design to ensure that Trinity Mirror get the best out of the SAP BPC product.

CopperMan Consulting offer a range of services focussed on adding value to the clients installation of SAP BPC.  We do this by delivering an optimised BPC application. This means:

• A  faster month end close process
• Better access to critical business information
• Reduced effort to produce information 

CopperMan have extensive experience of ensuring the performance of BPC is optimised through

• Application design
• Selection of most appropriate functionality to achieve the required result, e.g. use of script logic, dimension formula, custom reporting, database modification
• Application tuning 
• Delivery of Best Practice methodologies

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