Multinational mining · SAP consulting

Sustainability planning

Delivered a sustainability planning solution and stayed through the support period until the business had a stable go-live.

Mining Environment & society
Planning Support period Analytics Cloud

Result · Stable go-live

The brief

A multinational mining group needed sustainability planning that the business could run, and support through the first cycles after go-live. The risk was a plan that existed beside the close and was never trusted in the pack.

Why it is still a finance system

Sustainability planning is still financial planning. The numbers have to land in the same rhythm as the rest of the close, or they become a side system nobody trusts. The plan had to live where the rest of planning lives, on Analytics Cloud, so the business was not asked to maintain a second calendar.

The build

A planning solution the business could run independently, followed by hypercare through a stable go-live. The work was the model, the planning cycle, and the period after cutover, scoped together.

The support period

Go-live is not the last workshop. We stayed through hypercare and the first reporting periods, until the team was running the plan without the project holding it up. A stable go-live means the next cycle starts from the system, not from a handover document.

What shipped

A sustainability plan running in the live planning cycle, supported through the first reporting periods after go-live. The numbers sit in the same rhythm as the rest of the close.