General 02 london tech tour konica minolta case study

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Nicolas Führs
CRM Development Manager
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH
Nicolas.Fuehrs@konicaminolta.eu
Case Study

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Agenda
• Corporate background
• Challenge
• Solution
• Results
• Next steps
• Q&A

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Corporate Background
Billion ¥SALES BREAKDOWN BY REGION
(FY 2014)
1,002.7
Consolidated net sales (FY 2014)
Approx.
8,800
employees throughout
Europe contribute to help
our clients concentrate on
what they do best: their
business
Active in 50 countries throughout
Europe and
172
NORTHAMERICA
countries throughout the
world
EUROPE
JAPAN
ASIA&OTHER
23% 33% 19% 25%

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Challenge for the CRM Project
• Cost
Replace various legacy CRM systems in 26 European country
organizations
• Efficiency
Increase efficiency, automation of sales order process and a holistic
view on the customer base
• Sales
Increase customer retention and analytics capabilities for Marketing,
Sales and Services processes

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Challenge for the Integration
• Migration and integration
Migrate and integrate data spread across CRM systems from 26+ countries
into one central CRM database and integrate CRM with two ERP platforms
(SAP;NAV) and other third-party systems.
• More efficient communication
Eliminate need for sales to communicate with ERP staff by phone and email
to answer queries regarding customer orders, customer credit, and invoices.
• Real time information
Empower senior management with real-time access to key performance
indicators to assess business activity and sales pipelines.

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Solution
• Meets in-country requirements and adheres to corporate policies so data
can be compiled in a single unified system—Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
• Converts prospects into customers without creating duplicate entries.
• Facilitates management of product compatibility, bundling and pricing
through imports that externally allocate source files.
• Publishes aggregated CRM data to reseller channel portals and allows
resellers to query the database.
• Processes scheduled file imports/exports into CRM in different formats,
e.g. CSV, XML

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Solution - Project Overview
MS CRM 2015
Roll-Out Europe
Roll-Out APAC
Upgrade 2015
Performance
Bi-directional Interfaces
Harmonization
Data Governance
Marketing
EPC
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 20162015
MS CRM 2011MS CRM 4.0
Pilots
Deployment Automation
Test Automation
Technical Functionality
Business Functionality
MS Dynamics

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Solution
• General Microsoft CRM figures
Facts Amount
Users in Europe 2.500
Supported countries in Europe 20
Users in APAC 250
Amount of data 1 Terra byte
Connected ERP systems 18

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Solution
• General Scribe Integration figures
(IP = Integration Process)
Integration Component Amount
Scribe Queue Publisher 93
Scribe Queue IP 77
Scribe Query IP 19
Scribe Time IP 6
Scheduled tasks 24
TOTAL 219

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Solution
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
June July August
Millions
Scribe Performance
Source rows
Operations
Average per month Average per day
Source rows ~23.100.000 ~770.000
Operations ~48.800.000 ~1.626.600

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Results
• Gives sales team immediate access to customer and product order
data—without communicating with personnel from other departments.
• Provides senior management in Europe and Asia as well as corporate
headquarters in Japan with business performance analysis in real time.
• Allows direct sales teams and reseller partners to generate quotes with
greater accuracy through automatic product catalog updates.
• Documents sales processes with real-time information by uploading
sales orders from ERP system into CRM system and linking customer,
sales order and quote records.

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Lessons Learned
• Design it right
◦ Redesigning running integrations is cost intensive
• Be transparent towards the business
◦ Let no room for discussions about the actual integration status
◦ Let the business see and solve business related integration errors

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Lessons Learned
• Technical performance tweaks
Do not search for special tricks - get trained!
• Best performance improvement is
Minimize the amount of data – Reduce the number of source rows 

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Next Steps
• Upgrade to the latest Scribe Version
• Distribute Scribe Knowledge
• Upgrade from Microsoft CRM 2011 to Microsoft CRM 2015
• Marketo integration pilot

Thank you!
Q&A Contact me at:
Nicolas Führs
CRM Development Manager
Konica Minolta Business
Solutions Europe GmbH
Nicolas.Fuehrs@konicaminolta.eu

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