Entrepreneurship and innovation

INFO2039- Management Information Systems

SAP S/4HANA: Case study on Global Bike (GBI)

Group work:  6 students

Deadline: 21/04/2020

Global Bike (GBI) has recently increased their sales in Europe and, importantly, in Germany thanks to the quality of their products. More retail bike shops are interested in selling GBI’s products. Based on their surveys on client satisfaction of their products, GBI has discovered that their clients are seeking for additional accessory products for their bikes from GBI. These products include: light, navigation device, glasses, shoes, and cycling bags. GBI has therefore decided to make those products available. However, GBI decided not to manufacture those products themselves but to outsource the production to their vendors.

The products, vendors and retailer shops are listed below:

Note: Replace XXX with your number.

Products:

Note: You may invent detail information about the product for encoding in SAP. However, do not exaggerate.

Vendors:

Note: You may invent detail information about these three vendors for encoding in SAP.

Clients/retail bike shops:

Note: You may invent detail information about these three retailers for encoding in SAP

All these products are stocked in Heidelberg warehouse.

Your Tasks:

Note: Take note of every reference number of your products, vendors, retailers, document numbers, etc. while working with SAP. We need those information to verify if you have done your project correctly.

Task 1: Encode the five products, three vendors and three retailers in the SAP system.

Task 2: You are asked to perform the purchase-to-pay process for GBI:

1. GBI aims at buying 1000 units of light. VenBelXXX proposes 70EUR per unit, VenChiXXX proposes 50EUR per unit and VenGerXXX proposes 60EUR per unit. Based on these information, GBI decides to buy 1000 units of light from VenGerXXX. At the end of this process, you are asked to verify that you have 1000 units of light in your stock in Heidelberg and you have paid your vendor.
2. GBI aims at buying 500 units of pair of glasses. VenBelXXX proposes 25EUR per unit and VenGerXXX proposes 30 euros per unit. Based on these information, GBI decides to buy from VenBelXXX. At the end of this process, you are asked to verify that you have 500 units of pair of glasses in your stock in Heidelberg and you have paid your vendor.
3. GBI buys of 500 units of navigation (150€/unit), 500 units of pair of shoes (40€/unit), and 500 units of bags (25€/unit) from their vendors. At the end of this processes, you are asked to verify that you have 500 units of navigation, 500 units of pair of shoes, 500 units of bags and you have paid your vendors.

Task 3: You are asked to perform the order-to-cash process for GBI:

1. ReTBonnXXX asks for quotation for 30 units of navigation and 50 units of bags.
2. ReTMunichXXX buys 30 units of pair of glasses, 20 units of light, and 30 units of navigation. You deliver those products to your client. You are asked to verify your stock at the end of the process.  
3. ReTStuttgartXXX buys 40 units of bags and 30 units of navigation. You deliver those products to your client. You are asked to verify your stock at the end of the process.
4. Finally, ReTBonnXXX accepts the quotation and purchases those products. You deliver those product to your client. You are asked to verify your stock at the end of the process.

Task 4: After running the order-to-cash and purchase-to-order business processes with SAP (i.e., best practice business process implemented in SAP), you are asked to model these two business processes using BPMN.

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