• Client

        An Indian consumer goods company

      • Industry

        FMCG

      • Primary goal

        Finance transformation

      • Service provided

        Powered finance


      Client challenge

      The client is a market leader in the FMCG industry, operating in food and beverage category, with a procurement spend exceeding several thousand crores. The finance function was outsourced to a tier-one service provider in 2017. As part of a consolidation effort and to drive transformation, the finance function was later in-sourced into a hybrid managed service model. However, the model was fragmented and lacked standardisation, leading to delays, inconsistencies, and inefficiencies. The client aimed to revamp the current Procure to Pay (PTP) process and engaged KPMG in India for the transformation, focusing on process standardisation and improving the productivity of their shared services.

      Additionally, they requested a peer benchmarking of the processes and technologies to re-identify PTP business drivers and redesign the future state model. To maintain their position as a market leader in the sector, they sought our assistance in selecting the right technology and supporting the implementation phase alongside the client’s preferred partner.

      Service provided

      Service provided

      KPMG in India facilitated a series of client workshops to collect data, evaluate the current (AS-IS) processes, benchmark industry leading practices, conduct an extensive gap analysis, and identify key opportunities for the improvement in the procure to pay process. KPMG in India designed the future-state operating model by utilizing the KPMG in India’s powered platform approach. This approach provided actionable insights to enhance operational efficiency. KPMG in India identified areas for improvement in the upstream procurement process that increased the utilization of catalog for indirect spends to reduce the PR-PO cycle time and release procurement team’s bandwidth to focus more on strategic sourcing and negotiations. In the accounts payable area KPMG in India designed intervention to enable touchless invoice processing, automated three-way matching and query management. KPMG in India helped to migrate from email-based processes to workflow-based processes with well-defined roles, responsibility and audit trail.


      Impact

      • 70% Productivity improvement
      • 59% Reduction in queries
      • 95% Invoices paid on time
      • 85% Invoices posted on time
      groups

      Identified and compared key performance indicators for AP process like paid on terms, first pass yield, early payment discounts to check the performance across the industry standard

      assignment

      Standardised PTP across spend categories and digitised AP to enable touchless invoice processing

      auto_stories

      Automated query responses within the client internal tool and set an SLA for timely query allocation and resolution


      Key Contacts

      Arun Nair

      Partner and Leader, Corporate Services Transformation

      KPMG in India

      Gejoy Kuriakose

      Partner, Corporate Services, FT

      KPMG in India

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