Issue The client is an energy company whose retail business was expanding faster than its manual processes could support. Rapid retail growth outpaced the client's largely manual processes: To stay competitive, the business needed to automate ordering, data processing, pricing, quoting, and contracting. The client had deep retail knowledge but lacked the internal analysis capacity […]
Issue The client is a power generator that had recently moved into MISO South after participating in Entergy pre-merger. Since joining MISO South, Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch were producing less-than-optimal results: Operating parameters, start-up and no-load costs, and heat-rate settings had not been re-tuned for the new market. Sub-optimal offers cost the client margin […]
Issue A large investor-owned utility, with multiple geographic and business unit operations, was utilizing Excel spreadsheet reports from over 30 separate data sources and measuring various business drivers from their customer facing operations. This client requested an automated and simplified visual display of trends and alerts for key customer facing business drivers. Solution Our consultant […]
Issue Emissions trades listed on the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE) were originally modeled as physicals creating problems with present value mark-to-market (MTM) valuation and settlement resulting in double discounting of MTM. Solution Our consultant identified the problems and applied business knowledge to design a solution that eliminated the valuation problem. The consultant performed extensive […]
Issue The client operated its business in two different time zones and experienced difficulty integrating the data to maintain the accuracy of the daily P&L, value at risk (VaR), and invoicing reports. In attempting to standardize the trading position, the client entered the transactions as one time zone. This created a problem when the trades […]
Issue Our client, a $500M developer of large manufacturing testing equipment, required an improved SAP tool for developing customer sales quotes versus what their SAP VC module could supply. They had identified a third-party application providing the missing functionality, but desired a partner to assist with the design, development, and deployment of the interfaces […]
Issue The client had been utilizing the full SAP suite for build-to-order since 1999, but had never enabled UNICODE. Companies desiring the extended ASCII character set for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese symbols must first modify all programs to enable UNICODE, and allow them to translate forms and screens into native Asian languages. As this […]
Issue Our manufacturing client initiated a major upgrade to infrastructure (LAN, telephony, video) to improve network performance, standardize configurations, and replace antiquated equipment. Solution Our engineering consultants developed the project, created cut-over and roll-back plans, designed and deployed switch configurations, and implemented the new system alongside the client’s full-time engineers. As part […]
Issue Our client’s large PeopleSoft ERP installation was experiencing multiple instances of unauthorized payments in P/S HRMS to third party benefit vendors upon reenrollment cycles. This issue had the undesired effect of causing inaccurate deductions from compensation for some employees. No pattern or consistency was apparent regarding the errors. Identifying these anomalies and correcting […]
Issue A university decided to convert approximately 1,000 adjunct faculty from independent contractor status to full-time status. Since these individuals resided across the U.S., they needed to implement a Vertex Sales and Use Tax software application to coincide with the enrollment of these “new” employees in an extremely short timeframe. Solution […]
