Project Spotlight: Global Chart of Accounts Redesign Across 534 ERPs

We’re proud to highlight a truly transformative, multi-year initiative: the Enterprise Standard Chart of Accounts (ESCOA) redesign for a global industrial manufacturing conglomerate, operating across:

🔹 Healthcare 🔹 Aviation 🔹 Capital 🔹 Power 🔹 Renewable Energy 🔹 Transportation 🔹 Oil & Gas 🔹

Each business unit represents billions in annual revenue, with operations in 100+ countries and decades of decentralized ERP growth.

The Challenge:
An environment (financial system landscape) of 534 ERP systems including multiple versions of:

🏔️ Oracle EBS 🏔️ Oracle Fusion 🏔️ SAP 🏔️ PeopleSoft 🏔️ Baan 🏔️ and numerous homegrown systems 🏔️

This complexity hindered enterprise reporting, consolidation, regulatory compliance, and digital finance innovation.

The Mission:
Design and implement a unified, scalable Enterprise Standard Chart of Accounts (ESCOA) to support a planned ERP consolidation effort—reducing 534 ERP systems down to 34 strategic ERPs globally.

What Was Delivered:
✅ A standardized, governance-driven ESCOA for all business units and geographies
✅ Consolidation of thousands of disparate GL account structures into a single global model
✅ CoA mapping and automated crosswalks across legacy systems
✅ Aligned ESCOA with reporting, compliance, and operational needs
✅ Enabled a scalable foundation for global ERP rationalization and cloud migration
✅ Drove adoption and global deployment with robust change management

Key Outcomes:
📉 CoA complexity reduced by 70%
📈 Accelerated monthly close and financial consolidation timelines
🌐 Unified global reporting and analytics across all major business units
🔁 Enabled strategic ERP consolidation from 534 to 34 systems
🧠 Empowered the finance function with trusted, enterprise-level insights

This was not just a technical integration—it was a strategic finance transformation at global scale, unlocking agility, transparency, and control for a $60B+ organization.

Grateful to the incredible client business partners and cross-functional teams who helped make this possible!

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