SAP S/4HANA · Controlling & Finance
Costlex designs the cost model of S/4HANA programmes for manufacturing groups: Material Ledger, product costing, margin analysis and transfer pricing between plants and affiliates.
Practice areas
Controlling is where an S/4HANA programme earns or loses its business case. These are the areas Costlex owns end to end, from design workshops to the first period close.
Multi-level actual costing, price differences rolled up the bill of materials, and a period-end close that finance can explain.
Cost component structures, costing variants and costing runs that compare plant by plant, with WIP, variances and settlement under control.
Margin by product, customer, channel and country, with cost of sales split by component so the margin is actual, not standard.
Parallel legal, group and profit centre valuations for groups whose plants sell to their own affiliates.
Replication, source-to-target mapping and reconciliation when several source ERPs feed one group view.
Service contracts run as projects, billing plans and resource-related billing, and the move to event-based revenue recognition.
One sale, three margins
A plant sells to its own distributor at a transfer price. Statutory books, group reporting and franchise managers each need a different margin from that single transaction. S/4HANA can hold all three without manual reconciliations, if the design gets it right before go-live.
Each company keeps its own margin, internal profit included.
Group cost, with the intercompany profit taken out of stock.
Each unit at its internal management price.
How an engagement runs
Working inside the client's team or next to the system integrator, with one rule: standard first, and every exception justified in writing.
Fit-to-standard workshops with finance; valuations, currencies and the cost model decided once, globally.
Configuration, master data and migration, keeping the template intact country by country.
Integration with procurement, sales and manufacturing; evidence ready for audit and validation.
The cost model rehearsed and reconciled before go-live, so the first period end holds.
Track record
Costlex brings thirty years of SAP for international manufacturing groups, and S/4HANA on-premise delivery since 2016.
The programmes below are among the longest engagements behind the practice. Most ran from design through build to the first go-lives, in pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and process manufacturing.
Selected programmes
Client names are listed for context only. No client endorsement is implied.
Product costing with full FI-CO integration in a multi-country European template, plus migration and cleansing of financial and cost master data.
S/4HANAConsumer goods
Full SAP Financials implementation for a financial services group, integrated with more than 200 applications; financial integration lead at Komatsu in parallel.
R/3 → ECC 6.0Financial services · machinery
One of the two single points of contact for Central Finance: replication, source-to-target mapping and reconciliation across several source ERPs.
S/4HANA 2020Electrical equipment
Product costing, inventory valuation and profit centre transfer prices on one global template, through build and the first go-lives in Switzerland, Italy and Belgium, with SOX controls.
S/4HANA 2019Pharmaceuticals
Controlling, record-to-report and Central Finance design for a global stainless steel manufacturer, with the solution architecture signed off.
S/4HANA 1610Metals
Controlling and product costing design in a global rollout, with inventory valuation and profit centre transfer prices.
ECC 6.0Pharmaceuticals
Also: Sanofi, Novartis (Sandoz & Hexal), Siemens Healthcare services, Vidrala / Encirc, Beam Suntory, Bacardi Martini, DaimlerChrysler, Dyno Nobel, Bayer.
How Costlex works with you
Remote across Europe, on site when the programme calls for it. Spanish and English.
Owns the CO design inside your team or next to the system integrator, from workshops to the first close.
Reviews an integrator's cost model, valuation design or transfer pricing set-up before it reaches build.
Steps into a running programme to cover a key Controlling role without slowing the plan.
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