Axon delivers best practice solutions to support all aspects of a utility’s operations – critically we are able to deliver these solutions using our own consulting base, without the need to rely on subcontractors. Specific capabilities of relevance to the utilities industry include:
CCS Billing
Axon has delivered over 40 SAP IS-U CCS implementations across all major utilities including gas, electricity, water, solid waste, etc. Our implementations have delivered complex billing solutions for commercial and residential customers for regulated and deregulated utilities and for single and multi-utilities. We have deployed both stand-alone CCS solutions as well as integrated CCS/EAM/ERP implementations including comprehensive web and IVR self-service functionality. Realised benefits have included reduced customer service and billing costs, improved rates of collection, reduced time and cost to implement and change tariffs, increased utilisation of self-service channels, improved billing accuracy and reduced bad debt write-off.
Customer Relationship Management
Axon pioneered the use of SAP in customer call centre environments, developing a packaged SAP contact centre solution that was designed specifically to meet the required levels of transactional processing within high volume, scripted inbound and outbound call centre environments. Today Axon has implemented multi-channel SAP solutions in over 47 call centres, supporting 4,000+ call centre agents, eCommerce, eService and IVR applications. Our clients have reported improved call centre capacity, reduced call handling times, reduced call centre costs and improved cross-sell and up-sell rates. Integrated analytics has been used by our clients to develop better targeted customer acquisition and retention campaigns.
We are one of the only organisations globally to have implemented integrated ISU and SAP CRM solutions.
Enterprise Asset Management
Axon is recognised by SAP as the go to partner for complex, large scale asset management solutions. We have delivered full lifecycle EAM solutions in some of the most demanding industries including airline operations and maintenance, engine overhaul, military equipment maintenance and utilities. These solutions support both field based and base maintenance for spatial assets and components. Delivered benefits increased engineer productivity, increased asset reliability, accurate operational cost of ownership information and better prioritisation of investment. We have deployed fully integrated EAM solutions encompassing mobile asset management, GPRS and GIS technologies.
World Class Finance
Axon has delivered numerous finance transformation programmes designed to better align the provision of financial services to the needs of the wider organisation. Benefits delivered include reduced transactional processing costs, consolidation and streamlining of financial functions, improved financial information and the enablement of financial shared services.
Corporate Performance Management
Axon has unique capabilities in the design and deployment of effective corporate performance management frameworks that are both tied to our client’s required strategic outcomes and fed by the deployed best practice SAP processes. Our consultants employ a rapid development methodology to accelerate the delivery of demonstrable reporting and business planning prototypes which are used to iteratively confirm the overall reporting framework. Within our utilities practice we have developed SAP BI enabled standard reporting frameworks to support operational unit cost analysis of assets, customer profitability reporting and analysis as well as rate case modeling and planning tools.
Supply Chain Management
Axon has the in-house experience and capabilities to assess and re-engineer our client’s procurement and supply chain processes including delivering inventory optimisation and procurement efficiencies. Our approach to SAP-enabled ‘joined-up’ procurement for one of our customers has realised over $200m in savings. Supply chain performance diagnostics have identified improved patterns of inventory disposition and warehouse rationalisation opportunities for numerous other organisations. We are recognised as experts in delivering SAP SRM solutions, in the deployment of catalogue based procurement solutions, supplier integration and eRFX solutions. We are the exclusive SAP integration partner for American Express’ corporate procurement card.
Human Capital Management
Axon has built one of the strongest global HR implementation capabilities of any SAP partner. Our capabilities cover all of the core SAP HCM components and extend into re-engineering HR functions and the implementation of SAP-enabled HR shared services. We have particular expertise in the design and deployment of web-enabled HR self service solutions and have developed a library of solutions which significantly extend the power of the standard SAP ESS and MSS solution. We are recognised by SAP as having delivered the most comprehensive implementation of shift planning to support operational crew management and duty based payroll. Our implementations have been shown to directly reduce HR administration costs and to lead to improved workforce deployment patterns, increasing organisational capacity while reducing payroll costs. |
