Manufacturing · Finance & Supply Chain
Commissions Land 48% Faster and Cash Arrives 30% Sooner
A 40-year North American manufacturer unified finance and supply chain on one cloud platform. We deployed SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud with integrated Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and SAP Analytics Cloud, then automated sales-commission and freight-allocation processing. Commission processing runs 48% faster and days sales outstanding (DSO) fell 30%.
48%Faster commission processing
30%Lower days sales outstanding
35%Better freight cost accuracyThe Challenge
Manual commission calculations created errors and delays. Freight allocation lacked visibility and distorted product costing, so the true cost of a shipment was never quite clear. Fragmented processes were slowing cash collection at the same time, a combination that quietly erodes margin and working capital in distribution-heavy manufacturing. This is the kind of drag that is invisible line by line and adds up fast at scale. No single commission error or freight misallocation looks like much. Across a business of this size it means margin the company earned but never saw, and cash sitting in receivables instead of the business.
What We Did
We built the operational core on SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, with Electronic Data Interchange and SAP Analytics Cloud integrated into it. One system now carries finance and supply chain, so product cost and freight sit in the same place as the transactions that create them. We automated sales-commission and freight-allocation processes end to end, eliminating manual reconciliation, and added targeted custom developments where the standard process did not fit. We ran the go-live and stayed through hypercare afterwards, until the new processes held on their own.
The Solution
Commission and freight allocation now run automatically inside one operational core. Product costing reflects real freight cost, invoices and collections move faster, and finance no longer reconciles commissions by hand at the end of every cycle.
The Outcome
Commission processing runs 48% faster and freight cost accuracy improved 35%. Days sales outstanding fell 30%, freeing cash for growth, and financial reporting accuracy reached 90.8% on the new core. The quiet margin leak closed. Commissions are calculated once and correctly, freight lands where it belongs in product cost, and cash comes in sooner. Finance spends its month on the business rather than on reconciling its own numbers.
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