Success Story 
Centralized Financial Consolidation Platform

01 
Challenge

In a large industrial and energy corporation like Repsol, technological complexity is part of everyday operations. The company operated multiple SAP ERP systems, spread across different subsidiaries, countries, and business units.Every month, during the financial close, a financial consolidation process had to be triggered in each of these ERP systems. This was done in a largely decentralized manner, which led to:

• Manually launching consolidation processes in dozens of SAP systems.
• Monitoring each execution separately.
• Limited global visibility of the overall consolidation status.
• Reactive and time-consuming error detection.
• High operational risk during a critical business process such as monthly closing.

As a result: the consolidation process was fragmented, difficult to control, and hard to scale, with a strong dependency on manual coordination between teams.

02
Objective

The goal of the project was clear:
 
To centralize and simplify the management of all financial consolidations into a single tool, providing real-time visibility, operational control, and fast error handling. The vision was to move from operating “many SAP systems independently” to having one single control point that would allow users to:

• Launch financial consolidations centrally.
• Monitor execution status in real time..
• Detect and manage errors immediately.
• Reduce operational effort and risk during financial close.

03
Solution

To address this challenge, a custom corporate application was designed and developed using standard SAP technologies:

What did the application do?

The solution acted as a central control center for financial consolidations, enabling users to:

• Trigger consolidation processes across all SAP ERP systems from a single interface.
• Visualize the status of each consolidation (pending, running, successfully completed, or failed).
• Automatically update execution statuses as each ERP system completed its consolidation.
• Centralize error management, quickly identifying which system failed, at what stage, and why.
• Ensure full traceability of the financial close process.

All of this was delivered through an intuitive dashboard that significantly reduced friction and improved decision-making during critical closing periods.