Title: Analog Devices BV Shared Services Centre
1Analog Devices BVShared Services Centre
2Agenda
- Background ADI
- Background - SSC
- Services provided
- Characteristics of ADBV SSC
- Questions
3 Background - ADI
4Analog Devices - Background
- Founded 1965, Limerick 1976
- Headquarters in Boston
- Semi-conductor company, producing intergrated
circuits - ADIs circuits - High performance Analog,
Mixed-Signal and Digital Signal Processing ICs. - World Wide employees 9,000, Limerick 1,300
5Background Contd
- Manufacturing facilities Boston, Santa Clara,
Greensboro, Limerick, and Philippines - Design Centres US, Limerick, UK, Denmark,
India, China, Spain - Sales offices throughout US, Europe, Far East
- ADIs Product portfolio over 10,000
- ADIs Customers over 60,000
- Sales FY 05 2.6b
6ADI at a GLANCEHigh Performance Analog and DSP
Wireless Everything
Networking Equipment
Digital Imaging
High-Speed Internet Connections
Personal Computers
Medical Instrumentation
Industrial
Digital Entertainment
Automotive
Aerospace
7Analog Devices Inc
8ANALOG DEVICES B.V. - LIMERICK
- Established 1976
- Approx. 1250 Employees
- Manufacturing x 800
- Product Line x 450
- Main Functions at Limerick Site
- Marketing
- Design
- Test Development
- Wafer Fabrication
- Wafer Sort (Probe)
- Customer Service / Planning
- Quality
Product Line
9 Background - Shared Services
10SSC brief history
- IFSC company set up in 1995
- Initially began providing centralised treasury
services - Broadened to include transaction processing in
1999 - Additional headcount in Limerick as more services
and level increased from 1999 to 2003 - Currently 5 people in SSC
11SSC brief history
- Europe (pre 1995)
- 9 countries
- 10 physical locations
- Each with own inventory, receivables
- 32 Finance staff
- Financial Controller in each country
- Different Finance system
- Different banking processes / systems
12SSC brief history
- Europe (today)
- 11 countries
- 19 physical locations
- No inventory or receivables
- 8 Finance staff at local sites not qualified
accountants - 5 Finance staff at Limerick 3 qualified
accountants and 2 support staff - SAP world wide finance system
- Common banking process and system
13European Finance Centre - Overview
14 Services provided by SSC
15Accounts Payable
- Approx 1.2b worth of invoices processed per
annum - Covers local site, Subcontractors and European
Sales offices - Procedure
- Invoice to Payables
- Match on SAP
- 3 way match invoice to Purchase Order and Goods
Received - Non receipt goods for sign-off (Europe)
- Mismatches and queries
- Monthly payment to vendor account using EDI
common to all Euro countries now - Travel Expense Processing Reimbursement
16European Accounting
- 11 Sales Offices
- Local admin/finance person
- Accounting
- Month end close co-ordination
- Journals
- 3 day time-line
- Fixed Asset Accounting
- Quarter end schedules
- Accruals/Prepayments
- Inter-company reconciliations
- Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Revenue commission recognition
- Y/E Financial Statements
- Audit (both local statutory audit and internal
audit program) - Statutory Reporting
- Tax
- VAT
17Treasury and Receivables
- Treasury
- FX exposure management
- Cash balance management
- Investments
- Inter Company loans
- Optimise short term cash holding for all of
Europe - Cash flows
- Tax
- Annual returns
- VAT management
- Compliance
- Accounts Receivable (ROW)
- Allocation of balance received
- Credit control
- Reporting
18Systems
- SAP
- All Financial Accounting, payables and
receivables - Payroll All different throughout Europe
- Manufacturing Promis
- Cost Accounting Impact
- Data Warehouse application and subsystems
- Sales, Bookings, Margin analysis
- Fidelity employee administration
- Excel etc
19 Characteristics of ADBV -SSC
20Characteristics of ADBV SSC
- SSC providing Treasury, Payables, Fixed Assets,
TE, Accounting, Tax, Intercompany accounting,
Mth end Closing entries and elimination
21Characteristics of ADBV SSC
- SSC providing Treasury, Payables, Fixed Assets,
TE, Accounting, Tax, Intercompany accounting,
Mth end Closing entries and elimination - Level of service depends on country and finance
resources
22Characteristics of ADBV SSC
- SSC providing Treasury, Payables, Fixed Assets,
TE, Accounting, Tax, Intercompany accounting,
Mth end Closing entries and elimination - Level of service depends on country and finance
resources - US company, English bus. language - no language
skills
23Characteristics of ADBV SSC
- SSC providing Treasury, Payables, Fixed Assets,
TE, Accounting, Tax, Intercompany accounting,
Mth end Closing entries and elimination - Level of service depends on country and finance
resources - US company, English bus. language - no language
skills - At remote sites, Admin person coordinates
invoices etc.
24Characteristics of ADBV SSC
- SSC providing Treasury, Payables, Fixed Assets,
TE, Accounting, Tax, Intercompany accounting,
Mth end Closing entries and elimination - Level of service depends on country and finance
resources - US company, English bus. language - no language
skills - At remote sites, Admin person coordinates
invoices etc. - Analog has Finance Business Partners to support
local Sales and Design sites (cost control,
budgeting, etc.)
25Characteristics of ADBV SSC
- Payroll, vat, local taxes left local (though
current project to move payroll to one Global WW
system in 2007)
26Characteristics of ADBV SSC
- Payroll, vat, local taxes left local (though
current project to move payroll to one Global WW
system in 2007) - Preparation of statutory accounts local and SSC
27Characteristics of ADBV SSC
- Payroll, vat, local taxes left local (though
current project to move payroll to one Global WW
system in 2007) - Preparation of statutory accounts local and SSC
- Reporting structure local finance report to
Euro Fin Cent Mgr located in Limerick
28Characteristics of ADBV SSC
- Payroll, vat, local taxes left local (though
current project to move payroll to one Global WW
system in 2007) - Preparation of statutory accounts local and SSC
- Reporting structure local finance report to
Euro Fin Cent Mgr located in Limerick - Review and responsibility for month end accounts
rests with Euro Fin Cent Mgr
29Benefits to ADI
- Reduced headcount and costs
30Benefits to ADI
- Reduced headcount and costs
- Centralised point for queries (Lmk closer to
Boston than Berlin)
31Benefits to ADI
- Reduced headcount and costs
- Centralised point for queries (Lmk closer to
Boston than Berlin) - Consistency throughout Europe
32Benefits to ADI
- Reduced headcount and costs
- Centralised point for queries (Lmk closer to
Boston than Berlin) - Consistency throughout Europe
- Implementing change more effective and
efficient
33Benefits to ADI
- Reduced headcount and costs
- Centralised point for queries (Lmk closer to
Boston than Berlin) - Consistency throughout Europe
- Implementing change more effective and
efficient - Common banking systems
34Benefits to ADI
- Reduced headcount and costs
- Centralised point for queries (Lmk closer to
Boston than Berlin) - Consistency throughout Europe
- Implementing change more effective and
efficient - Common banking systems
- Benefits for SOX, audit, other reporting
35Benefits to ADI
- Reduced headcount and costs
- Centralised point for queries (Lmk closer to
Boston than Berlin) - Consistency throughout Europe
- Implementing change more effective and
efficient - Common banking systems
- Benefits for SOX, audit, other reporting
- Facilitated ADI 4 day close
36 Thanks and Questions????