British DVLA SAP Implementation

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British DVLA SAP Implementation

• Mohamed Mansour

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Contents
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Agency Background
Existing Environment
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Problem Statement
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Objective
Solutions Implemented
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Implementation Highlights
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Key Benefits
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Agency Background

• The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)
  facilitates road safety and general law
  enforcement in the United Kingdom by maintaining
  registers of drivers and vehicles and by
  collecting vehicle excise duty (automobile tax).

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Agency Background

• An executive agency of the British governments
  Department for Transport
• DVLA employs more than 7,000 people nationwide
• Headquartered in Swansea, Wales
• 40 satellite offices

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Existing Environment

• Outdated financial system
• 400 users
• Diverse legacy system landscape

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Problem Statement

• Increased customer and stakeholder expectations
• An increasingly complex regulatory environment
  (European legislation)
• Existing financial system is unable to meet
  business needs which led to
• proliferation of spreadsheets
• consequent fragmentation of information

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Objective

• Strategically implement an integrated ERP
  solution to replace the existing financial system
  that was no longer able to meet business needs
• Strong emphasis on transparency, ensuring
  client/contractor responsibilities were clear, in
  order to minimize risks for DVLA

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Solutions Implemented

• Implementing company PwC (now IBM Business
  Consulting Services)
• Hardware HP servers with clustered EMC SAN
  architecture
• O/S HP UX 11i
• mySAP ERP solutions for financials and human
  capital management
• SAP e-Procurement
• SAP Business Intelligence
• SAP Enterprise Portal

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Implementation Highlights

• Moving from a user base of 400 to nearly 7,000
• Comprehensive change management program
• 60 million tax discs
• Diverse range of hardware (80 builds)
• Implemented in 11 months

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Key Benefits

• One consistent source of data
• One of the leading government pilot sites for
  e-auctions

Legacy mySAP
Monthly Accounts 10th of the next month 2nd of the next month
Financial Management Accounts 21st of the next month 6th of the next month
Employees Expenses 4 to 6 weeks Daily basis
Contract Prices 100 75 to 80
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Thank You!
www.dvla.gov.uk