Oracle Hyperion Planning &

Budgeting ,Capital Asset

Planning & Workforce
Planning Implementation at
Zain Telecom, Kuwait

Background
Zain is a leading mobile telecommunications provider in the Middle East and
North Africa. It was started in 1983 in Kuwait, as Mobile Telecommunications
Company (MTC), the regions first mobile operator, and commencing with the
initiation of our expansion strategy in 2003, it grew rapidly in both the Middle
East and Africa through the acquisition of several mobile operators across the
region.
In 2008, Zain became the 4th largest mobile operator in the world in terms of
geographical presence, with operations in 15 African countries and 7 in the
Middle East with over 6,000 employees providing a comprehensive range of
market-leading mobile voice and data services to a base of over 42.7 million
active customers as of 31 December, 2012
Name : Walid Gaddouch
Email Id :Walid.Gaddouch@zain.com
Contact No : +965 96973338 ; +965
24641432

Number of Employees : 1100+

Number of Users : 40+

Project Outline

Operating System : Windows

Server 2008R2
Virtual Machines 6 Cores @3
GHz. 3 Node Architecture
Project Kick Off Date : 10-July 2013
Project Go Live Date : 09-March 2014

Modules Implemented
Oracle Hyperion Planning &
Budgeting
Oracle Capital Asset Planning
Oracle Workforce Planning

Resource Details
Evosys Resource Details
Project Manager : 1
Functional Consultant : 3
Technical Consultant : 1

Client Resource Details

Project Manager : 1

Business Needs
Zain is spread over in 8 countries and in an such a larger organization size control
becomes very critical as well as a difficult task for the management. In order to
implement the control over the organization it has to have an efficient system for
planning.
Inspite of being a good tool for calculations, MS Excel lacks plenty of features
which are required by any organization. Some of the examples of these lacking are
: a consolidated Database, Security etc. thus Oracle Planning & Budgeting comes
in to picture
There was no effective version control in the existing system to manage the
number of iterations happening before final draft of budget
Zain were having no proper organizational Hierarchy for the purpose of approval
of various budgeting segments like Manpower or Operating expense

Business Needs Contd

Standardization is also one of the major hurdles when the organization is

operating in more than one geography.

Different COA structure across Operating Cost - Mapping of these structures is
extremely necessary to derive consolidated view of the financials.
Different Ledger Currency across Opting Cost - Converting figures to single
reporting currency with a rate which is entered manually.

Challenges
There were many Models to be developed like Revenue, Cost of Sale, Operating Expense,
Device Budgeting, Business Plan which made the project very complex.

Zain project is the 1st Project in Telecom Sector for Evosys and therefore domain knowledge
was one of the major challenges.

Over and above the routine budgeting of the client needed all the financial statements
including Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement not only for Actual
but also for Budget data.

Revenue and Cost of Sale are driver based budgeting which goes very much in detail.

Solutions

All the versions which went through the approval cycles are stored in the database
and can be visited at any point of time

Data security can be assured with respect to visibility of data of one entity or
department to the other entity or the department
Approval workflow is taken care of in particular

Business Benefits
Security Structure is built in such a way that individual Operating Cost can see
only their data. Consolidated picture is available at the Zain Group level.
The system is integrated with the transaction system so as to remove any

manual intervention while transferring the actual data from ERP to HPB or
transferring the budget data from HPB to ERP.

All the reports made available in the Hyperion financial reporting Studio which
are directly linked with database and refreshable.
Ad Hoc Analysis of Budget and Actual data and management reports with user

friendly interface of MS Excel.

Various Analytical reports can be created very easily and as per the
requirements of the user

Value Addition by Evosys

Drastic Reduction in time for Budgeting cycle by 3-4 weeks
Radical reduction in cost of budgeting due to automated Budgeting process

Individual and Consolidated Budget with the actual data along with variance
analysis time readily available at any time

Improved overall profitability through more effective workforce cost

control. Managers can understand how to optimize staffing levels to ensure
satisfactory delivery of service while maintaining the lowest effective

headcount.
Long term Planning of Revenues and Costs can be effectively done keeping
in view the actual data and the trends and the steps for improving
profitability can be taken at the right moment well in advance.

Questions?

Thank You
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