SandPoint’s BPC consultant has done an awesome job working through issues around the clock for AG. I couldn’t be happier with the level of support we’ve got over the past week of stress!
– Manager of financial consolidations
SandPoint was instrumental in helping Haworth implement a successful consolidation and planning solution with SAP BPC 11.0. Their functional and technical ‘know-how’ helped us improve our consolidations and planning processes and meet our targeted deliverables on time and under budget. We appreciated SandPoint’s knowledge transfer and training approach as they helped Haworth become self-sufficient in managing and supporting BPC 11.0 for the future. SandPoint has been a great partner to work with!
I would like to thank SandPoint – for finding and fixing the ‘show-stopper’ issue within our environment’s Finance model in SAP BPC 10.1, and on Monday (Labor Day) confirming the functionality of the environment post migration.
SandPoint has been a great implementation partner. Our lead SandPoint consultant is a CPA and has worked at BlackLine, and brought a lot of innovative ideas on how to optimize the system and tailor it to Discovery’s needs.
Training was so important – SandPoint sat with us and co-developed reports and tested the system throughout the entire project.
It was great to have a CPA/BPC expert manage our project and upgrade. BPC 10.0 is great – the performance is tremendous and our users are excited about the new tool. We look forward to building future financial solutions with SandPoint Consulting.
The SAP Business Planning and Consolidation solution is a strategic solution for Cooper Standard. It has enabled us to significantly improve our sales planning and forecasting process and timing. We are now able to spend significantly more time analyzing the impact of demand, currency, and commercial changes to our plan, as opposed to simply creating the plan.
I have used SandPoint Consulting at two companies now. I chose SandPoint most recently for AMCOR because they have the best BPC knowledge of anyone I know. And once again, they fulfilled my requirements and met my budget with quality work that was on time.
Planning and design is a good experience with SandPoint – they listened to my needs, consulted on the best solution and outlined what’s needed. Then SandPoint became part of my team and literally worked 5 days a week in a cubicle just outside my office, surrounded by my staff. If there were questions, voila! they were right there; I appreciated the open communication policy.
SandPoint’s support is impressive and another key reason I work with them. I have my consultants’ cell phone numbers and if I have an issue, such as a changed business process, they jump right on it. They provide assistance whenever help is needed and I appreciate how they bend over backwards to help me.
We chose SandPoint Consulting to partner with us to help select and implement the best available solution. The professionals at SandPoint were an invaluable resource to us through our software selection process and helped us successfully implement our new system on a very aggressive time frame and within budget.
Over my career I’ve had a lot of experience working with different consulting groups including Accenture, but now I choose to work with SandPoint Consulting because they provide a personalized approach.
SandPoint is simply a smarter choice when compared to the gigantic firms. I don’t like how big firms have sent me recent college graduates without much field experience to learn on my engagement at full cost, as if they’re reading a script from a text book, instead of interpreting true business needs. Conversely, I appreciate SandPoint’s consulting approach where they bring me in the loop on the solution. They offered me several options to achieve the end result with the pros and cons of each and offered an opinion on the best way to proceed. SandPoint made sure the solution would match my resources.
I also don’t like the model huge firms employ where they throw lots of bodies at you at exorbitant rates. During my search for a new consultant, when I finally found SandPoint, the one big firm I was also considering said my project required a project manager, a project lead, two junior consultants and some offshore work in either India or China. It seemed like gross overkill. I also was also less than impressed when they politely denied my request to review the team’s resumes because it’s “not their practice”. After a little digging, I found that one of the two junior consultants was new and I’d be essentially paying to train him on my job. Regarding this same project, I chose to go with SandPoint after talking with their previous customers. With SandPoint’s one, solid consultant I was able to successfully achieve the same project scope within a tight deadline. The project came in on time and within budget; and I was very happy with the quality.
Another reason I choose SandPoint is the people. I like that they’re easy to talk to and work with. They’re engaged through the whole process so that’s important.
SandPoint knows what they’re talking about both with accounting and the BPC tool. When I joined Otter Tail, there was a different BPC consultant working here. They didn’t understand my user group very well and they were building something too complex to effectively use. I replaced them with SandPoint who came in, tore down the previous work and rebuilt a user-friendly solution that I was happy with.
SandPoint’s training is very good. They developed custom training manuals for each of my three user levels made up of base-level users, power users, and administrators. I also find SandPoint’s training webinars helpful.
SandPoint is my first stop when I need help. While I maintain a support contract with SAP, I go to SandPoint first because they understand how my system was designed and return answers faster.
I have used SandPoint both at AAA-Michigan and now at Otter Tail Corporation. With my reputation on the line, I don’t say it lightly that I highly recommend SandPoint Consulting.