CASE STUDY 路 GENEL ENERGY
Genel Energy’s P2P system had been bolted onto its finance platform as an afterthought, and it showed: workarounds, poor spend control, and a growing compliance burden. Working with TSM, Genel replaced it with a secure, cloud-based Source-to-Pay platform, without disrupting the finance system underneath it.
SECURE MIDDLEWARE, NO FINANCE WEBSERVICES EXPOSED TO CLOUD
THE CHALLENGE
Genel’s existing P2P solution had been implemented as an add-on to its finance system. It wasn’t fit for purpose, and users had learned to work around it rather than through it, resulting in poor spend control across the business.
Genel invited TSM in as Source-to-Pay, integration and finance system specialists to replace the P2P functionality with a world-class, cloud-based solution, without disrupting the finance system it needed to sit alongside.
The solution had to work for non-technical users in remote locations, including staff based at oil wellheads with little access to finance or procurement support, while distinguishing addressable from non-addressable spend and complying with Turkish finance rules across multiple charts of accounts in a single on-premise ERP instance.
As design workshops progressed, it became clear supplier risk and contract adoption were just as urgent as the original P2P problem. An MVP project became a full, phase-one Source-to-Pay rollout.
THE SOLUTION
An agile delivery approach and a highly collaborative project team meant every new requirement was discussed, and challenged where needed, before it was added to scope. The full S2P go-live landed only a few weeks after the original, narrower P2P target date.
PHASE 1 路 S2P & SECURE INTEGRATION
The scope expanded to include Supplier Risk and Performance Management, Contract Lifecycle Management, Sourcing, and Purchase-to-Pay with AP automation, integrated with Genel’s Infor SunSystems finance solution in Turkey. Because externally exposing finance webservices to the cloud wasn’t acceptable to Genel’s security team, TSM built the integration through an on-premise, SQL-based middleware layer instead.
PHASE 2 路 RISK, SIGNATURES & SUPPLIER PORTAL
A Dun & Bradstreet connector automated sanctions checks at onboarding, on a recurring basis, and before every authorised order, extended to cover suppliers’ banks as well as the suppliers themselves. Physical signatures were replaced by Ivalua’s secure e-signatures and audit trails, with DocuSign reserved only for supplier-side contract signatures. Suppliers were brought onto the support portal to confirm orders, raise advance shipping notices and flip orders into invoices.
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