Last July, Telefónica joined its financial and logistics systens of its subsidiaries Telefónica from Argentina and Colombia and Movistar from Chile. In January this year, it added Movistar from Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and Panama, that are currently being established.
Besides moving to last version of German ERP, it replaced systems having been used for a unique and new version of business model, removing Oracle Financial used by subsidiaries from the Northern countries of the region, and taking logistics systems of different brands to SAP.
"A 90% of the new system is common to all countries and remaining 10% required adaptations to legal and tax standards of each country", outlined José Antonio Fernández Ignacio, Telecommunication Market Director for Latin America of Indra, company in charge of tasks, that holds one million people working for Telefónica in the whole region.
The logistics system for mobiles was developed by Indra and for fixed telephony by Accenture. Telefónica de España does not use these same resources, but it might adopt them soon later on.