Enterprise · High-Tech

Product Costing & Inventory Architecture for Google's Hardware Business

Across a 39-month engagement delivered with Deloitte, Enterprise Solutions Lab architected SAP S/4HANA product costing and inventory accounting for Google's Nest and Pixel hardware operations — integrating SAP with Google Cloud Platform for real-time transaction capture, landed-cost visibility, and product traceability across 3PLs and global distribution centers.

Project Overview

Google's high-volume hardware business needed finance architecture that could keep pace with global logistics — contract manufacturing, serialized products, forward and reverse flows, and multi-year data-center builds. ESL led the product costing and inventory accounting workstreams end to end, from blueprint through post-go-live margin analysis.

Real-Time Landed Cost

Integrated SAP inventory accounting with GCP-based systems for real-time transaction capture and landed-cost visibility across 3PLs and global DCs.

Asset Recapitalization Framework

Designed and deployed a first-of-its-kind framework to track and revalue assets across dynamic usage and ownership models.

Oracle-to-SAP Blueprint

Served as program lead for the strategic transformation from Oracle to SAP Cloud, aligning inventory, asset, and revenue processes across business towers.

How We Did It

Serialized Cost Logic

Custom cost-split logic for serialized products and forward/reverse flows — enabling real-time COGS posting, margin analysis, and traceability from procurement through returns.

Results Analysis for Long-Cycle Builds

Configured Results Analysis for multi-year server and data-center assembly projects, enabling accurate WIP tracking and compliant cost deferral.

Invoice Automation at Scale

Linked SAP with OpenText VIM and HighRadius for high-volume vendor and subcontractor transactions across contract manufacturers.

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