Anime News

ISID Delivers Toei ERP Solution
Date: 2/23/2005
According to a Japanese press release out of Toei on Wednesday, the Japanese firm ISID has delivered the backbone system that will supply new contents management functions to the animation house. As previously reported the system being used is the MySAP ERP suite, which includes four individual solutions that support key business processes. The 4 are: mySAP ERP Financials, mySAP ERP Human Capital Management, mySAP ERP Operations, mySAP ERP Corporate Services.
ISID (Dentsu International Information Service Ltd.) is headquartered in Tokyo's Minato Ward with a capital of 8,180,500,000 Yen. They have developed a new key system that mounts animation contents controlling functions with "MySAP ERP" suite. This specific application of this system within Toei is mentioned in the release to be a first for the contents industry of Japan. The rapid expansion of Toei's content properties and media releases such as DVD - Internet Delivery - Pay-Per-View and moves into foreign markets have presented challenges for management on how raise earnings systematically. This new system is supposed to radically change this for the better. ISID consulted with Toei on the solution centered around this backbone system. Contents of each media and classification by countries are managed along with revenue and expenditure. As a result, the user will be able to understand how much to raise earnings with automatic ticketing and accounting of the earnings distribution of contents. All of these functions will be synchronized in real time in-house.

Key Features include:
- Calculating contract structures relating to copyright and the selling agreements for each work.
- Distribution of earnings (distribution of the rental to the right person such as the original writers) is calculated automatically, and it has synchronized with accounting in real time.
- Management accounting of each segment
- Project accounting in which revenue and expenditure of each work is managed


Effect of introduction
- Real-time results summing up &BS/PL output
- Making of Balancing of accounts early stage
- Labor saving of business (automation of distribution money calculation to right person and exclusion of plural input)
- All companies unitary of accounting details information management
Source: Anime News Service