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Customer Profile

Detailed overview of the upgrade project of financial systems by McKee Foods Corporation. Covers challenges faced, team structure, timeline, and future plans. Insights shared by David Griffin, presented by DBA, McKee Foods Corporation.

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Customer Profile

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  1. Customer Profile Presented By: David Griffin, DBA McKee Foods Corporation

  2. McKee Foods CorporationBackground • Founded by OD and Ruth McKee in 1934 • First bakery to produce individually wrapped cakes in a multipack carton • Little Debbie produces 75 varieties of snack cakes • Annual sales are approximately $930M • Five production facilities in three states

  3. Pre 11i Environment • HP K460 2GM, 3 processors, 140G disk space • 10.7 SC • Modules • General Ledger • Fixed Assets • Account Payables • Project Accounting • Eight years of historical data • Integrated with GEMMS application

  4. Financials History • Financials implemented in 1994 • Upgraded to 10.7 SC in 1997 • Project Accounting implemented in 1998 • Integrated with GEMMS in October 1999

  5. Project Timeline • Upgrade Assessment October 2001 -Boss Corporation & O’Reilly & Associates • Request for Proposal January 2002 • Project began February 4, 2002 • Moved to new server, upgrade OS and database on April 19, 2002 • Went live on 11i on May 1, 2002

  6. McKee Implementation Team • McKee – Technical Team Application Administrator Database Administrator Developer (2)

  7. Consulting Team • Deloitte Consulting • Project Manager • Functional Lead • Technical Lead • Database Administrator • Developer(4) • Oracle Consulting • Developers(2)

  8. Project Challenges • Hardware had not been ordered • Needed to close one period on 11i prior to year-end • Accounting changes implemented with year-end • GEMMS was not upgrading to OPM

  9. Test Environments • 10.7 on HPUX 11.0 • 10.7 on HPUX 11.0 and ORACLE 8.1.7.3 • Oracle Applications 11.5.5

  10. Test – Test and More Test • Each environment had to be tested • Decided to upgrade OS and Database together

  11. Status Meeting • Met weekly to discuss status and issues • Kept meetings to an hour or less • Issues requiring further discussion scheduled separately

  12. Lessons Learned • Status Meetings critical to success of project • Attendance at status meetings is a priority

  13. Future Plans • Gemms upgrading to OPM 11i • Maximo implementation w/ ORACLE invoicing • Implement purchasing • Web Reporting

  14. Questions & Answers

  15. Contact Me David GriffinMcKee Foods Corporationdavid_griffin@mckee.com(423) 238-7111 ext. 2346

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