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November 20, 2008. Fujitsu Presentation at TCFOAUG. Introduction. Venkatash Kovela Associate Practice Director, Fujitsu Consulting, Inc. Venkatash.kovela@us.fujitsu.com
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November 20, 2008 Fujitsu Presentation at TCFOAUG
Introduction • Venkatash Kovela • Associate Practice Director, • Fujitsu Consulting, Inc. • Venkatash.kovela@us.fujitsu.com • Venkat has over 19 years of IT and business experience with 12 years alone on Oracle Applications. He has implemented Oracle in a wide variety of industries. He is well versed in Release 12 capabilities. • Venkat has an extensive background in global Oracle implementations and has conducted more than 10 Oracle financial implementations and upgrades in the U.S.A. and Europe. He has deep experience across breadth of Oracle Applications including financial, distribution, supply chain and manufacturing areas. • Venkat possess extensive project management experience managing large team including offshore. His Project Management experience spans a wide variety of industry for integrated system implementations including CPG, automobile, retail, manufacturing, discrete. • Venkat’s recent project management experience includes a Release 12 global implementation managing the project with over 40 Oracle consultants and 50+ fulltime client members. • Venkat has been recently recognized as a Fujitsu winner in customer representation and maintaining the highest client satisfaction. • Venkat is qualified as a Certified Chartered Accountant (equivalent to a CPA) • Key Customers (Personal Profile): • Gentex Corporation, L&L Products (Automobile) • Welch Foods, Schreiber Foods (CPG) • Waterpik (Healthcare products), Stage Stores (Retail) • Michelin and Unifi (Mfg) • Stryker, Quantum Corporation (Discrete)
Oracle Release 12 Current Implementations
L&L Products Implementation Success Story
L&LProducts Client:L & L Products, Inc., Romeo, MI Description: L & L Products is a supplier of engineered sealing and structural solutions for the worldwide Automotive Industry - Acoustic, Sealing, Anti-Flutter and Structural Materials Industry:Automotive Engagement: Implementing Oracle E-Business Suite R12 with 10g Modules: OracleFinancials, Procure to Pay, Distribution & Logistics, Advanced Supply Chain Planning, Global Order Promising, Oracle PLM, UPK, EDI Duration: December 2007 – October 2008
Key Highlights • Release 12 Implementation • 26 modules footprint • Less than 12 months of implementation cycle • 140+ legacy systems were replaced by Oracle Apps • Maintained least amount of enhancements (Few mandatory Reports were part of the customization) • Customer involvement in the implementation was more than traditional implementations • Introduction of a new environment with huge cultural changes
Modules Footprint Distribution and Logistics EDI / eCommerce Gateway RLM, Release Management OM, Order Management Shipping Execution Financials GL, General Ledger AR, Account Receivables AP, Account Payables FA, Fixed Asset CM, Cash Management Procure to Pay PO, Purchasing Sourcing iSupplier Portal iProcurement OSP (Outside Processing) Material Management and MFG INV, Inventory Management BOM, Bill of Material ENGG, Engineering WIP, Work in Process Discrete Manufacturing QA, Quality CST, Costing WMS, Warehouse Management Systems MSCA, Mobil Supply Chain Applications Tooling Solution Oracle PLM Module Product Lifecycle Management Supply Chain ASCP, Advanced Supply Chain Planning Training UPK Developer/User
Challenges and Lessons Learned • Huge change in SLA footprint (sub-ledger accounting) • MOAC Multi-Org Access Control makes it easier on Global Implementations • Sensitivity of Automobile industry is very high with current customer demand. Functionality of Release Management was widely used to integrate customer daily demands and CUMs • Release 12 has improved on the User Interface (very adaptable) • We had to go through various Release 12 product snags in the beginning of the project. Release 12 RUP4 onward system has stabilized very well and have been less of issues on products side • Big cultural change on the L&L side with the newly carved business processes and overriding many manual and non-integrated solutions • User training was a major challenge with the timeline causing intense post production support stabilization
RCN Corporation is one of the largest facilities-based competitive providers of bundled phone, cable and high speed internet services delivered over its own fiber-optic local network to consumers in the most densely populated markets in the U.S. RCN provides service in the Boston, New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan markets serving over a million customers. Industry Telecom Engagement Upgrade current Oracle Applications 11.0.3 to Realease11i (11.5.10.2). Upgrade database from 8.1.7.4 to 9.2.0.7. Implement select new 11i functionalities. Modules General Ledger, Purchasing, Inventory, Accounts Payable, Project Accounting, Fixed Assets, iExpense, iProcurement and WebADI. Project 5 ½ Months, Time & Material Engagement.