Transcript Huber Engineered Materials

Huber Engineered Materials
Oracle 11i Implementation
March 15, 2002
Marci Moss
Huber Engineered Materials
Largest of 3 divisions of the JM Huber
Corporation.
 Specialty chemicals company with 15
manufacturing facilities in North
America, 1 in India and Brazil and 11 in
Europe.
 HEM was formed through the merging
of several different divisions and
through acquisitions.
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The Result:
Disparate systems and processes.
The Need:
One Global ERP Platform
The Choice:
Oracle 11i
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Project Scope:
– Implement by a combination of Process
Stream, Geography and line of business.
– Process Streams:
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1. Financials North America
2. Procure to Pay North America
3. Order to Cash: PCC, Kaolin, ATH, GCC; 13
locations
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4 Waves of implementation:
– Wave 1: PCC all 3 Processes streams, went live on
August 1, 2001
– Wave 2: Financials and Procure to Pay all North
American locations, went live on October 1, 2001.
– Wave 3: Order to Cash Kaolin, went live on
February 4, 2002.
– Wave 4: Order to Cash ATH and GCC, scheduled
to go live May 1, 2002.
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Other waves to follow but scope is not
finalized.
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Order to Cash:
– Order Management (Order Entry, Pricing,
Shipping Execution)
– Accounts Receivable
– Inventory Management
– Quality
– Integrate Manugistics Transportation
Management to Order Management
– Streamserve integration
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Challenges:
– ‘Make to Order’ process at manufacturing
facilities.
– Implementing OM without fully
implementing OPM
– Manugistics integration, especially export
shipments; ‘bleeding edge.’
– Application Service Provider
– Order Management bugs and patches
– No standard processes
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Successes
– Went live as scheduled
– Order Management is now stable
– Manugistics planning of orders working
well; rating, routing and carrier assignment
– Load tendering to the carriers
– Received well by the end users
– Technical Development
– Reports and documents
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Lessons Learned:
– Processes need to be clearly defined and
communicated to and embraced by the
organization; design ends, testing begins.
– Data is critical; once complete freeze it!!
– ‘End to End’ testing.
– Handing over the keys; Project needs to be
driven by organization.
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Questions?