Business Challenges

The client had earlier tried to implement a fully integrated JD Edwards 8.0® ERP suite, but without success. With complex, real time dynamic order entry requirements and inventory processes, they found that their legacy system was draining an enormous amount of human and financial capital. The challenge was to have a fully-functional, integrated system running on a single platform. A system that would take the company from a family-run operation to one that complies with tight regulatory norms.

In addition to the regulatory requirements mandated by the new owner, the client was facing a challenge from several well-publicized incidents concerning bacterial contamination in their fresh packaged foods segment. This created an urgent regulatory need to effectively track products from planting, processing, and stocking on store shelves.

Prior to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12®, the client used over eight disparate applications to support its business processes comprising AREV (AR), Open Insight (Sales Order Management, Manufacturing), FAS (Fixed Assets), Spreadsheets (Quality Management).

Solution Highlights

SYSTIME’s comprehensive solution

SYSTIME and the client took a one-team approach towards delivering the solutions. SYSTIME used the SYS-on-TIME™ Methodology for the the client solution. SYS-on-TIME™ provides a standard and consistent way, proven guidelines, templates, how-to and why-to documents, enabling fast execution. As part of the comprehensive upgrade methodology, SYSTIME conducted a Technology Workshop to assist the client in defining its technology and CNC requirements for the solution. This was followed by a Project Strategy workshop for the super users.

Solution highlights

• SYSTIME implemented a full suite of modules including Financials, Manufacturing, Production Scheduling, Procurement, and Call Center Order Management in a record time of 270 days. With a completely integrated environment that could track its products from the farm to the store shelf, the client is now a pioneer using Oracle’s Fusion Middleware’s SOA with a JD Edwards environment-connecting third party Red Prairie, WMS package. With this successful upgrade, the client is now Fusion-ready.

Business Benefits

• Application Maintenance Costs
  • Implementation of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12® allowed SYSTIME to consolidate 12+ modules from more than three vendors. This resulted in a reduction of application maintenance costs by over 45%.
• Production Scheduling Process
  • In the legacy system, the client did not have a managed production scheduling process. It was mostly manual and not scalable. With JD Edwards, the production scheduling system is available in real time.
• Data Replication & Redundancy
  • The legacy footprint involved multiple systems utilizing the same data types. JD Edwards brought in data integrity and single point of truth. It reduced errors by more than five times in data entry and data redundancy in the case of Customer Master and over three times for Item Master. Overall, it resulted in productivity improvements by over 150%.
• Government & Regulatory Compliance
  • By implementing a complete, closed loop manufacturing process, the client can now trace items from field to store shelf, positioning itself ahead of upcoming FDA regulations on food safety.
• Time to Market
  • Implementing JD Edwards with SYSTIME enabled the client to significantly reduce the time to market by over 50%, as compared to any other ERP product or implementation service provider.
• Getting Fusion-ready
  • SYSTIME provided Oracle’s Red Stack Architecture for the client to take advantage of current and future Fusion offerings. This led to the client adopting SOA-based Fusion middleware for real time data integration of the warehouse inventory movements to the order entry system.

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