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Oracle Case Study: National University | 2006-12-23 01:00:25 |
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National University, the second-largest private, nonprofit university in California, is dedicated to making lifelong learning opportunities accessible to a diverse population of learners. The university wanted to integrate the IT infrastructure for the university's 16 learning centers, replacing multiple, home-grown legacy systems. The challenge was to improve ability to track and analyze the effectiveness of distinct marketing initiatives and remove process duplication and cut process cycles to boost operational efficiency. National University implemented Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise modules for human capital management, customer relationship management, student administration, and finance, replacing multiple legacy systems with a single platform and integrated set of processes across the university.
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NDS Nutritional Products, Inc. Achieves Visibility and Control to Sustain Rapid Growth | 2006-12-23 01:00:25 |
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NDS Nutritional Products, Inc. is focused on improving the health of individuals through weight loss support programs, sport nutrition products, and general health improvement supplements, including vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and protein powders. The company wanted to enhance decision making through expanded access to business information. The challenge was to create an IT infrastructure to help support and sustain rapid growth and improve supply chain visibility and management. The company implemented Oracle E-Business Suite applications for financial, inventory, purchasing, and sales management to create an integrated IT infrastructure that expands the visibility of critical business data across the enterprise and scales to accommodate rapid growth.
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Nekoosa Coated Products Implements E-Business Infrastructure in Four Weeks | 2006-12-23 01:00:25 |
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Nekoosa Coated Products is part of the Dunsirn Partners, LLC group of companies. The company wanted to build a new Oracle infrastructure from scratch in 30 days following the sale of the company to Dunsirn Partners. The challenge was to gain the ability to add functionality moving forward and ensure continued visibility of critical business information across the organization. Nekoosa Coated Products deployed Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition on Linux to create a cost-effective IT infrastructure that provides visibility of critical business information across the organization for more informed and agile decision-making capabilities.
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Millipore Goes Global With Oracle | 2006-12-23 01:00:25 |
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With 4,500 employees on four continents, the Massachusetts-based company provides technologies, tools and services for the development and production of new therapeutic drugs. To stay on top of demand - and stay profitable - Millipore has been steadily integrating and streamlining its global operations. Among other initiatives, the company enlisted Oracle technology and applications to establish a unified financial and communications system worldwide, automate product ordering and distribution, and create more effective ways for managing and motivating its global workforce.
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Midea Group Streamlines Manufacturing Workflows | 2006-12-23 01:00:25 |
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The Environmental Electrical Appliances division of Midea Group is responsible for research and development, manufacturing, sales, and service for various ventilation and environmental treatment products. The division wanted to improve collaboration between manufacturing facilities while allowing them to continue operating independently. The challenge was to standardize and streamline manufacturing processes and ensure the efficient and timely delivery of information from production centers. The company engaged Oracle Partner SIE Consulting to implement a new business management platform developed on a range of Oracle E-Business Suite applications.
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Mid-America Door Company Automates and Streamlines Supply Chain Operations to Maximize Profitability | 2006-12-23 01:00:25 |
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Mid-America Door Company was founded in 1991. The company wanted to update their legacy IT environment to accommodate rapid growth and ensure future scalability. They wanted to consolidate and automate processes to improve operational efficiency and accommodate a wide range of pricing models and customizations. The challenge was to improve the productivity and effectiveness of the sales force. Mid-America Door Company implemented Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Supply Chain Management integrated with Financial Management applications to improve operational efficiency, productivity, and IT scalability across sales and manufacturing.
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Organon Pakistan Achieves Financial Integrity With Help From Jaffer Consulting | 2006-12-22 01:00:22 |
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Organon - with shared head offices in Roseland, NJ, U.S., and Oss, The Netherlands - creates, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines that improve the health and quality of human life. Organon Pakistan maintains its competitive advantage by combining the focus and entrepreneurial spirit of a decentralized business unit with the scale and power of a corporate center that provides access to global capital markets, managerial talent, and best practice management processes. The company implemented a range of Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition applications as the basis of a new business management platform. It hired Oracle Certified Partner Jaffer Brothers (Private) Limited to deploy the solution, a process that took just 40 days to complete.
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Nufarm S.A. Enhances Organizational Structure, Aids Growth | 2006-12-22 01:00:22 |
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Nufarm S.A., based in Argentina, belongs to the Nufarm Limited group, an Australian-based international company that specializes in crop protection. The company wanted to find a financial tool to enhance business growth. The challenge was to improve efficiency of managing orders, inventory statements, and handling product deliveries according to best accounting and administrative practices. The company wanted to review corporate processes, adapting them to the new system to be implemented. Nufarm S.A. replaced Excel with Oracle Financials, boosting efficiency in managing orders, inventory statements, and product deliveries and installed Oracle Order Management, which increased invoice processing by 50%.
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Oracle Case Study: QuadraMed | 2006-12-14 01:00:24 |
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As a newly listed public company, QuadraMed, Inc., needed to get up and running quickly on a solution for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. With a small internal audit group and limited resources, QuadraMed also wanted a cost-effective solution that would enforce long-term compliance by automating the entire process and pushing accountability down to business process owners. QuadraMed standardized on Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management, leveraging the internal controls and best practices built into the applications to prepare for listing on the American Stock Exchange and ongoing compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. An early filer, QuadraMed also deployed PeopleSoft Enterprise Internal Controls Enforcer to meet its year-end deadline for Section 404 compliance.
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Portman Building Society Standardizes Financial Management and Reporting to Boost Performance | 2006-12-14 01:00:24 |
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With more than 1.8 million members and over 140 branches, Portman Building Society is the U.K.'s third largest building society. Portman wanted to streamline and simplify financial management, reporting, and compliance across Portman and its acquired subsidiaries. The company wanted to improve business analysis and performance monitoring and standardize and automate purchasing across the society, consolidate processes, and reduce administration costs. Portman consolidated financial management on Oracle Financials, replacing four general ledgers and spreadsheet-based systems used by the smaller subsidiaries with a single general ledger and created a suite of reports using Oracle Discoverer to allow managers to explore transactional information in Oracle Cash Management and spot anomalies, such as overdue payments.
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