ERP & Supply Chain Service
IWhether you're implementing, upgrading, or expanding your Enterprise
resource planning system - or looking to optimize your supply chain -
the highly skilled consultants at HP Services have the methodologies and
know-how to meet your needs on-time and on-budget.
HP implementation teams draw on our first-hand experience with SAP
deployments throughout our own organization, in addition to our work
with Enterprises around the world as a SAP Global Services Provider, to
bring you solutions based on proven best practices and methodologies.
We offer world-class supply chain process consulting, application
implementation, and IT infrastructure services. Our offerings encompass
conventional SAP implementations, design and deployment of solutions in
the rapidly evolving Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) arena, SAP
Enterprise portals, and supply chain management and optimization
solutions. All of our services and solutions are designed to help you
increase profitability, reduce lead times and costs, focus on your core
competencies, and enhance your ability to collaborate with partners and
customers.
ERP & Supply Chain consulting with a difference
Take advantage of HP's special strengths in ERP and supply chain
optimization:
One-stop shopping for end-to-end solutions that integrate
high-performance platforms, HP and partner infrastructure and
application software, consulting and integration services, and support
A strategic and collaborative relationship as an SAP Global Services
Partner
A track record of working with clients in diverse industries: more than
half of all SAP installations worldwide are on HP systems\
First-hand experience with SAP R/3 consolidation and APO within HP
Annual recipient of SAP's Award of Excellence since its inception in
1995
A proven, best practices-based "rapid" methodology to analyze, build,
integrate, and evolve solutions
Global reach with offices in 160 countries
A uniquely collaborative approach that fosters efficient knowledge
transfer between our people
ERP Software Reins in Information From Across Your Plant
Your enterprise is part of a supply chain, or maybe a demand chain, and
there are companies, or maybe enterprises, ready to sell you an
enterprise resource planning system that will help you label everything
your organization does with spiffy new buzzwords.
If you're involved in your organization's information technology
systems, you've heard about Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
These are huge, all-in-one systems that promise to handle disparate
processes that at one time required their own computer systems: sales
ordering, general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, cost
management, payroll (human resources planning), inventory, logistics,
purchasing, material planning, shop floor data collection and
management, and production.
ERP is one of the hottest software products in the large business market
today. Independent studies put the overall market in 1998 at about US
$16.7 billion, up an impressive 39 percent from a year earlier.
AMR Research of Boston, a leading industry expert firm, predicts that
the total opportunity for ERP, including the software, installation and
services required to make it work, could be as high as US $66.6 billion
by 2003.
The ERP field today is led by some of the world's biggest software
companies: Oracle (the world's second-largest software firm after
Microsoft), SAP, Baan, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and SSA might sound
familiar to most readers.
ERP promises not only to automate all your back office business
procedures, it also offers electronic commerce. If you want to sell over
the Internet, ERP vendors are ready for you.
And with the Y2K problem just around the corner, you might be looking to
upgrade your system. ERP is definitely worth close consideration.
What can ERP do for you?
Integrating sales, order desk, inventory control, finance, and
management reporting has significant benefits, not the least of which is
from the information technology manager's perspective. There's now only
one computer system to maintain and to upgrade periodically, which saves
a lot of time and money. Implementing an ERP system often replaces
several older computer systems, which can also boost computer
productivity. With only one system, you can also reduce training costs.
If your current computer system isn't ready for the year 2000, ERP can
nicely sidestep that issue as most ERP vendors made sure their products
were ready for the millennium about two years ago.
A more significant benefit for most companies is the improved use of
their information technology. ERP systems present better information in
a more timely manner to the people who need it. Sales reps can check
inventory levels and prices before committing to deadlines; managers can
check margins before offering special deals.
Having a single source of data for everything that happens in an
enterprise also makes the whole organization more flexible; companies
can ramp up production more quickly, or can shift what they're making or
where they're making it more readily.
ERP systems can also make employees, whether in customer service or
production, more productive. ERP systems can reduce turnaround or order
fulfillment time and increase accuracy in fulfilling customer orders.
For cash savings, ERP systems can help reduce inventory costs through
improved stock tracking.
Case in point: Walbar
Last year, Walbar, a manufacturer of turbine blades and other parts for
airplane engines, replaced its business application system with an ERP
system from JD Edwards.
Walbar is a division of Coltec Industries, Inc., and has three locations
in the United States and one in Mississauga, Canada. The company took
more than 18 months to select a system, install it and train its
employees. The system has been "live" since May, 1999. Since Walbar
chose to phase in the implementation, as of our press time the company
had not yet started using all the modules, but started with the core:
inventory control, financials, product data management, bills of
materials, routing, work centre, shop floor management and workflow.
The total cost for the implementation at the Mississauga plant,
including the IBM AS/400 computer, servers, new IBM workstations,
software, installation and training was about US $1 million.
"It's early to say what the benefits are, but I have definite
expectations about reducing inventory, which will free up a significant
amount of cash," says Peter Mammone, director of finance at the
Mississauga location. "Another real benefit will be the ability to
better plan for the severe cyclical nature of the airplane engine
business."
Beyond that, Mammone sees real improvements in improved customer
service; quicker and more accurate delivery of customer orders through
better materials planning and order tracking. In Mammone's industry,
mistakes are very costly, as there are only about a dozen manufacturers
of airplane engines in the world. He says you can't afford to annoy any
of them.
One key benefit of ERP systems is the way it integrates a company's flow
of information. Using an ERP system, the sales, purchasing, production,
inventory control and accounting departments all use the same
information. One set of data is used throughout the company to make sure
customers get what they want when they want it, and that the whole thing
is profitable for the company.
Centralizing this information and presenting it consistently can also
improve planning and decision making.
To illustrate the value of ERP in action, take a look at Xerox Corp.,
which installed an Oracle ERP system in three distribution locations
across the United States. Each centre produces digital cpiers and
printers, and ships them to customers.
When an order comes in, Oracle's Release 10.7 ERP system picks the
appropriate stock from the inventory, which is all identified with bar
codes. Barcode readers from Intermec track products and communicate with
the ERP system via wireless transmission; middleware from Connectware
translates the barcode data from Intermec into Oracle's language.
The benefits include a process that has completely eliminated certain
shipping forms, and provided a process to validate the integrity of the
picking process, says Pete Shea, a Xerox application project manager.
"Compared to the previous system of manually selecting products and
checking their inventory numbers, the new system is faster and more
accurate," says Shea.
Oracle Supply Chain Management
Oracle, the Information Company, enables information-driven supply
chains, allowing companies to build and operate world-class supply
chains for profitable growth. With Oracle supply chain solutions,
companies can sense, shape and respond effectively to demand, make
empowered decisions with intelligent analytics, build optimized global,
supply networks for maximum resiliency, and support lean manufacturing
and supply chain execution globally—all with end-to-end global
visibility and real-time exception management.
Today leading companies of all sizes and across all industries are
achieving Supply chain excellence, driving innovation and minimizing
risk with Oracle Supply Chain Management. Only Oracle provides supply
chain solutions that are complete, best in class, and flexible with the
right processes, practices, and performance all bundled around an
industry-leading, standards-based Information Architecture.
Best Supply Chain Management System
Best Supply Chain Management System" Intelligent Enterprise 2007
Readers' Choice Awards: Oracle has won in five categories including:
Best Supply Chain Management System, Best CRM Suite, Best ERP Software,
Best Database Management System, and Best Customer Data Integration
Software.
"Best Supply Chain Software Solution Provider" Supply Chain Excellence
Awards organized by SCMLogistics World 2006 - Singapore:. The only
pan-regional accolade recognizing Supply Chain excellence for the
manufacturing and logistics industries across the Asia Pacific, this
award acknowledges the leading industry player with comprehensive
solutions that provide organizations with complete visibility across the
entire supply chain. The nominees for the award were evaluated based on
functionality of the solutions; geographical reach and support in the
region; business performance in the last five years; clientele profiles;
professional services; new market initiatives; and, innovation.
Customers also voted on the technology based on ease of use and
performance.
"Logistics Solutions Provider of the Year" China Logistics Summit &
Awards - Beijing, China: This awards event recognizes leading companies
that are shaping the world's most important logistics market - China.
Selection process for the award comprised an audited ballot of over
30,000 industry executives to select three finalists in the category and
a subsequent evaluation by a panel of seven independent judges to select
the eventual winner.
"2006-2007 Logistics Brand of the Year" 2006 China Logistics Innovation
Conference & Award Ceremony - Beijing, China: Organized by the China
Logistics Technology Association and China Logistics Media Alliance, the
award winner was based on a user satisfaction survey and customer
voting, with strict supervision of the review board by a panel of
industry experts and seasoned reporters.
Supply Chain Management
To answer the challenges of the ever-changing needs of today's demanding
customer and the pace of emerging technologies, Infor has the solution
to enable you to build from your core business system.
MAPICS (now Infor) Supply Chain Management (SCM) solution allows you to
improve communications with your downstream customers, while
simultaneously forming tighter relationships with your upstream vendors.
Infor's customers are now using workflow automation, performance
management, advanced planning engines and customer relationship
management to improve order fulfillment processes across the supply
chain. As a result, many of the unnecessary and lengthy delays prevalent
in today's fulfillment process are virtually eliminated. It is now
possible to efficiently promise, plan, source and fulfill one customer
order at a time across your entire supply chain
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