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- Oracle Case Study: Meggitt Safety Systems, Inc.
- Formerly Whittaker Corporation, Meggitt Safety Systems, Inc. has been producing aircraft fire detection and industrial fire/gas protection systems for more than 35 years. The company wanted to strengthen itself in areas, such as inventory control. They wanted a flexible software that they could work with and modify. Meggitt Safety Systems...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Strategic Planning, Aerospace & Defense, Finance, Strategy, Management, Manufacturing
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- Pacific Steel and Recycling Improves Profitability and Customer Service
- Pacific Steel and Recycling is a 100-year-old, employee-owned company with 37 branches in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and South Dakota. When Pacific Steel and Recycling decided to replace its manual inventory management, pricing, and sales processes with an automated system, it looked for a solution that could adapt...
- Tags: Customer Service, J.D. Edwards & Co., Recycling, Inventory Management, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Oracle Case Study: Tools for Bending
- Tools for Bending was a small company with premier customers and complex business challenges. Known for its high-quality tooling, the company needed to enhance its business processes such as estimating and order entry to retain market leadership. MSS Technologies helped Tools for Bending establish effective, efficient business processes with JD...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Tool, Productivity, Operational Planning, Business Operations
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- Case Study: Web Based Inventory Integration With AS400 / JD Edwards
- A national distributor of imported hardware components needed a way to link customers, suppliers, and salespeople to current inventory, pricing, and specification data that were stored on their AS400 JD Edwards system. This distributor faced the problem of a global sales force that is struggling to keep a current record...
- Tags: Web, Distributor, J.D. Edwards & Co., IBM AS/400, Integration, Pricing, Marketing Research, XML, Servers, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware
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- Samyang Corporation Improves Efficiency With Integrated Business Management System
- Seoul-based Samyang Corporation has 17 offices in Korea employing around 1,200 people and maintains branches in New York, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Samyang has used JD Edwards solutions for few years, implementing JD Edwards OneWorld XE in July 2001 to support its aim of becoming a globally competitive company. In February...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Business Management, J.D. Edwards & Co., Samyang Corp., Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Strategy, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Management
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- Kleyn International Leverages Collaborative Software to Increase Visibility Into Vast Truck Inventory and to Facilitate Sales
- Kleyn International is the world's largest independent trader of used commercial vehicles (trucks, vans, buses, and construction equipment), with sales of about 170 million euros in 2002. Kleyn operates under the "known quality" concept: every truck is thoroughly inspected so customers know exactly what they are buying, whether their purchase...
- Tags: Software, Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Kleyn International, Sales Strategy, Financial Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Supply Chain, Sales Force Management, Construction, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations
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- Oracle Case Study: Shell Canada
- Shell Canada wanted to improve field and IT operations by providing users access to enterprise applications via a web browser. Realizing the Promise of the Web With hundreds of remote sites to support, Shell Canada clearly understood that providing web-based access to enterprise applications will significantly reduce IT expenses and...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Enterprise Application, Web Browsers, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software
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- For Brigham's Ice Cream, Outsourcing Makes the JD Edwards World Solution Even Sweeter
- For more than 80 years, Brigham's Ice Cream has manufactured and distributed its products in the New England region. In 1998, Brigham's faced a turning point in its information systems environment. A necessary hardware upgrade presented a significant financial investment, while maintaining the IBM AS/400 and a growing internal network...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, J.D. Edwards & Co., Environment, Brigham, Outsourcing, Hardware Upgrade, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Hardware, Finance
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- The Shaw Group Inc. Speeds Decision Making With Rapid Access to Real-Time Information
- With 288 companies and hundreds of offices and project sites around the world, The Shaw Group saw a need to streamline and integrate its inter-company business and provide its employees with holistic project views. The company decided to consolidate its seven information systems into one, standardizing on JD Edwards World....
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Decision-making, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Office Suites
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- TBC de Mexico Improves Inventory Visibility and Control, Reducing Labor Costs Up to 15%
- TBC de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. is a leading tire distributor and importer. The company wanted to implement a management system to support the company's rapid growth and provide inventory system to its 26 points of sale. The challenge was to improve financial processes for efficient inventory management and provide...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Inventory Management, Mexico, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Spirent Eases Integration Tasks With Oracle, JD Edwards, and Siebel
- Customer service is critical to Spirent Communications, which supplies sophisticated diagnostic tools and services for telecom network service and equipment providers. This case study explains how the focused communication company depends on a tightly integrated mix of enterprise applications built mainly with JD Edwards Enterprise Resource Planning ERP applications, Oracle...
- Tags: Customer Service, Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Siebel Systems Inc., Spirent Communications, Integration, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Oracle Case Study: Maxco
- Maxco was growing rapidly in a highly competitive market. Ongoing success depended on providing flexible business systems to help Maxco employees continue to meet customers' individual requirements quickly and accurately. JD Edwards World from Oracle provides Maxco with robust financial, distribution, and manufacturing functionality that enhances efficiency and productivity. The...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Manufacturing
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- ValleyCrest Companies Moves From IBM AS/400 to HP Open Systems Solution for Growing Business Needs
- ValleyCrest Companies, the largest landscape services company in the nation, faced just such a situation. For years, it had run Oracle's JD Edwards' World financial software on an IBM AS/400 mainframe. But the company had an aging drive farm and CPU. The hardware simply wasn't keeping up with the growing...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., J.D. Edwards & Co., IBM AS/400, IBM Corp., Servers, Mainframes, Hardware
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- Oracle Case Study: Enersource Hydro Missisauga
- As an energy distribution company, Enersource Hydro Missisauga needed a solution that could integrate many diverse applications and functions across the enterprise to increase productivity for field and centralized processes, control inventory costs, reduce duplication of effort, and improve customer service and efficiency. Enersource used its JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solutions...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Asset Management, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Operational Planning, Business Operations, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Unified Data Drives Operational Efficiencies and Cost Reductions
- Headquartered in San Jose, California, Lumileds is the world's leading manufacturer of high-power LEDs (light-emitting diodes). When Lumileds was founded they needed to rapidly move their financial data into an independent business module. They also wanted to look closely at manufacturing as a way to consolidate the data - to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Cost Reduction, Light-emitting Diode, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Engineering, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Sunway Construction Improves Financial and Project Management With Integrated Platform
- Sunway Construction is one of the largest construction and engineering companies in Malaysia. The company wanted to upgrade to the latest version of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. The challenge was to ensure the migration is completed without any impact on the business, provide online access to consolidated project information, and create...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, J.D. Edwards & Co., Sunway Construction, Engineering, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Management, It Operations, It service Management
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- Hunter Douglas Improves Productivity, Cuts Manufacturing Lead Times
- Hunter Douglas Australia is a manufacturer and distributor of window furnishings and architectural products. Several challenges led Hunter Douglas to look for a new technology solution. Firstly, none of its four different legacy systems was capable of getting through anticipated Y2K issues. Secondly, the systems themselves were outmoded, forcing the...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Hunter Douglas Australia, Y2K, Manufacturing, Construction, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware
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- Manuli Rubber Industries Enables Accurate Data Sharing Worldwide
- Manuli Rubber Industries S.p.A. is a multinational group focused on design, production, and distribution of rubber and metal components and systems for fluid transmission in high-pressure hydraulic applications and in the oil/marine sector. The company wanted to provide a robust, dependable, integrated information management system. The challenge was to guarantee...
- Tags: Information Management, Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Industry, Data Sharing, Manuli Rubber Industries S.p.A., Taxes, Financial Management, Free Trade, Strategy, Financial Planning, Finance, Management
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- D-M-E Company Supports Global Business Growth With Upgraded IT System
- For over six decades, D-M-E Company has been an essential resource to moldmakers, molders, and mold designers in the plastics industry. A division of Milacron, Inc, D-M-E Company operates in 70 countries. The challenge was to create an Information Technology IT infrastructure that will scale to accommodate continued global business...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Information Technology, Sarbanes-Oxley, Strategy, Regulatory Compliance, Internet, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
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- Integration Helps Transmed Boost Productivity, Improve Customer Service, and Cut Costs
- Transmed is a sales, distribution, and bottling organization for fast moving consumer goods in the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The challenges were to streamline warehouse management and distribution processes, increase order accuracy and gain real-time overview of order status through placement, dispatch, and arrival at customer site...
- Tags: Customer Service, Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Integration, Transmed, Transportation, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware
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