1. Experience Sharing
in ERP Transition
R. Ramesh
Corporate Head
Global Marketing, IT & Strategic Planning
2. About JANATICS
Established in 1977
Manufacturer of Pneumatic Products
100 Crores company
3 Manufacturing units, 14 branches, 85 dealers, export to
25 countries
ISO 9001:2008 certified organisation
Recipient of numerous awards
3. Products & Services
Cylinders, Solenoid valves, Tubes and Fittings, Air
Preparation units etc
Total Pneumatic system solutions to Automation needs
of industries covering almost all segments like
Automobile, Packaging, Pharma, Printing,Plastic,
Textile, Cement and Construction, Process industry and
so on
4. Major Customers
Over 15000 customers all India…
LMW, ELGI, Ashok Leyland, TATA motors, FORD, GM,
TOYOTA, Mahindra, Bajaj, Skoda, TATA steel, L&T,
VOLVO, TVS group, Schwing Stetter, Bridge Stone,
Eicher, HM, ITC, BHEL and so on
JANATICS recognised by Govt. of India as an approved
R & D centre
Company trained engineers present all over India to give
immediate support
5. Oracle EBS – Current Status
Implementation in six months
“Go-live” in July 2007
Modules implemented: Manufacturing, Distribution and
Finance
Database: 9.2.0.8.0
Oracle Applications: 11.5.10.2
Operating System: IBM AIX 5.2
Backup: IBM Tivoli 5.4
Servers: IBM P52A (Power series)
Storage: IBM DS4700-SAN
Connectivity: CISCO LAN, Leased line &
MPLS VPN for Branches
Web servers: VSNL, Chennai
6. Pre Implementation Activities
Necessity of integrated ERP..using old foxpro system
Global expansion ,inventory and finance, variety
Studied various packages like SAP, JD Edwards,
Oracle E-Business Suite
Finalised Oracle E-Business Suite
Implementation partner :L & T Infotech
Project team - Core Technical & Functional
Full backing from Management(Daily 1 PM Meeting)
Server Network & related System Requirement
Finalisation –issues faced (oracle in linux/AIX)
7. Implementation Activities
Dedicated Core Project team throughout the six months
AS-IS study & “To Be” finalisation - the challenges
Training & Motivation - Cooperation from all across the
company
Implementation people (consultants) issue (knowledge/motivation to
work in Coimbatore /underestimation/ accountability)
Blackout for 4 days
Data Migration (over 60000 items altogether)
Go-Live
Issues after Go-Live( invoice,MRP,openness of transactions,OSP
related, seeded reports problem..)
8. Oracle Implementation Details
Setup
Single Operating Units
10 Inventory Organisations (Currently 14 inventory)
Planning & Scheduling
More than 5000 BOM’s
More than 50,000 items
Planning through Safety Stock, Forecast and Min-max
MRP for Stock and Sales orders
Sub assembly of products
9. Oracle Implementation Details
Order Management
Order entry at Branches and booking at Head office
more than 1000 active live direct billing customers
Inventory
Sub-inventories as per excise regulations
Combination of Push and Pull system
Sub-inventory control through form personalisation
Manufacturing
More than 90% manufacturing activities are OSP
Purchasing
Approved supplier list, Sourcing rule and Approval
Hierarchy
Pricing handled through Quotations
10. Oracle Implementation Details
Finance
Closing periods activity
6 Segments in Chart of Accounts
Reconciliations of sub-ledgers, Excise
Reporting & Others
Controls through form personalisation. SOP issues
in Indian environment.
Exhaustive use of in-house API publishing
(outbound only) programs using ASP and Dot
net.
Oracle report issues.
Publishing data to suppliers & branches
11. Post Implementation
Support by Oracle (Metalink and Severity )
Openness of Oracle
Difficulties in SOP
controls through DFF field
Accounts closing and P & L
Stability of Oracle & IBM.
Advantage of strong in-house IT team
(apps,server,dB)
12. Benefits
Overall benefit of financial integration with manufacturing
Scalability (Multi location Manufacturing )
stability
adoption of standard practices
future plans….
Advance Supply Chain implementation
iExpense, iSupplier
Document Management
PLM
Thank you!
