Eaton Steel Bar reports all-round success with Oracle ERP system
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US engineered steel bar processor Eaton Steel reports huge success from its Oracle ERP implementation, with new insight into its supply chain, financials and partner network, as well as reduced costs.
Joe Machak, vice president of IT at Eaton, says that the company is now relying on Oracle E-Business Suite, Database and SOA Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, to get a unified view of its financial performance and transactions across all six of its subsidiaries.
That, he says, has resulted in better insights into organisational performance, enabling the organisation to consistently refine processes and further improve results.
“Using Oracle SOA Suite to develop and integrate transactional web services into Oracle E-Business Suite has simplified our processing and made it easier for our vendors, partners and internal employees to manage the process,” says Machak.
Specifically, he says that Oracle Discrete Manufacturing is allowing the organisation to manage its entire steel production process, from heat-treating and sizing to work-in-process to cost and quality management. Additionally, the company relies on Oracle to automatically transfer engineering specifications into production items, BoMs and routings.
He also refers to Oracle SOA Suite, which has been used to develop an SOA (service orientated architecture) that, he says, has simplified EDI transactions with its suppliers.
For example, prior to deploying the SOA, a processor in the company’s network had to call or fax Eaton Steel to notify the company when a shipment had been received. The information then had to be entered into the system, and the process repeated when the processor shipped the steel.
“Now, we can easily keep our inventory up to date and better understand the performance of our distributed manufacturing operation,” says Machak.
