America's Largest Steel Producer Implements Oracle Supplier and Customer Hub to Standardize Data Management

Highlights
  • Industry

    Steel

  • Products

    Steel related products

  • Revenue

    $ 16 Billion

  • Solution Footprint

    Oracle Supplier and Customer Hub

Customer Overview

Currently ranks as the largest steel producer in the United States of America. Company produces steel bars, beams, sheet or flat rolled steel, plate, steel joists, joist girders, steel deck, steel grating, expanded metal, and wire and wire mesh.

Business Challenges
  • Organize customer and supplier data scattered across eight legacy databases
  • Obtain consolidated reporting without relying on the consolidation at corporate level
  • Enable independent and smooth operation for each plant
  • Obtain single view and standardizations on customer and supplier data
  • Avoid duplicate customers entries spread across all systems
  • Implement common use of D&B number
Birlasoft Solution
  • Birlasoft implemented Oracle Customer Hub/Supplier Hub
  • Provided MDM solution coinciding with an Oracle EBS R12
  • Enabled extensive legacy integration to and from CDH and SDH
  • Implemented EDQ for profiling, cleansing, standardizing and conversion of customer data and supplier data
Benefits
  • Standardized customer and supplier data scattered across eight legacy databases
  • Obtained a single, consolidated view of customers and suppliers
  • Improved Reporting
  • Achieved a more controlled environment for creating and maintaining customers and suppliers which maximized operational efficiency
  • Conversion of data for M&A has become simplers