Overview
A Fortune 500 corporation a global technology leader that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines, filtration, and power generation products. It also services engines and related equipment, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission control, electrical power generation systems, and trucks. Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana, United States, Client sells in over 190 countries and territories through a network of more than 600 company-owned and independent distributors and approximately 6,000 dealers.
Business Situation
The client has more than 25 production instances of Oracle E-Business Suite for running their day-to-day business. They have centralized their HRMS and Finance applications across different LOBs but to use a combination of central regional instances, location- specific instances, LOB wise EBS instances for MDM, Procurement, Order Management, Discrete Manufacturing, and planning applications. These ERP applications are used by over 50,000 users in 45 countries with multiple languages and localizations installed. These applications are heavily customized for integrations with corporate systems, process automation, and operational reporting. Many of these instances were on older versions ranging from 11i to 12.1 and needed upgrade to 12.2 for the continued support from Oracle.
Project Highlights
Industry: Engines, turbochargers, filtration, emission systems and power generation equipment manufacturing
Solution
- Factory model for upgrade execution
- Route to 12.2 and IMPACTA toolchain
- Modules covering HRMS, MDM, Procurement, Order Management, Discrete Manufacturing, and planning applications
- DB upgrade and Platform migration
- Automated regression testing to reduce involvement from business users
Revenue: $18 Billion USD
Employees: 58,600+
Geographic Location: Multi-National
Birlasoft Solution
Birlasoft deployed the Factory model to deliver 18 EBS application upgrades over multiple years. Resource deployment was largely offshore centric with 10-15% at onsite for cost-effective execution. The Route to 12.2 and IMPACTA toolchain formed the cornerstone of all these executions with a significant effort spent on customization and integration retro fitment and testing. Some of these upgrades also involved migration to Exadata/Exalogic platform.
Benefits
- Low cost, repeatable and consist execution model
- Noteworthy system performance improvements
- Minimal downtime window to reduce the impact on business operations
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