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Implementation of Ariba Buyer and its integration with Oracle Apps for a large electronics manufacturer
 
 
The idea
Configure, customize and integrate Ariba with Oracle and other disparate applications.
 
The client
A Global Fortune 500 conglomerate, the client is a leading electronics manufacturer with revenues of 250 million USD. Procurement happens to be one of the key strategies at the company, and vendors across the globe are treated as strategic partners.
 
The business challenge
The US subsidiary of the client was seeking a solution that could create an integrated, controlled purchase process, which could be scaled and expanded to meet future business needs for its plants on the east and west coasts. The key requirements of such a solution implementation were:
To increase by 50% the number of orders against contracts, thereby reducing the need for buyer intervention
To combine and leverage purchasing for multiple plants
Ensuring no impact to production/ operations as a result of lack of timely delivery of materials or services
To interface the central storeroom inventory management system with the e-procurement system

Further, the new application was to be integrated to Oracle instances, currently existing as the sole source of truth in the organization.

 
The solution
Wipro partnered with the client in delivering a solution as a part of the client’s global e-procurement strategy for indirect materials. This was designed to help manage the MRO buy initially for its businesses in two of its major plants with subsequent roll-outs. With the key deliverable of enhancing the procurement process for the client, the solution landscape composed of:
Implementation of Ariba 7.0.6
Complex integration of Ariba with Oracle 10.7 and 11.0.3
Successful integration with a third party inventory management systems- MP5i

Harnessing the AribaLive methodology, the team formulated, designed and implemented a solution using the Ariba Buyer 7.0.6 based on three-tier J2EE architecture. The integration solution delivered composed of TIBCO based integration interface to Oracle 10.7 and 11.0.3, customization of out-of-the-box TIBCO integration events to enable pull of customizations of Oracle 10.7 and 11.0.3, and receipt integration with Oracle 10.7 (not supported by Ariba), among others.

Currently the Wipro team is engaged in providing SLA driven applications support at near zero downtime for the client’s operations. The support involves support and maintenance of catalog filter and maintenance of business rules based on dollar authority and commodities, among others. The applications enhancements include integration of Ariba with min-max systems and implementation of requisition export to Data Mart among others.

 
Business benefits
A comprehensive e-procurement solution deployed in record time, with more than 1500 suppliers enabled and over 15 catalogs loaded into Ariba
Streamlining and e-enabling the purchase of indirect materials across both of client’s units and seamless flow of information between the integrated systems
An improved purchasing and settlement process via user-friendly web-enabled tools
Stage set for Ariba based requisitions / purchase orders / invoices to be interfaced to Oracle for settlement
Cost effective and high levels of support for the comprehensive e-procurement solution deployed
Reduced ad-hoc orders – thereby compliance and process savings
 

 

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