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JD Edwards Case Study
Enterprise Applications Outsourcing
 
Increasing business reliability for a large healthcare and pharmaceutical company through 24x7 worldwide support of critical applications
 

The client
The client is one of the largest health care and pharmaceutical companies in the world. Its operations spread across 37 countries and 84 manufacturing facilities with turn over of $ 22 billion.
 
The challenge
In the past few years, the client had expanded its operations considerably both in terms of geographical reach and number of business units. Its product range had also expanded significantly. An important reason for this growth had been the robustness of the IT infrastructure supporting its key business functions. The JDE system it had implemented 11 years ago for its financials, distribution and manufacturing functions was one such example.

At the same time, this system had become extremely complex and intricate. It had 200+ interfaces with other JDE systems and 3rd party applications. The system supported 50,000 suppliers, 800,000 invoices and £ 4 Billion of transactions annually. The financials module had to handle 200 overseas entities along with £ 1 Billion of inter-company transactions. With such a high degree of complexity, the client’s biggest challenge was maintenance and support of this application that was now the backbone of its operations.

 
The solution
Wipro was chosen as the partner to handle complete administration and support of existing JDE World Soft Solutions. The project was carried out in a phased manner i.e. a transfer of support activities to Wipro on a gradual and function by function basis. The initial part of this process was due diligence where our team analyzed the existing system and its functionality.

Based on the initial analysis, a crucial enhancement was made through integration of finance module with different applications like customer investment management system, Boomrang, OB10, Hexagon, construction industry scheme and integration with other ERP packages like SAP, PeopleSoft and BPCS.

In order to setup a well defined support process for the client, our team used Wipro’s well proven transition methodology. It was tailored specifically for project needs and contained the following stages:
Initiate
Knowledge acquisition
Shadow support
Primary support I and II
Steady state

An offshore development centre (ODC) was established for the client and using the global delivery model, all support services were gradually moved to the offshore location. To ensure quality and consistency of service, the followed SLA norms, based on call priority, were agreed to:
Minimum 90% of calls with priority “Urgent”, “High” or “Urgent+High” to be resolved with SLA specified time period.
Minimum 80% of calls with priority “Medium” to be resolved with SLA specified time period.
Minimum 75% of calls with priority “Low” to be resolved with SLA specified time period.

We regularly provide to the client extensive reports on SLA compliance and complete analysis of all support activities. This approach has enabled the client justify the costs of the project to various stakeholders.
 
Benefits
The business reliability of the client has increased greatly as its key functions are now supported round the clock by specialized staff.
Wipro has a set of best processes and methodologies for support projects. Our team was successfully able to customize these practices to suit this project requirement.
Therefore the always client had a:
Clearly defined entry and exit criteria for each phase
Quantitative metrics and targets for each phase to assess the effectiveness
Our support team has consistently outperformed all SLA targets. In the past five months, 100% compliance has been achieved twice with the lowest level being 98%.
 

 

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