Packway Industries Limited to Drive Greater Business Efficiency with Oracle Applications
Fast-Growing Small-to-Medium-Sized Manufacturer Chooses Oracle Over SAP
Hong Kong, 17 July 2006 - Oracle today announced that Packway Industries Limited, a Hong Kong-based privately-owned decorative lighting manufacturer, has chosen Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition to replace its manual based systems to drive greater efficiency and productivity, as part of its long-term business growth strategy. The solution is being deployed in Packway's Hong Kong head office and its manufacturing plant in China by Bechelon Consulting Limited, a Certified Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork.
Founded in 1983, Packway is a fast-growing US$30 million manufacturer of indoor and outdoor decorative lighting products, with major clientele in America, the United Kingdom and other European countries. To further extend its growth and compete more profitably in the global market, Packway realized it needed to reengineer and automate its internal processes. After a nine-month long selection and evaluation process, Packway chose the Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition over several other software vendors, including SAP.
"We need a system that can take Packway to the next level of business efficiency, and we want to start it right. More importantly, we need a versatile business software solution that can provide us with a clear upgrade path to support Packway's business growth in the long run," said Ronald K.Y. Fung, Managing Director of Packway Industries Limited. "The Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition enables us to consolidate all business processes in a single system at a predictable price today, with the option to adopt additional functionality to meet business requirements later."
Having run its business on manual, decentralized systems for more than 20 years, Packway is increasingly suffering from the lack of integration between its finance, manufacturing and sales operations. By consolidating the supply chain and sales operations with the Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition, the company will have access to up-to-date inventory data to enable efficient material movement and provide a controlled environment for tracking inventory across demand requirements. In turn, the greater efficiency of material movement and inventory tracking will contribute to improvements in inventory turnover and customer satisfaction.
The Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition implementation started in February 2006 with Bechelon mapping out the business processes of Packway. To help local manufacturers address specific challenges of managing increasingly complex operations, Bechelon Consulting Limited has pre-built the manufacturing industry processes and business practices into Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition to meet specific requirements of local manufacturers.
"One of the key areas that the solution addresses is the management of key processes between the production of goods in factories in China and the export of these goods to markets in the West," said Toney Chang, Director of Bechelon Consulting Limited. "Our industry experts are working closely with Packway's management and project team to ensure that Packway reengineers its business smoothly, with modern industry best practices that maximize operation efficiency and effectiveness."
To address the specific challenges of decorative lighting products seasonal demand, Packway is deploying an additional module – Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling – from the full Oracle E-Business Suite.
"Within Packway's product portfolio is a number of seasonal products including fiber optic Christmas trees and festival lighting. These always present a challenge for the company in terms of material planning and production schedules," said Fung.
Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling will help Packway address the company's seasonal production needs. Its advanced graphical interface enables production management to view the shop floor activities instantly and to reschedule jobs easily with the drag-and-drop rescheduling functionality.
The new Oracle Applications, which includes Financials, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Order Management, Discrete Manufacturing and Manufacturing Scheduling, is expected to go-live in September 2006.
"Packway's choice of Oracle solutions validates Oracle's extensive capabilities and product portfolio in providing comprehensive solutions for companies of all sizes, including the fast-growing small-to-medium-sized enterprise (SME) segment, " said Arics Poon, Managing Director, Oracle South China and Hong Kong. "With the strong support and network of our local partners, Oracle is committed to continue to provide industry-specific solutions for local SMEs to sharpen their competitive edge. "
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