Rick Hassman, Director of Oracle Applications

Yamini Bhagavatula

For over 75 years, Pella Corporation has earned a reputation for creating innovative products and providing outstanding service. Pella holds more than 60 U.S. product and design patents for essential elements of commercial and residential construction and design. In 1985, Pella's management raised the company's profile by opening the first Pella Window Store® at the time the only manufacturer of its kind to launch a chain of retail stores to create new sales channels. Today, Pella Window and Door Stores® serve every major city across the United States and Canada. The inspiration behind these examples of innovation and creativity is what drove Pella's decision-makers to chose Oracle as a partner in their company's business transformation.

In striving to reach its goals and manage risk, Pella turned to the Oracle E-Business Suite to replace its aging legacy systems with an integrated approach to streamlining and simplifying its business practices. Pella used EBS to move from optimizing pieces to optimizing the entire enterprise. Starting in 2000, the company's phased implementation focused on Financials and Procurement in its first and second years. In 2002, the company turned to Oracle Manufacturing, Sales Online, Configurator, Order Management and Marketing for its second phase. The Pella footprint includes: Configurator, Product Lifecycle Management, Marketing, Field Sales (aka Sales Online), Sales Offline, TeleService, iSupport, Advanced Inbound, Scripting, Order Management, Advanced Pricing, Inventory Management, Mobile Supply Chain Applications, Demand Planning, Purchasing, iProcurement, Discrete Manufacturing, Flow Manufacturing, Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Management, Financials, and Human Resources.