Fameccanica do Brasil Standardizes Business Processes and Reduces Time for Account Closes by 50%
 
 

Fameccanica do Brasil Standardizes Business Processes and Reduces Time for Account Closes by 50%

Fameccanica do Brasil manufactures heavy equipment for the production of health and hygiene products—mainly disposable child and adult diapers and feminine absorbents. Operating in Brazil since 2008, the company is part of the Fameccanica Group, which is headquartered in Italy and also has subsidiaries in the United States and China.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Fameccanica do Brasil

  • “Oracle E-Business Suite is a powerful, flexible, and reliable tool. It has enabled us to enhance our management processes, as well as improve communication between departments, with headquarters, and with suppliers and customers.” - Emiliano Marco Daniele, Financial Manager, Fameccanica do Brasil

  • Ensure governance and control in all departments of the company’s health and hygiene industry machinery operations in Brazil
  • Standardize production cost calculations to enable headquarters to better formulate industrial equipment manufacturing strategies
  • Bring the monthly account closing process in-house to meet shareholder deadlines and ensure cost efficiencies 

Solutions

  • Worked with Oracle Partner Bertini do Brasil to implement Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Database, Standard Edition on Oracle Linux in six months, creating an infrastructure for standardized business practices when the company opened manufacturing operations in Brazil
  • Ensured that the group’s subsidiaries in Brazil, the United States, and China used Oracle E-Business Suite for consistent costing and production processes to enable performance comparisons and facilitate strategic decision-making
  • Achieved an efficient and flexible purchasing process—a very important strategic advantage for the company, since each piece of machinery it manufactures has at least 80,000 components
  • Enabled the company to meet all fiscal, legal, and financial requirements for operating in Brazil, using the Oracle Periodic Average Cost and Oracle Integrated Receiving modules to meet Brazilian legal requirements
  • Deployed Oracle Financials to create a platform that enabled the company to bring the accounting function in-house, and reduced monthly account closing time from 10 days to 4 business days
  • Attained total control over production planning with Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP—including estimated development time for each project and delivery—ensuring efficiency and market competitiveness

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