Guerra S.A. Implementos Rodoviários Modernizes Management and Reduces Costs with ERP Solution
 
 

Guerra S.A. Implementos Rodoviários Modernizes Management and Reduces Costs with ERP Solution

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Guerra S.A. Implementos Rodoviários is one of Latin America’s largest manufacturers of semitrailers, B-doubles, road trains, and on-chassis trailers. Guerra serves 10,000 active customers and exports its products to 16 countries. In June 2008, 100% of the company’s shares were acquired by Axxon Group, a European private equity firm

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Guerra S.A. Implementos Rodoviários

  • “Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 enhanced our control over operations, costs, and corporate governance. It has also enabled greater transparency in our relationships with distributors.” – Fábio Alexandre Basso, IT Manager, Guerra S.A. Implementos Rodoviários

  • Implement administrative restructuring by adopting an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that incorporates current automotive market practices
  • Achieve greater efficiency and control over manufacturing processes for semitrailers, B-doubles, road trains, and on-chassis trailers
  • Optimize product configuration—which involves a catalog of nearly 2,000 components—when distributors fill orders
  • Expedite closing more than 3 million accounting transactions per month

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Worked with Oracle Partner Compasso to implement sixteen Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 modules on Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, using Oracle Business Accelerators—all completed under the allotted time, budget, and scope without customizations—to modernize, professionalize, and integrate production, control, and company management
  • Achieved online production control at Guerra’s five implementation factories to identify opportunities, improve processes, and increase profits
  • Leveraged the new ERP system to balance accounts payable and accounts receivable on a daily basis, accelerating monthly account closings and eliminating end-of-month backlogs
  • Enhanced client negotiations with Oracle VM by offering Guerra’s 42 distributors a complete and effective product configuration tool that displays the final price of orders, as well as profit margins and discounts
  • Reduced costs for the IT environment by using Oracle Linux, which is certified to run on a wide-range of commodity-grade servers--without posing any risk to data security
  • Eliminated distributor order revisions, which had taken at least an hour each to complete, due to manual processes
  • Automated order margin calculations, which, because they were calculated after product sales, had impeded actions to avoid profit loss

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