Rovagnati S.p.A. Upgrades Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System to Better Manage Global Business Expansion
 
 

Rovagnati S.p.A. Upgrades Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System to Better Manage Global Business Expansion

  • Oracle Customer:  Rovagnati S.p.A
    Location:  Biassono, Italy
    Industry:  Consumer Goods
    Employees:  430
    Annual Revenue:  $100 to $500 Million

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Rovagnati is passionately dedicated to the world of high quality charcuterie. Behind the Rovagnati brand and its wide assortment of delicious products, there are huge investments in cutting-edge processing plants, which offer full control of the various production stages and comply with the tightest quality and health standards. The Rovagnati philosophy is: “Technology, safety, and quality to stand apart and excel.” The company exports to both European and nonEuropean countries and has branches in France and Germany.

With an expanding global business, the company required a more comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that could better support its sales and distribution teams, as well its managerial and financial functions. Thanks to Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne suite, Rovagnati was able to implement a tier-one solution that provided the necessary functionality to the sales, administrative, shipping, and purchasing departments to support international growth. The upgraded system improved managing the company’s 25,000 active customers and its thousands of product orders received each week.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Rovagnati S.p.A

  • "The complexity of the food industry requires a very efficient, integrated, and flexible IT infrastructure. With Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, we have a complete and complex information system, which enables us to better address market challenges." – Alessandro Calori, Chief Financial Officer, Rovagnati S.p.A.

  • Upgrade the functionality of the existing enterprise resource management (ERP) system to improve the procurement-to-payment process, streamline credit and collection management, and enhance sales commission calculation and management for the charcuterie business
  • Consolidate balance sheets for new and existing companies involved in the development and distribution of cured meat products
  • Improve management of sales orders and direct shipments, companywide
  • Eliminate need for software customizations and implement a standardized management system that can perform more effectively and quickly
  • Provide a single ERP platform to support the global expansion of the company’s ERP and the sale of its food products

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Implemented Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, a tier-one solution that delivered the required functionality, out of the box, without requiring expensive customizations
  • Implemented JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Financials 9.0 and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Production and Distribution Planning modules for 80 users in the food producer’s administrative, shipping, and purchasing departments
  • Optimized the accounts receivable flow by restructuring the integration of contracts with orders for prepared meat products
  • Leveraged new system features to improve management of 25,000 active customers and 1,500 daily charcuterie orders
  • Activated new automated-reminder policies to facilitate better control of client accounts
  • Reduced the average monthly financial close time from 80 days to 10 days
  • Optimized the entire accounts payable management process—from orders to invoices—and achieved complete, end-to-end data flow
  • Centralized and optimized purchasing department functions by tracking and providing timely information on stock receipts, inventory, and purchasing, resulting in a cost saving of 10%
  • Improved commission process management by automating payments to food sales personnel
  • Improved supplier data tracking for business intelligence (BI) operations, enabling multiple analyses—from cost evaluation, to delivery time analysis
  • Extended the use of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to the company’s branches in France and Germany, reducing costs and improving the speed of accounting operations
  • Facilitated information monitoring and consolidation across the company’s various entities

Why Oracle

After carefully reviewing several software options, Rovagnati selected Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne suite for its demonstrated success in the food sector, proven cost-effectiveness, value, and flexibility.

Partner

Oracle Partner Atlantic Technologies is an international consulting company with a team of 100 consultants. It specializes in the implementation of business software solutions, providing resources for the configuration, implementation, and deployment of enterprise software solutions.

“Atlantic Technologies provided very efficient support during the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne upgrade," said Alessandro Calori, chief financial officer, Rovagnati S.p.A. "It helped us consolidate our IT functions and implement a complex solution in just eight months. The fast and structured implementation process was a key element of Rovagnati’s successful solution upgrade.”