Alcar Ruote drives sustainable change with Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM applications
Swiss maker of aftermarket steel wheels turns to Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM to boost supply chain practices and sustainability while reducing emissions.
“One of the prerequisites for our business success is a state-of-the-art, fully integrated cloud solution that provides our managers with real-time data. We see Oracle as not only a vendor, but also as a partner, helping us to reduce our carbon footprint and increase transparency.”
Business challenges
The company, headquartered in Switzerland, designs, produces, and distributes steel wheels for the automotive aftermarket in Europe and North America.
Alcar Ruote leaders wanted to move from on-premises applications to the cloud to gain real-time data in order to respond quickly when a new car hits the market and to evaluate business systems. The top priority was to build more flexible and effective planning and order management processes.
More recently, Alcar faced a new challenge. Mandatory EU corporate sustainability reporting came into effect and leadership sought enhanced visibility into the company’s carbon emissions. Also, customers began to require the company to certify the carbon footprint of their products. With these sustainability challenges, Alcar connected with Oracle for a solution to improve data management and reporting while also increasing transparency for customers.
Why Alcar Ruote chose Oracle
Alcar Ruote selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP applications to manage its planning, procurement, manufacturing, and distribution, while also enhancing visibility across those operations. Key to its decision to implement Oracle applications was Oracle Fusion Cloud Order Management to automate order-to-fill processes and boost productivity.
In addition, the company decided to adopt Oracle Fusion Cloud Sustainability to improve sustainability data collection, reduce costs, and increase transparency. Company leaders knew that Fusion Cloud Sustainability would capture and manage sustainability data at the granular level to meet reporting requirements and lead to impactful decisions. It would also automatically capture data from Fusion Accounts Payable using AI to streamline the process with built-in invoice classification, emission factor ranking, and the ability to maintain a sustainability ledger as a source of truth for reporting.
Results
After the migration to Oracle Fusion Cloud, the company dramatically reduced downtime and enhanced maintenance. Powerful Oracle analytics capabilities helped Alcar Ruote collect data, appropriately structure the data, and provide users with relevant insights and information for their respective roles. With fully integrated supply chain and ERP applications, the company automatically sends data to corporate headquarters to manage financials, view invoices in real time, and also generate invoices in PDF format for customer accounting teams.
And thanks to Fusion Cloud Sustainability, Alcar captured and managed the data it needed to track its emissions. The company used Fusion Cloud Sustainability’s integration with Fusion ERP’s Accounts Payable module to import data from invoices and calculate emissions automatically for purchased product components, energy, and fuel. The emission factor mapping and ranking features helped to ensure that the calculator used product carbon footprints as emission factors when available, and used spend-based factors as an alternative when necessary. The sustainability ledger gave Alcar all the data it needed for mandated corporate reporting.
In all, the company collected the data underlying its carbon footprint with less time and effort, while increasing the accuracy and auditability of company reports.
About the customer
The ALCAR Group is a multinational leader in the automotive sector, specializing in the production of alloy and steel wheels. Alcar Ruote produces over 1.5 million wheels each year.