Oracle Customer Success—Marchesi Antinori

Marchesi Antinori Accelerates Wine Shipment by 50% and Supports International Growth with Enterprise Resource Planning System

With plans for growth in Italy and abroad, Marchesi Antinori required a single, integrated enterprise resource planning system that would help us to automate core business processes and achieve end-to-end enterprise visibility. We’ve greatly improved operating efficiency, including the acceleration of wine shipment processing by 50%.

— Renzo Cotarella, Chief Executive Officer, Marchesi Antinori s.r.l.

Marchesi Antinori s.r.l. is one of the largest winemakers in Italy, with a history that dates back to 1385. It is the seventh largest producer in Italy and the most profitable.

Business Challenge

Update the company’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform to meet the highest market standards and support a rapidly growing business in the dynamic wine sector
Achieve greater efficiency and better collaboration among departments by computerizing and integrating all management and administrative processes—including with pre-existing wine sector applications—and facilitating information sharing with department managers, from production to marketing, from viticulture to distribution, and so on

Centralize and standardize financial management and logistics to reduce operating costs
Reduce IT management costs associated with maintaining disparate systems and complex integrations
Improve data consistency, accuracy, and management for intercompany transactions, including purchasing and production—a critical goal as the company centralizes sales and distribution data

Cut 10% off time to prepare the annual budget, thanks to the presence of a single system that allows quickly collecting required information from all departments
Automated forecasting by using Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and cut by 10% the time and the manual work required for control activities

Saved 15% of time spent on strategic information consolidation and database management—now common practices within the company, thanks to system unification
Automated distribution procedures—both internally and externally—reducing wine shipment processing time by 50% and optimizing logistic resources
Implemented core business processes, thanks to the scalable system, to include customer relationship management, financials, sales orders, inventory, purchasing, forecasting, and manufacturing planning, enabling the addition of companies into the portfolio, such as Tormaresca and Prunotto
Implemented JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Grower Management, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Grower Pricing and Payments, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Blend Management modules for the most effective, personalized management of Antinori’s farms and harvests, wine-making contracts, and winery operations
Unified and centrally controlled updates for product and client data by centralizing all company systems, thus optimizing purchasing and production processes
Automated electronic reporting to reduce paper use among the many Antinori farm managers
Improved collaboration across all Antinori’s departments, from production to marketing, from viticulture to distribution, to improve data accuracy and enable more strategic decision-making that aligns with the company’s evolving business and market needs
Computerized the entire harvest process—from land identification, to pouring the mass into bottling tanks, thanks to the implementation of a single, integrated ERP system equipped with many dedicated modules

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne application suite enabled us to consolidate and unify our IT systems and provide a common model for all our entities and business processes.

— Emanuela Martuccelli, chief information officer, Marchesi Antinori s.r.l.

Execution

The implementation took 18 months, and executive participation was an important element in the plan, with the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Head of Strategy and Development, and Head of Planning and Control all taking part in the planning process. In operative terms, the work teams involved about 35 key users, divided into three main groups, led by three process owners: finance, distribution, and manufacturing.

About Marchesi Antinori

Headquarters

Florence, Italy

Employees

400

Annual Revenue

$100 to $500 Million

Marchesi Antinori

Partners

Marchesi Antinori chose GN Informatica for its complete solutions offering that integrates its beverage industry knowledge with its JD Edwards EnterpiseOne implementation consulting services. GN Informatica has been successfully implementing JD Edwards software since 1996.

“Oracle Specialized Partner GN Informatica proved to be a competent and reliable partner, with a great understanding of Oracle technology. Throughout the project, GN Informatica delivered results with an effective and timely approach,” said Martuccelli.