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Oracle Customer Success—Worthington Industries
Worthington Industries Leverages Engineered Systems and Cloud Solution to Support Global Growth Strategy
ShareOracle Managed Cloud Services has been available for us around-the-clock, from providing engineered systems and new technology expertise to helping us through upgrades. OMCS partners with our IT team to get things done efficiently, so employees can stay focused on our critical business needs.
Worthington Industries is a leading global diversified metals manufacturing company with 2016 fiscal year sales of $2.8 billion. The company employs approximately 10,000 people and operates over 80 facilities in 11 countries. The Columbus, Ohio-based company is North America’s premier steel processor and a leader in manufactured metal products.
Business Challenge
- Consolidate financial management systems and processes across multiple manufacturing business lines
- Automate manufacturing and work-order processes to ensure that each business line and plant is run in the same way
- Deploy an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management system on a managed-cloud-services platform to take advantage of global support, high system capacity and availability, disaster recovery, and service continuity to ensure manufacturing plants can run 24/7
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Upgrade ERP system to receive superior support, reduce costly customizations, and take advantage of new functionality, ultimately improving system performance
Results
- Implemented Oracle E-Business Suite Managed Cloud Services to improve system scalability, as the company continues to grow and expand through acquisitions, and to boost availability to 99.8%, which is critical for a 24/7 global manufacturing operation
- Upgraded to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to take advantage of new functionality in credit management, trade management, and accounts receivables, as well as to identify opportunities to reduce customizations and related costs
- Implemented Oracle’s Advanced Supply Chain Planning on Oracle Exadata to accelerate forecast development, improve data integrity, provide offline capabilities for offsite users, put the company in position to improve forecasting accuracy by approximately 50%, and generate forecasts 3x faster
- Improved system performance and availability by leveraging Oracle Exlogic to run the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition—data warehouse loads are now running 4x faster
Worthington selected Oracle as a partner based on the broad functionality of the software, the reliability of the support, the expertise of Oracle Managed Cloud Services, and the performance of Oracle Engineered Systems.
About Worthington Industries