1. Huber Engineered Materials
Oracle 11i Implementation
March 15, 2002
Marci Moss

2. Huber Engineered Materials
Largest of 3 divisions of the JM Huber Corporation.
Specialty chemicals company with 15 manufacturing facilities in North America, 1 in India and Brazil and 11 in Europe.
HEM was formed through the merging of several different divisions and through acquisitions.

3. Huber Engineered Materials
The Result:
Disparate systems and processes.
The Need:
One Global ERP Platform
The Choice:
Oracle 11i

4. Huber Engineered Materials
Project Scope:
Implement by a combination of Process Stream, Geography and line of business.
Process Streams:
1. Financials North America
2. Procure to Pay North America
3. Order to Cash: PCC, Kaolin, ATH, GCC; 13 locations

5. Huber Engineered Materials
4 Waves of implementation:
Wave 1: PCC all 3 Processes streams, went live on August 1, 2001
Wave 2: Financials and Procure to Pay all North American locations, went live on October 1, 2001.
Wave 3: Order to Cash Kaolin, went live on February 4, 2002.
Wave 4: Order to Cash ATH and GCC, scheduled to go live May 1, 2002.
Other waves to follow but scope is not finalized.

6. Huber Engineered Materials
Order to Cash:
Order Management (Order Entry, Pricing, Shipping Execution)
Accounts Receivable
Inventory Management
Quality
Integrate Manugistics Transportation Management to Order Management
Streamserve integration

7. Huber Engineered Materials
Challenges:
‘Make to Order’ process at manufacturing facilities.
Implementing OM without fully implementing OPM
Manugistics integration, especially export shipments; ‘bleeding edge.’
Application Service Provider
Order Management bugs and patches
No standard processes

8. Huber Engineered Materials
Successes
Went live as scheduled
Order Management is now stable
Manugistics planning of orders working well; rating, routing and carrier assignment
Load tendering to the carriers
Received well by the end users
Technical Development
Reports and documents

9. Huber Engineered Materials
Lessons Learned:
Processes need to be clearly defined and communicated to and embraced by the organization; design ends, testing begins.
Data is critical; once complete freeze it!!
‘End to End’ testing.
Handing over the keys; Project needs to be driven by organization.

10. Huber Engineered Materials
Questions?