1. eBusiness Implementation Irene Griffith / Kevin Palmer

2. Speakers Irene Griffith –Senior Consultant, Asparona Kevin Palmer –Financial Controller, TrustPower

3. Modules Implemented General Ledger Accounts Payable Fixed Assets Cash Management

4. Key Requirements NZ & Australia Multiple Companies in both countries Consolidated financial reporting in NZD Multiple GST reporting requirements

5. The Good …… TrustPower people Experience with Modules Sub Ledger Accounting FA Reports E-Business Tax Minimal Modifications Location

6. …. and the Not so Good E-Business Tax AP Trial Balance Supplier Interface

7. Key Setup Differences – 11i / R12 General Ledger Tax Sub Ledger Accounting Suppliers Bank Accounts and Payments User Management

8. Key User Differences – 11i / R12 Suppliers AP Invoice entry GST Payment processing Report Layouts Financial Reporting (Web ADI) Look & Feel

9. Challenges Difference between TrustPower systems & Oracle Translating Oracle processes to non-Oracle people Understanding external systems enough to build good interfaces

10. eBusiness Implementation TrustPower Perspective Kevin Palmer Financial Controller

11. Timeline InitiationConfigurationTestingBedding Down Go Live Project Start

12. Project Success factors Pragmatic and commercial Functional Architect Pragmatic and commercial TrustPower team Implemented by owners Very good knowledge of existing systems Efficient decision making Project management Established implementation methodology Prototyping Short time frame – focussed effort Go live at balance date Vanilla implementation

13. Next Time We Would… Have a longer implementation period Be finished two months before go live Do more testing Implement Discoverer on go live

14. Ebusiness – What we like Multi currency Multi company Structure Fixed Asset Register Drill down enquiry from reports Web Based Better reporting Supported and upgradable

15. Ebusiness – What could improve On screen enquiry Reporting Overall look and feel

16. Would we do it Again? YES - Definitely