Oracle R12 OBIEE, Better Decisions Faster with Advanced Analytics
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Macsteel Service Centers USA is a leading metals processor and distributor with over 30 locations across North America. The company implemented Oracle E-Business Suite for financials, order management, manufacturing, and other functions. It developed a data warehouse using Oracle Analytics Cloud and Informatica to integrate data from various systems and provide self-service analytics and reporting. This improved decision making and user satisfaction while reducing IT costs compared to a custom data warehouse. Lessons included focusing user requirements on abilities rather than reports and fine-tuning data extraction layers.
Oracle R12 OBIEE, Better Decisions Faster with Advanced Analytics
- 1. Stuart Patsos, CIO / VP of IT Better Decisions Faster with Advanced Analytics
- 2. Company Background Macsteel Service Centers USA is one of the leading metals processors and distributors in North America. March 1, Kloeckner Metals US. A division of Kloeckner & Co – the largest mill-independent distributor of steel in the world ● 30+ locations throughout North America and Puerto Rico ● processes and distributes ► carbon ► aluminum ► stainless ► specialty metals ● Products include a full range of ► flat rolled ► pipe ► plate ► bar ► tubing ► structurals ● The company also supplies a full range of ► Coated ► steel building products ► prepainted metals 2 2
- 3. Applications Footprint Version of EBS currently Implemented: 12.1.2 Oracle products implemented: Financials (GL, AP, AR, Advanced Collections) Order Management (including Configurator) OPM (Process Manufacturing) Discrete Manufacturing Inventory Procurement (including LCM – Landed Cost Management) OTM (version 6.04) eBusiness Tax (with Vertex O series) OBIEE and OBIEA On Demand since Sept 20, 2010 Future implementation Warehouse Management EAM ASCP 3
- 4. Macsteel Design Guidelines Developed with a standard approach Follow Oracle Data Warehouse approach Keep with standard and common technologies Design your system for data analysis not for technology Simplify the design – make reporting user driven Let the business drive your data model not the technology Develop a flexible system Simple data warehouse design and standard technologies • will lower the cost of warehouse maintenance • This allows IT to respond to business requirement changes Keep the data transformation as simple as possible 4
- 5. Macsteel Data Warehouse Data Oracle Main data Other Files EBS Source Syste Data Dashboard ms The presentation layer can be Informatica changed to Mapping your system Tool of choice I N Adhoc F ETL O Reports R M OBIEE A This tool T allows the end DAC users to I maintain C rollups and A hierarchies in Prebuilt the data Informatica warehouse Reports Data DW DDM (3rd party) Warehouse Administration Dimension Data Console Manager 5
- 6. Macsteel Data Warehouse Oracle Delivered Data Warehouse Oracle Financials Analytics Oracle Transportation Management (Transportation Analytics) Oracle Procurement & Spend Analytics Oracle Supply Chain Analytics Macsteel Enhancement to Oracle Delivered data warehouse Custom Branch security Custom Hierarchy and Rollup Management Dimensional Data Management Macsteel Custom Data Warehouse Custom Manufacturing Data Mart Custom Revenue and Cost of Goods Sold Data Mart Custom Inventory Data Warehouse needed for Macsteel requirements Consolidated Data Warehouse to join key data of the two US operating companies 6
- 7. Why We Chose Oracle Analytics Oracle prebuilt data warehouse eliminates the risk associated with custom data warehouse Oracle delivered data warehouse has been engineered with the latest methodologies in data warehousing. This enabled our organization to follow the same guidelines when building our additional data warehouse needs Keep with standard and common technologies – Easier to design a system and anticipate potential problems Lower the reliance on internal employee who have designed the custom data warehouse Faster go-live with Oracle delivered data warehouse Lower the resource cost when upgrading Oracle Applications. Oracle delivered data warehouse will provide an upgrade path to stay current with new data models Pre-delivered reports and dashboards will reduce report development time and increase data accuracy Implementing Oracle delivered data warehouse allowed us to easily move our data warehouse to Oracle On Demand 7
- 8. Results Achieved by Macsteel For Users Increased user satisfaction with better reporting Self Service reporting allows the users to get the data when they need it Better decision making Self Service executive dashboard For Information Technology Lower the cost of the ownership Reduced the technical development effort Reduced report development in EBS Reduced load on production systems Taking advantage of Oracle standardized technologies stack Using Oracle Standard for all non Oracle Data Warehouse needs Easier to find technical resources for Oracle Data Warehouse 8
- 9. Lessons Learned Expect to see holes in your processes • Be prepared to do some change management after seeing the results of OBIEE – don’t get caught off guard by this Defining clear user requirements is important, but do not focus the requirements on report design, focus the requirements on abilities. For example • “I need the ability to see my spend by supplier, by commodity, year over year” • NOT ‘Row1, row1, row3, using parameters x, y, and z and filters a, b. The connectors and extract layers are extremely valuable, but expect some fine tuning for it to fit your data and processes. May need to extend or build new data transportation layers 9
- 10. Questions