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Agenda
Business Goal and Benefits Business value of Oracle Asset Tracking System Architecture & Key Solution Components Critical Success Factors How PwC can help ? Contact Information Q&A
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Business Goals and Benefit
Business Objective
• Create single source of truth for all inventory and asset information • Reduce Supply Chain Inventory unit Cost • Streamline and automate entire ‘Acquire to Retire’ process
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Resulting Benefit
• Lower idle inventory • Increased visibility into inventory/assets across the enterprise • Reduce Excess and Obsolescence • Higher productivity and data accuracy • Lower compliance risk
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Business Value of Oracle Asset Tracking
• Accurate and real-time visibility of inventory and assets lead to better forecasting • Improved asset utilization and tracking • Synchronized Operational and financial asset transactions provide improved fiscal and tax reporting. • Integrated asset life cycle management provide fully auditable history of transactions (Movements, Maintenance, attribute updates)
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Solution: High level Business flow
Procurement Planning & Sourcing Capacity Engineering Logistics Management Inventory Receiving, Tagging and tracking Non-Tagged (Bulk) Inventory tracking Spares Management Operational Asset Management Asset Engineering Data Management
( Configuration, Lease/Warranty, Other Attributes )
Financial Asset Management Financial Asset Tracking (CIP, Capitalization) Lease Management
(Leasing , Buyouts and Lease Returns)
Spares requirements planning
Vendor Management
Asset Lifecycle management
(Provisioning, Repairs, Decomm. , Disposals, Buybacks, Write-downs, Returns)
OAT Capability with Extensions
Movements , Writedowns, Inter-company Asset Retirements
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Procurement
Consignments, RMAs and Returns
External Process
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Core OAT Capability
Solution: High Level System Architecture
Oracle Asset Tracking was integrated with multiple 3rd Party and Oracle products.
Agile
Item & BOM PO
INV
Engineering Application
(Provisioning, Repairs)
OAT FA GL
Ariba
Receipts AP
Oracle module 3rd Party applications
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Key Solution Components
• Procurement Process integration between Ariba and Oracle • ASNs based Receiving • Automated processing of configuration data-file for Assets
(Engineering Asset data Management)
• Asset information integrated to the Engineering system • Capitalization triggers (Provisioning, Consumption at live location) • Full support for tagged and non-tagged assets in OAT • International multi-ledger, multi-book, multi-currency support in an OAT environment
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Key Solution Components
• Asset Movement Location based status update in FA Inter-company and intra-company movements • Upgrades - Item Number, Make/Model changes • Replacements - Serial Number, Asset tag changes • Leasing – (Operational/Capital lease, Buyouts and Lease returns) • Write-Downs • Decommissioning, Disposals and Retirement
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Factors that enabled a successful go-live
Close partnership among client, PwC, and Oracle Development Weekly call Single escalation point Highly flexible and collaborative project team High degree of user involvement Creative solutions Additional round of UAT to focus on: Integration testing Month end close
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How Can PwC help ?
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Asset Leasing (Operating/Capital) Asset Planning
Deep hi-tech industry experience - data center environment and network infrastructure End to end large scale business transformation experience Process and Functional teams with multiple Oracle Asset tracking implementation experience Deep expertise in financial accounting and reporting Asset valuation and tax capabilities Asset audits
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Retirement, Scrap &Disposition
Asset Lifecycle Management
Procurement
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Shipping & Receiving
Maintenance &RMA Provisioning, Swaps & Movements
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Contact Information
Kaushik Bakhandi Director 510 469 4634 (Mobile)
[email protected] Hari Pudusseri Manager 949 302 2676 (Mobile)
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