Implementation of Oracle Apps R11i

The Customer

The customer is one of the largest retail groups in the Middle East region with interests in Clothing, Footwear, Female accessories, Baby’s clothes and accessories and household furniture. It has a turnover of over $600 million. With its branches spread across the GCC and India, it today operates over 400 stores and around 10 Malls The customer’s retail business is segmented into different lines of businesses which they call ‘Concepts’. These Concepts operate as independent profit centers. The group operates in a multi-product; multi–companies format across various geographical locations.

The Business Challenge

Key business challenge was exhaustive implementation across numerous business entities across 90 companies which comprised of the following:

  • 200 Users
  • 45 Set of Books
  • 60 Operating Units
  • 93 Inventory Organizations
  • 1 Million Account Code Combinations
  • 89 Asset books
  • 500 Properties
  • 5 Legacy applications interfaced

The Solution

Zensar’s solution consisted of Oracle Applications 11.5.9 implementation with the following customizations being carried out during the actual implementation:

  • 22 Interfaces
  • 30 Concurrent Programs
  • 32 Reports
  • 15 Uploads
  • 6 Alerts
  • 2 Workflows

100% Test effectiveness i.e. 0% defect leakage so far

Business Benefits

Zensar provided the implementation of Oracle Daily Business Intelligence (DBI) – for Payables. This consisted of providing the client’s Payables Managers & Analysts the daily information they need to:

  • Optimize open payables positions.
  • Capitalize on remaining discount opportunities.
  • Identify critical outstanding holds.
  • Enhance relationships with suppliers.