| An appLOAD™ Case Study - Shanthi Gears |  |
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Company Profile
Established in 1969, Shanthi Gears Ltd manufactures a range of gears and related products, including worm reduction gear boxes and herringbone gears. The company also provides engineering, design, and manufacturing consulting services. Shanthi Gears has six manufacturing units based in Coimbatore, as well as more than 20 sales offices across India. It employs more than 500 manufacturing and office-based staff..
Challenges
- Upgrade existing Oracle enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to take advantage of new features, such as workflow approvals, automatic order tracking, and payment scheduling.
- Integrate all gear manufacturing processes, such as purchasing materials and monitoring production, into a single ERP system.
- Access information, such as order status and available inventory, to generate more detailed financial reports with minimum manual intervention.
Shanthi Gears needed an out of the box solution for their data conversion needs, and they chose Chain-Sys' appLOAD suite.
Chain-Sys Solution
Chain-Sys offered Shanthi Gears appLOAD productivity suite to load their master transactions and setup data into Oracle EBS R12. appLOAD was used for the initial data conversion. Shanthi Gears saved substantial time and money over the traditional method of data loading. appLOAD is used as an end user tool for Oracle EBS R12 data management in scenarios such as Customer Cleanup, Supplier Update, Mass Item Update, Cost Update, Human Capital Management Records for over 70 countries.
Results
- Increased the number of on-time deliveries by 25% and improved the time between quotation and delivery by 10% through the ability to automatically follow up on outstanding purchase orders, quotes, and deliveries, as well as to approve invoices.
- Cut time to complete month-end processes, such as for generating financial reports and invoices, by more than 60%, by checking relevant information more frequently.
- Reduced by 50% the need for manual intervention during order and delivery processes by automatically informing customers when an order has been accepted or dispatched.
- Decreased manual data entry requirements by 90%, which reduced the risk of human error by customizing forms, such as for quotes and sales orders, based on departmental needs.
- Enabled inventory, materials, and manufactured items to be monitored.
- Enabled company buyers to better monitor gear component orders and deliveries by creating an integrated buyer work center, accessible through a single window.
Templates Implemented
- Oracle E-‐Business Suite R12.1.1
- Oracle Financials
- Oracle Manufacturing
- Oracle Inventory
- Oracle Purchasing
- Oracle Quoting
- Oracle Order Management