Yokohama Tire Corporation Rolls Out Oracle(R) Applications Nationwide
14 January 1998
Yokohama Tire Corporation Rolls Out Oracle(R) Applications Nationwide
Project Expected to Halve Time From Order Entry to Product Delivery
FULLERTON, Calif., Jan. 14 -- Oracle Corp.
today announced that Yokohama Tire Corporation, a subsidiary of The Yokohama
Rubber Co. Ltd., is standardizing on Oracle(R) Applications throughout its
U.S. operations as part of a major IT project to upgrade and standardize all
hardware and software platforms. The Oracle implementation, including Oracle
Financials(R), Oracle Manufacturing and Oracle Supply Chain Management
application suites, is expected to greatly improve data access, integrity and
analysis for better decision-making, and substantially streamline business
processes. Yokohama expects the efficiencies introduced by the integrated
Oracle system to help it meet its ultimate goal of reducing the turnaround
from the moment an order is placed to the time the customer receives the
products from several days to under 48 hours.
The project, dubbed Yokohama Enterprise System or YES, will upgrade
Yokohama's existing Oracle Financials implementation and replace its current
Unidata applications for accounts receivable, order entry, finished goods
inventory, warranty claims, shipping allocation of loading and pricing.
Yokohama selected Oracle Applications on the basis of its Year 2000
compliance, scalability, level of integration and technological leadership.
By unifying currently scattered data on the Oracle platform, Yokohama also
expects to gain improved data integrity and boost the productivity of
personnel.
Improved Decision-Making Through Better Data, Analysis
The Oracle system will provide Yokohama managers with faster access to
more detailed data for better decision making, as well as powerful online
analytical processing (OLAP) tools -- Oracle Discoverer(TM), Oracle Financial
Analyzer and Oracle Sales Analyzer -- to better monitor and measure business
performance. Rather than waiting days for MIS to create custom reports, users
will be able to drill down into data, look at data in a variety of different
ways, create their own reports, and post reports to an Intranet. Managers
will have online access to a snapshot of business performance on a daily
basis, including mini profit/loss statements to analyze the impact of proposed
promotions and discounts, analyzed by SKU line or customer, and direct cost
analyses to measure performance by SKU number, sales and discounts.
In addition to financial analyses, the system is expected to provide
direct benefits to factory and production management. Oracle Quality(TM) will
help Yokohama warehouse statistical data from the factory floor and generate
reports to analyze return rates, wear patterns and other results to determine
the impact of specific manufacturing processes and materials. Yokohama will
use Designer/2000(TM) to integrate existing plant systems with Oracle Bill of
Materials and Oracle Cost Management to better manage raw materials inventory.
The system will also help Yokohama better manage factory costs by more
precisely determining the direct cost of a particular tire build.
In the second phase of its project, Yokohama plans to improve
responsiveness to customer needs by implementing Oracle Web Customers(TM) as
the foundation of an Extranet that will allow customers to determine the
status of shipments and inventory, place orders and transact general business
utilizing Web technologies. Yokohama will also implement Oracle Web
Employees(TM) to automate purchasing of office materials and other small-order
items throughout the plant.
"Our goal is to make sure we get the right information to the right person
at the right time," said Michael Siersema, national MIS manager for Yokohama
Tire Corporation. "Oracle Applications will help us improve our
competitiveness through better decision-making, and improve our customer
service by getting products to our customers more quickly by streamlining our
business processes."
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for
information management, and the world's second largest software company. With
annual revenues of over $6 billion, the company offers its database, tools and
application products, along with related consulting, education and support
services, in more than 140 countries around the world.
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