Presented By: David Griffin, DBA McKee Foods Corporation Customer Profile Presented By: David Griffin, DBA McKee Foods Corporation

McKee Foods Corporation Background Founded by OD and Ruth McKee in 1934 First bakery to produce individually wrapped cakes in a multipack carton Little Debbie produces 75 varieties of snack cakes Annual sales are approximately $930M Five production facilities in three states

Pre 11i Environment HP K460 2GM, 3 processors, 140G disk space 10.7 SC Modules General Ledger Fixed Assets Account Payables Project Accounting Eight years of historical data Integrated with GEMMS application

Financials History Financials implemented in 1994 Upgraded to 10.7 SC in 1997 Project Accounting implemented in 1998 Integrated with GEMMS in October 1999

Project Timeline Upgrade Assessment October 2001 -Boss Corporation & O’Reilly & Associates Request for Proposal January 2002 Project began February 4, 2002 Moved to new server, upgrade OS and database on April 19, 2002 Went live on 11i on May 1, 2002

McKee Implementation Team McKee – Technical Team Application Administrator Database Administrator Developer (2)

Consulting Team Deloitte Consulting Project Manager Functional Lead Technical Lead Database Administrator Developer(4) Oracle Consulting Developers(2)

Project Challenges Hardware had not been ordered Needed to close one period on 11i prior to year-end Accounting changes implemented with year-end GEMMS was not upgrading to OPM

Test Environments 10.7 on HPUX 11.0 10.7 on HPUX 11.0 and ORACLE 8.1.7.3 Oracle Applications 11.5.5

Test – Test and More Test Each environment had to be tested Decided to upgrade OS and Database together

Status Meeting Met weekly to discuss status and issues Kept meetings to an hour or less Issues requiring further discussion scheduled separately

Lessons Learned Status Meetings critical to success of project Attendance at status meetings is a priority

Future Plans Gemms upgrading to OPM 11i Maximo implementation w/ ORACLE invoicing Implement purchasing Web Reporting

Questions & Answers

Contact Me David Griffin McKee Foods Corporation david_griffin@mckee.com (423) 238-7111 ext. 2346