eBusiness Implementation Irene Griffith / Kevin Palmer

Speakers Irene Griffith –Senior Consultant, Asparona Kevin Palmer –Financial Controller, TrustPower

Modules Implemented General Ledger Accounts Payable Fixed Assets Cash Management

Key Requirements NZ & Australia Multiple Companies in both countries Consolidated financial reporting in NZD Multiple GST reporting requirements

The Good …… TrustPower people Experience with Modules Sub Ledger Accounting FA Reports E-Business Tax Minimal Modifications Location

…. and the Not so Good E-Business Tax AP Trial Balance Supplier Interface

Key Setup Differences – 11i / R12 General Ledger Tax Sub Ledger Accounting Suppliers Bank Accounts and Payments User Management

Key User Differences – 11i / R12 Suppliers AP Invoice entry GST Payment processing Report Layouts Financial Reporting (Web ADI) Look & Feel

Challenges Difference between TrustPower systems & Oracle Translating Oracle processes to non-Oracle people Understanding external systems enough to build good interfaces

eBusiness Implementation TrustPower Perspective Kevin Palmer Financial Controller

Timeline InitiationConfigurationTestingBedding Down Go Live Project Start

Project Success factors Pragmatic and commercial Functional Architect Pragmatic and commercial TrustPower team Implemented by owners Very good knowledge of existing systems Efficient decision making Project management Established implementation methodology Prototyping Short time frame – focussed effort Go live at balance date Vanilla implementation

Next Time We Would… Have a longer implementation period Be finished two months before go live Do more testing Implement Discoverer on go live

Ebusiness – What we like Multi currency Multi company Structure Fixed Asset Register Drill down enquiry from reports Web Based Better reporting Supported and upgradable

Ebusiness – What could improve On screen enquiry Reporting Overall look and feel

Would we do it Again? YES - Definitely