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

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. 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

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

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

8. 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

9. Test Environments 10.7 on HPUX 11.0
10.7 on HPUX 11.0 and ORACLE
Oracle Applications

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

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

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

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

14. Questions & Answers

15. Contact Me
David Griffin McKee Foods Corporation (423) ext. 2346