1. Taconic Farms – Prophix story
Operating since: 1952
Head office: Hudson, New York
Annual revenue: > $100 million
Number of employees: Unknown
G/L or ERP: Oracle
Company website:
Company background:
Taconic is a global provider of genetically modified mouse and rat models and services. As a full-service industry leader, founded in 1952, Taconic helps clients acquire, test, develop, breed, cryopreserve, prepare, and distribute highly relevant research lines worldwide. Whether you require custom genetically engineered, humanized or research-ready models, Taconic's scientists will partner with you to rapidly and efficiently obtain the high quality models needed for your discovery or preclinical programs.
About Taconic’s Prophix solution:
This organization’s Oracle ERP integrates fully with Prophix. With a highly-skilled financial analysis group and access to complete information, the company conducts profitability analysis, contrasting, among others, the following factors:
Revenue planning, based on site, pharmaceutical or research customers, product (cage rats or mice, different types of isolators for housing the animals, rental space for test specimens, etc.), incubations costs, and transportation costs

2. Taconic Farms – Prophix story
About Taconic’s Prophix solution (continued):
Personnel planning, tracking employee expenses in multiple countries, factoring in different taxes, benefits, and other considerations in each location
Evaluating inventory, based on numbers of cages in use, types of cages (or ‘isolators’), and the health status of mice and rats
Analysis of costs, by cage
Cages in use per strain/per project/per barrier
Cages in use as above + unutilized capacity
The organization plans to further develop their sales and inventory planning processes to integrate with their demand planning. This integration will allow them to anticipate the needs of their customers and contrast this with their capacity to meet those requirements.
The company has also built an activity-based costing model to collect and allocate costs at the highly granular level, based on statistical cost drivers. This analysis enables them to determine the cost of each major operational activity and to pinpoint the profitability of products and of specific customer relationships. The company then uses their modeling capabilities to evaluate the impact of different cost and resource allocation strategies.
Finally, the organization has improved their managers’ accountability for financial performance by standardizing and streamlining financial management reporting—ultimately reducing their reliance on finance staff for access to business information.

3. Supporting data: Life cycle Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ New implementation
Implementation date: ________________________
☐ Preexisting customer YES
Original implementation date: Q2 2006
☐ Existing customer, upgrading
Original implementation date: ________________
Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ Agriculture, forestry, and fishing
☐ Professional services
☐ Financial services
☐ Retail
☐ Wholesale and distribution
☐ Telecommunications
☐ Healthcare
☐ Utilities
☐ Education
☐ Architecture, engineering, and construction
☐ Life science YES (biotechnology)
☐ Transportation and logistics
☐ Manufacturing
☐ High tech
☐ Media and entertainment
☐ Government
☐ Non-profit

4. Supporting data: Solutions Capabilities ☐ Budgeting YES
☐ Automation YES
☐ Forecasting YES
☐ Prophix Mobile
☐ Reporting YES
☐ Data integration YES
☐ Strategic planning
☐ Business modeling YES
☐ Financial consolidation
☐ Microsoft platform integration
☐ Analysis YES
☐ Role-based security YES
☐ Profitability analysis YES
☐ Collaboration YES
☐ Personnel planning YES
☐ Flexible deployment
☐ Project planning YES
☐ Ad hoc reporting and visualization YES
☐ Revenue planning YES
☐ Capital expenditures planning
☐ Reporting and analytics
(dashboards and scorecards)