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Aluar Aluminio Argentino S.A.I.C. Improves Analysis and Decision-Making

Overview Aluar is the only producer of primary aluminum and the most important provider of semi-fabricated aluminum in Argentina. The company wanted to update the company's 10-year-old technology, taking advantage of unified, integrated support processes in the plants of the group, based in Puerto Madryn (Chubut State) and Abasto (Buenos Aires State). The challenges were to offer high level service necessary to financial and management process and give the company the opportunity to operate new industrial manufacturing processes, due to the integrated system. The company implemented a wide range of Oracle E-Business Suite modules to integrate company's activities and by using Oracle Purchasing as the infrastructure for corporate level purchases; integrated catalog items from suppliers, increasing the company's negotiating power for procurement contracts.

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Publisher	Oracle	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Procurement - Purchasing, Finance, Procurement and Sourcing

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