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Butler Manufacturing Company Streamlines Business Processes to Increase Profitability

Overview Butler Manufacturing Company, a BlueScope Steel Company, is a building-solutions company providing the design, manufacture, and marketing of metal building systems for commercial construction. The company wanted to replace outdated legacy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and centralize business processes. The challenge was to improve efficiency by integrating manufacturing, planning, and supply chain with order management and sales and increase profitability. The company worked with Deloitte Consulting to implement Oracle Financials, Oracle Manufacturing, Oracle Order Management, Oracle Advanced Supply Chain, and Oracle Configurator to fully integrate and streamline business processes. The company also consolidated 37 disparate systems and eliminated silos and reduced inventory, allowing the company to operate in a lean environment.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Oracle	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	ERP, Business Management, Supply Chain Management

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