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Tiger Brands taps Oracle E-Business Suite upgrade to streamline businesses


Johannesburg, 15 Sep 2014

News summary

Tiger Brands, a leading southern African maker and marketer of fast-moving consumer goods, has implemented Oracle E-Business Suite to help streamline its leading businesses and drive international expansion of brands as diverse as baby care products, smoked sausage and skin creams.

Fact sheet
Solution: Oracle E-Business Suite
Industry: FMCG
Provider: Oracle
User: Tiger Brands

News facts

* Tiger Brands carried out an upgrade to unify the financial, sales, ordering, manufacturing, and procurement processes running its 25 leading businesses and approximately 8 000 products. A leaner, more agile platform now replaces disparate IT systems inherited over three decades of acquisitions.
* Oracle E-Business Suite has enabled Tiger Brands, which has more than 15 000 employees and distribution networks in more than 22 African countries, to move ahead with its "One Tiger" project of placing all South African operations on a single platform, in an effort to create momentum for further international growth and help the company achieve its earnings growth targets.
* The upgrade has enabled the company to replace infrastructure that had accountants working on five different systems, eliminate redundant accounting sections and save training time as employees only need to know one system. It has also given Tiger Brands better control of business processes, such as the 'catch weight' functionality that accounts for weight variance of its meat products throughout their production.
* The experienced Tiger Brands IT team, together with Accenture, a Diamond level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), quickly carried out the upgrade with minimal business downtime. The company's financial shared services team experienced immediate benefits, as single payments could be made across several business units and single log-ons provided for better efficiency and more accuracy.

Supporting quotes

"Tiger Brands' acquisitive expansion over the last 30 years had left the company with widely disparate IT systems in its varied business units across the country. Tiger Brands saw the opportunity to materially strengthen financial internal controls through the standardisation of processes, to facilitate shared services, to create visibility at all levels across the group and to extract substantial savings and synergies by bringing all the businesses onto a single Oracle software platform," said Darryl Thwaits, Chief Information Officer of Tiger Brands. "We've had a long history and excellent service with Oracle and the Oracle E-Business Suite release was the obvious choice for us."

"Oracle solutions can drive efficiency and maximise returns by applying uniform processes, increasing visibility throughout a large enterprise and supporting decision-making at both the junior and senior levels," said Kholiwe Makhohliso, Applications Sales Manager Oracle South Africa. "Tiger Brands was in an excellent position to enjoy the benefits of an upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite."

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Tiger Brands

Tiger Brands is a leading branded FMCG company, focused on emerging markets, that has its origins and is based in South Africa and which has expanded its interests into the rest of Africa and South America. It is one of the largest manufacturers and leading marketers of FMCG products in Africa and a top 40 JSE listed company with leading brands in the food, beverages, personal care and home care categories. The organisation has been built through the development of its own brands and the acquisition of other leading brands, businesses and companies.

In recent years, the company has expanded its footprint into the rest of Africa such that it now holds interests in Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, while exporting to over 30 African countries. Tiger Brands prides itself on being a world-class manufacturer and marketer in the FMCG categories in which it operates, and strives to consistently deliver quality products with which consumers can have a positive experience and enjoy.

For more information, visit: www.tigerbrands.com.

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