Major corporations and multinationals are adopting J.D. Edwards` OneWorld(R) Xe enterprise business system for collaborative commerce with customers and suppliers.
In December 2000, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) announced that it had purchased OneWorld(R) Xe. ADM procures, transports, stores, processes and merchandises agricultural commodities and products, and is one of the world`s largest processors of oilseeds, corn and wheat with over 22,000 employees worldwide, 368 processing plants, and net sales in excess of $12.8 billion. The company faces the challenge of integrating multiple facilities and supply chain processes throughout the world, while accommodating localized business requirements, and language differences.
"In our business, we must have open communication with all of our supply chain partners regardless of their location. J.D. Edwards` OneWorld Xe provides us with a highly scalable, technology foundation as well as the applications to allow us to continue to expand our operations, streamline our global business practices and still accommodate local country requirements," said John D. McNamara, President of ADM.
In addition to traditional business operations, ADM also participates in various industry trading exchanges where it encounters numerous trading partners. The OneWorld Xe solution will help enable ADM to simultaneously engage with multiple online buyers and sellers, to increase market share and drive additional revenues.
Also in December, The Pfaltzgraff Co., a manufacturing company based in Pennsylvania, implemented OneWorld to facilitate collaboration among its operations, manage its wholesale and manufacturing operations, and handle its importing and distribution needs. In addition to managing Pfaltzgraff`s multiple facilities, the company intends to eventually use OneWorld to handle collaborative transactions with its suppliers.
"Pfaltzgraff is divided into several operations across North America and Mexico, and we needed an agile solution that could handle the various demands of those operations" said Clair Bange, Pfaltzgraff`s vice president of information services. "We have separate operations for manufacturing, importing, exporting, wholesaling, Company-owned retail stores, and the Internet, so we needed a software system that could not only tackle our financial tasks, but also allow us to collaborate among the operations. J.D. Edwards gave us the power to integrate and streamline operations on a global basis."
Pfaltzgraff compared software products from several vendors, including SAP, Oracle, Baan, and PeopleSoft. "We selected J.D. Edwards due to its user-friendliness, its versatility and its ability to meet our business needs, now and in the future," said Bange.
"Our solution gives organisations, ranging from large, global enterprises to medium-sized companies, the tools to effectively collaborate along the extended supply chain, and in a web-client environment. J.D. Edwards also provides our customers the freedom to choose custom applications and the best complementary technologies, and easily integrate them directly into the OneWorld Xe system," said Mike Evans, Managing Director of J.D. Edwards South Africa.
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