Atrion Realizes Value with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.2
Atrion is a leading supplier of medical devices and components to niche markets in the healthcare and medical industry. To optimize efficiencies and improve data accuracy, Atrion decided to upgrade to JD Edwards E1 9.2.
Explore how a leading Medical Device Manufacturer that specializes in converting their customers’ ideas, concepts & designs from functional prototypes to innovative, high-quality finished products modernized sales processes, gained 360-degree insight into customer data and integrated front-end CRM and back-end ERP systems to optimize efficiencies and data accuracy across the entire organization. To accomplish this, the company upgraded to JDE E1 9.2 and implemented Oracle Engagement Cloud.
Challenges
- Extremely old XE system, huge delta in JDE between XE and 9.2
- Isolated JDE system, not well integrated with related software
- Security model was not very robust, and was not SOX comppliant
- JDE XE was not able to keep up with the requirements of business
- No good reporting solution over JDE
- CRM solution needed for sales
Business Requirements
- Upgrade to JDE 9.2
- Complete chart of account redesign
- Implement JDE Quality, Capital Asset Management (CAMS) and Engineering Changes Order (ECO) modules
- Reimplement sales and purchasing modules
- Use BI Publisher for generating better quality outward facing documents
- Implement barcoding and labelling solution for warehousing and shop floor
- Business Process Reengineering, and plug in functional gaps wherever there are pain points
- Redesign security from Open Model to Deny All
- Implement Reporting solution over JDE
Customer Benefits
- Upgrade to latest apps and tools release of JDE
- Running on supported hardware
- Integrations modernized per latest standards
- Better visibility and data integrity
- Automation of certain prior manual processes, such as Bank Processes
Lessons Learned
- Engagement required strong project management and change management methodology
- Multiple data conversion cycles required due to underlying data model changes and new modules implementation
- Warehouse Automation
- Mobile Field CRM enabled
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