ABOUT CUSTOMER
A non-profit institution spread across 11 African countries that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty and natural resource degradation.
BUSINESS NEED
- Customer was on very unstable out-of-support Oracle EBS version.
- Customer wanted to move away from Solaris platform to avoid licensing costs
- Used an outdated custom application for managing grants and donations
- Manual processes and CoA issues limiting the application usability
- Centralized system not catering the needs on business expansion and limiting the information/transaction definition
SERVICES OFFERED
- Platform migration from Sun-Solaris to Oracle Red Hat Linux
- EBS upgrade from 12.2.0 to latest 12.2.7 version
- Enhancements to CoA structure for wider EBS acceptance with minimal impact to ongoing business
- Implementation of Grants Accounting to phase-out custom app
- Implementation of new modules and reports for enhanced coverage of EBS across organization
BENEFITS
- Latest and stable EBS instance increasing application availability
- Optimized the Payment process
- Financial Reporting from system
- Improvements on Customer/Donor Reporting
- Correct picturization of Donor funding and Funding Vs Actuals
- Optimized Approval processes across subledgers
- Decentralized system catering the local requirements and consolidation for Head-Quarters
TECHNOLOGY
Oracle EBS 12.2.0/12.2.7, Oracle APEX, Oracle Linux, Solaris