Oracle e-Business Suite V11.5.

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Presentation by Edgen for the Baton Rouge Oracle Users Group

Who/What is Edgen?
Formed in 1996 through purchase of Thomas Pipe and Steel $45MM sales; one location; 30 employees Acquisitions in 1997 (Arrow), 1998 (Bartow), 1999 (Radnor), 2000 (Resource), 2001 (ProMetals), 2002 (SISCO), 2005 (Western Flow) $280MM+ sales; 15 locations; 235 employees Number 7 in Top 100 privately held companies in Baton Rouge (2005 revenue)

Where is Edgen?

Who/What is Edgen?
Formed in 1996 through purchase of Thomas Pipe and Steel $45MM sales; one location; 30 employees Acquisitions in 1997 (Arrow), 1998 (Bartow), 1999 (Radnor), 2000 (Resource), 2001 (ProMetals), 2002 (SISCO), 2005 (Western Flow) $280MM+ sales; 15 locations; 235 employees Number 7 in Top 100 privately held companies in Baton Rouge (2005 revenue) MIM acquisition/merger in 2005 - $700MM+ sales; 20 locations; 375 employees

So: Why Oracle Apps?

Support for Global Functionality
Operate in One World with One Solution
No Language Boundaries
- Support for 30 languages - Multi-lingual external documents - All languages installable in same Unicode instance

No Currency Boundaries No Legislative Boundaries

- Customers operating in 100+ countries - Support for statutory & customary local requirements

Oracle Delivers Efficiency

Accelerate the Close Process
Rapidly Consolidate Financial Information Across Different Entities and for Multiple Currencies, Charts of Accounts, Periods Streamline Inter-Company Accounting and Reconciliation Automate Labor Intensive Processes

Accelerated Close Process

Achieve Performance Scalability

Ledger Drilldown and Integration

Enhance the Reconciliation and Analysis Process
General Ledger

Drill down from

General Ledger to sub-ledgers impact of transactions in General Ledger and in sub-ledgers

Display accounting

Sub-Ledgers Payables Assets Receivables

T-account format Trial balance format

Projects

Purchasing

Inventory

Work in Process

Oracle Financial Management

VISIBILITY Deliver Better Business Information

CONTROL Attain Sustainable Compliance

EFFICIENCY Improve Business Processes at the Lowest Cost

Oracle Apps History

Spring 2001 Negotiation and purchase of software Late fall 2001 Begin implementation process with vendor Summer 2002 Kick vendor out Fall 2002 Restart implementation process with Oracle Consulting Svcs. Jan. 2003 Live with first Edgen Division Dec. 2003 Final Division converted

E-Business Suite whats in it?

Financials (AP,AR,GL, FA) Order Management Inventory Management Purchasing Human Resources Business Intelligence, Marketing, Manufacturing, Projects, Service (contracts) Workflow

Activity at Edgen
(all numbers are 2005 monthly averages)

3300 Sales Orders 3600 Invoices 900 Purchase Orders 3475 Shipments 3100 A/P Checks

Oracle Technology Stack

2-tier Architecture Apps and database both run on RS6000 (db AIX v5.3; apps AIX v5.2) Apps server IBM630; 4-way; 1.45GHz Power 4+ processors; 8GB RAM DB server IBM570; 4-way; 1.9GHz Power 5+ processors; 16GB RAM Storage IBM FAStT700; approx. 400Gb (three environments - PROD & 2 test)

Oracle Technology Stack

Oracle Enterprise Edition database
(and other software used in support of the Oracle applications)

Enterprise Edition Database V9.2.0.6.0 Oracle Forms V6.0 Discoverer V4.1.48 FormScape V3.3 FileNet - VP8 3.5.2 TOAD V8.06 STAT V5.22

Oracle Technology Stack

Oracle Enterprise Edition database 134 schemas 7,442 tables 23,183 views 405 tablespaces 35,450 objects (triggers, packages, etc.) 1378 Oracle responsibilities

Architecture
Portal Servlet Engine Java Server Pages (JSP)
http JDBC (Thin)

Web Listener

AOLJ Discoverer PL/SQL Gateway Reports Forms Concurrent Manager

TNS (Net8)

Data Server Tier

Clients

Application Tier

Edgen Support Staff: Chris, Shannon, and Miranda!!!

Edgen staff is augmented as needed through relationships with third-party vendors such as DCC.

QUESTIONS?