Bridging the gap between strategy and technology needs.
Although Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have been implemented and used for many years, companies still find the following topics to be a challenge:
- Selecting the right application to enable growth at the lowest total cost of ownership
- Defining the right deployment strategy to minimize risk and deliver value quickly
- Making the best use of the functionality offered by the application
- Determining when to invest in minor or major upgrades
At MarketSphere we bring you the benefits of a broad-based perspective and the expertise to bridge the gap between your business strategy and your technology needs. Furthermore, as a Certified Advantage Partner of Oracle® in both JD Edwards EnterpriseONE™ & JD Edwards World™, our consultants have extensive, hands-on product expertise and , deep functional and technical skills.
Our services include:
- System Strategy and Selection, including systems planning, assessment, evaluation and business case development
- Implementation including strategy and planning, accelerated tools and templates, project and program management, and change management
- Technology Integration including report integration, tax integration, design and development and master data management
- Optimization and Upgrades including evaluation and planning, capability rationalization, upgrade and testing, and transition and deployment
- Managed and Technical Services including technology foundations, hosting solutions, infrastructure consulting, managed services, database administration and disaster recovery; Though a strategic partnership with ERP Suites, MarketSphere offers first class managed services for your JD Edwards environment; We manage your critical business applications, processes and infrastructure allowing you to focus on more strategic initiatives
Furthermore, our JD Edwards practice has extensive experience and continues to stay current with Oracle's evolving product strategy, including:
Capital Asset Management
The Capital Asset Management module helps drive greater value from your assets, whether they are plants, facilities, or equipment. MarketSphere can help you maximize profitability and return on investment across the entire asset lifecycle as well as improve visibility and enable management to make decisions that drive financial value. Benefits of the Capital Asset Management include:
- Extended equipment life and maximum asset availability
- Asset accounting integrity and compliance
- Increased labor productivity
- Optimized maintenance, repair, and operations inventories
- Ability to tie costs and revenue to individual assets
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Financial Management
With a great depth of experience in the Financial Management module and its family of applications, MarketSphere can help you identify the right financial foundation for your organization. Oracle's Financial Management module can help you respond more quickly to your changing environment, streamline your financial operations, and improve the accuracy of your financial reporting. By leveraginge the Financial Management family of applications, our clients are enjoying several benefits, including:
- Flexibility to make changes, including reorganizations, new distribution centers, and new product lines, into existing financial operations, without compromising the integrity of data
- Seamless integration into other financial and accounting solutions
- Easy extension of current business processes to interact and improve collaboration
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Human Capital Management (HCM)
MarketSphere not only has experience in Oracle's JD Edwards Human Capital Management solutions, we also have experience in integrating the module with others, including Financial Management and we have a Human Capital Advisory practice that can be leveraged as needed to optimize your technology investment. Our expertise will enable you to:
- Streamline processes
- Reduce administrative costs
- Automate employee performance management and career development
- Provide full featured HR compliance capabilities, such as U.S. COBRA, OSHA, EEO
- Payroll administration
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Manufacturing
Oracle's JD Edwards Manufacturing helps manufacturers develop, manufacture, and distribute products in a timely fashion. As a solution within the Supply Chain module, MarketSphere has experience in leveraging the module to improve processes that optimize resources and satisfy customer expectations about quality, price, and delivery. Other benefits include:
- Ability to integrate manufacturing strategies to improve competitiveness
- Single enterprise-wide system for all manufacturing management
- Simultaneous integration of facilities regardless of which production mode or modes
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Order Management
Also a solution within the Supply Chain Management module, Order Management enables the streamlining of order processing. MarketSphere can help you maintain visibility and control of order tracking throughout the order lifecycle, as well as:
- Coordinate order management across multiple channels and customer service and distribution centers
- Manage complex, overlapping pricing scenarios and intricate product and order configurations
- Increase revenue through higher order fill rates, cross-selling, up-selling, and the ability to execute pricing and promotions accurately to specific target market segments
- Improve profit margins through profit margin protection controls and reduced order-entry costs
- Utilize order promising engines to integrate with available product supply
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Project Management
Take control and proactively manage project costs and billing, from conception through completion with Project Management. MarketSphere can also help you view project budget, forecast, and actual amounts—in real-time—to proactively manage project costs, with built-in integration to drill down to the source transaction. Other benefits include:
- Automation of change-order approval process to expedite billing and document variations from the original project plan
- Accurately bill to the terms of contracts and service agreements to optimize cash flow
- Streamline repetitive building processes for sales, purchasing, and construction
- Integration with procurement, labor and payroll applications
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Supply Chain Planning
As the cornerstone of effective supply chain management, Supply Chain Planning offers a comprehensive solution for collaborative strategic, tactical, and operational planning, helping your company synchronize demand and supply, while opening systems to collaboration with customers, suppliers, and outsourcing partners. Couple with our Supply Chain Advisory services, MarketSphere has helped our clients optimize and rationalize business combinations, predict and plan future demand with statistical and collaborative forecasting processes, and plan tactical sourcing, pre-builds, or capacity allocations. Other benefits include:
- Improved handling of crisis situations
- Manage complex demand planning and scheduling scenarios
- Create optimal raw material sourcing, manufacturing, vehicle loading, and deployment plans across all sites
- Rapidly calculate order delivery dates based on real-world capabilities and constraints of the multi-site enterprise
- Create detailed, constraint-based factory production schedules and material plans
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