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Atlanta OAUG Member Spotlight

Atlanta OAUG Member Spotlight. Agenda. Who Is Porex Corporation Scope of Project Project Timeline Applications Environment Hardware & Database Configuration Success Factors Lessons Learned Porex’s Future. Historical Perspective. 1998 – Point Plastics (California)

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Atlanta OAUG Member Spotlight

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  1. Atlanta OAUG Member Spotlight

  2. Agenda • Who Is Porex Corporation • Scope of Project • Project Timeline • Applications Environment • Hardware & Database Configuration • Success Factors • Lessons Learned • Porex’s Future

  3. Historical Perspective • 1998 – Point Plastics (California) • 1999 – The KippGroup (California) • 1999 – Mupor Limited (Scotland) • 2000 – Fiber manufacturing assets (Malaysia) • Founded in Fairburn, GA • Initial salesin WIC Market • Greenfield expansion into Germany • Acquisition of Sintair Ltd. (UK) • Acquisition of Esters Filtertechnik 2004 1961 1970-1980 1990 2000 2003 • Porex Scientific • Advances inproductioncapabilities ledto new marketopportunities • Industrial • Healthcare • Consumer • Porex Surgical Inc. • Point Plastics sold • KippGroup sold • Acquisition of Interflo Technologies (NY)

  4. Scotland • Germany 2 facilities • Atlanta 3 facilities • Malaysia Business Overview Business Description: Porous media solutions used in filtering, wicking, diffusing, venting, muffling, membrane support and control of fluid and gas flow Product Examples: Writing instrument components, wicks for fragrance release, pipette tip filters, air and water filtration products, diagnostic components, serum separators Product Types: OEM components and finished products Sales Channel: Direct OEM sales Distribution for finished products Sales by Geography: 57% United States 42% International CY 2005 Budget: Sales - $72.6 million

  5. POROUS PRODUCTS GROUP • Fairburn, Georgia, USA • Bautzen, Germany • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia • Alness, Scotland • Aachen, Germany • SURGICAL PRODUCTS GROUP • Newnan, Georgia, USA • Munich, Germany

  6. Scope of Project

  7. Scope of Project • Driving Factors • Common Application Platform • Information availability at a corporate level • Process commonality used by all divisions • Preparation for Sarbanes-Oxley audit

  8. Project Timeline • Porex Surgical Go Live • Mupor Scotland Go Live • Porex Malaysia Go Live • Porex Germany GmbH Oct 2002 Mar 2003 Sep 2003 Oct 2003 Jun 2004 2005 2006 • Porex Fairburn Go Live • Porex Surgical GmbH Go Live • Fine Tuning • Move to Linux • 11.5.10 Upgrade

  9. Applications Environment • Inventory • Accounts Payable • Bill of Materials • Accounts Receivables • Work in Process • General Ledger • Procurement • Fixed Assets • Order Management • Warehouse Management

  10. Applications Environment • Oracle Applications • Release 11.5.6

  11. Applications Environment • Inventory • 5 Inventory Org’s • Items shared across org’s • Items lot controlled • Inter-company transfers • 10,135 Master Org Items

  12. Applications Environment • Bill of Materials • 4 Org’s • Org specific • 2 to 3 Levels deep • Used for backflushing • Roll-up for Std Cost • 6,613 BOM’s

  13. Applications Environment • Work in Process • 4 Org’s • Org specific • Combination of Discrete Jobs & Work Orderless Completion

  14. Applications Environment • Procurement • Used by all org’s • Designated buyers • Requisitions not currently used • Outside Processing • 4,756 PO’s issued in CY 2004

  15. Applications Environment • Order Management • Used by all org’s • Customers shared across org’s • Pricing by org • Multi-currency pricing • Heavy use of Data Flexfields • 6,039 Bill-To Addresses • 2,080 Ship-To Addresses • 22,572 Sales Orders entered for CY 2004

  16. Applications Environment • Accounts Payable • Installed at all org’s • Electronic banking • Auto-deposit • Positive Pay

  17. Applications Environment • Accounts Receivable • Used by all org’s • Managed at each org • 26,664 Invoices issued in CY 2004

  18. Applications Environment • General Ledger • Common Chart of Accounts • 8,251 Code Combinations • Common Calendar • Multiple Currencies • U.S. Dollars, Euros, British Pounds, Malaysia RInggets • All foreign currencies consolidated into U.S. Dollars • ADI used for J/E imports and budgeting • F9 for financial reporting • Recent Calendar Year change

  19. Applications Environment • Fixed Assets • Used by 4 org’s • Maintained by corporate office • Multi-currencies • Maintain Corporate & Tax Books • 13,092 Assets

  20. Applications Environment • Warehouse Management • Developed in-house • Interfaced with Oracle Inventory module • Bar-coded inventory • Able to track genealogy of manufactured products

  21. Applications Environment • Custom Forms • Forms developer Optio • Maintenance intensive • Plans to move all custom forms to PDF/Adobe

  22. Hardware & Database Configuration • Sun/Solaris ver. 8 • Instances • 1 Production • 2 Development • Oracle Database ver. 8.1.74

  23. Success Factors • Consultants • 4 – 5 consultants • Utilized for first two sites • Teams within Porex • Each functional area • Conference Room Pilots • Multiple passes of end-to-end processing

  24. Porex’s Future • Hardware Upgrade • Dell Linux • Red Hat ver. 3.0 • Software Upgrade • Release 11.5.10 • Future Implementations • Porex GmbH (Bautzen) • Re-engineering • Centralize functional areas

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