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November 20, 2008


Eaton Steel improves business processes with Oracle

Eaton Steel a leading distributor and processor of engineered steel bars in UK, is relying on the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Database and Oracle SOA Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware to gain insight into its supply chain network and financial results, simplify transactions with its network of partners and help reduce costs by automating key business processes.

Using Oracle Financials, Eaton Steel gained a unified view of its financial performance and transactions across all six of its subsidiaries. As a result, the company has better insight into organizational performance and can consistently refine processes to improve results.

It said that with Oracle Discrete Manufacturing, Eaton Steel is able to manage its entire steel production process, from heat treating and sizing the material to work in process to cost and quality management. Additionally, the company relies on Oracle to automatically transfer engineering specifications into production items, bills of material and routing.

Building on its successful implementation of the Oracle E-Business Suite, Eaton Steel used Oracle SOA Suite to develop a service-oriented architecture that simplifies EDI transactions with the company's wide range of business partners and helps automate the business processes around those transactions.

Using Oracle SOA Suite, Eaton Steel is developing a series of Web Services based on easily reusable code that allows its subsidiaries and partners to call up a simple Web based interface and quickly enter the relevant information, which will then be automatically routed into the Oracle E-Business Suite. This will enable Eaton Steel to automate business processes in multiple areas, such as purchase orders, invoices, and inventory management.

Mr Joe Machak vice president of Information Technology of Eaton Steel said that "Using Oracle SOA Suite to develop and integrate transactional Web services into Oracle E-Business Suite has simplified our processing and made it easier for our vendors, partners and internal employees to manage the process. Now, we can easily keep our inventory up to date and better understand the performance of our distributed manufacturing operation.”