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Customer Profile

Customer Profile. Presented By: David Griffin, DBA McKee Foods Corporation. McKee Foods Corporation Background. Founded by OD and Ruth McKee in 1934 First bakery to produce individually wrapped cakes in a multipack carton Little Debbie produces 75 varieties of snack cakes

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Customer Profile

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  1. Customer Profile Presented By: David Griffin, DBA McKee Foods Corporation

  2. McKee Foods CorporationBackground • Founded by OD and Ruth McKee in 1934 • First bakery to produce individually wrapped cakes in a multipack carton • Little Debbie produces 75 varieties of snack cakes • Annual sales are approximately $930M • Five production facilities in three states

  3. Pre 11i Environment • HP K460 2GM, 3 processors, 140G disk space • 10.7 SC • Modules • General Ledger • Fixed Assets • Account Payables • Project Accounting • Eight years of historical data • Integrated with GEMMS application

  4. Financials History • Financials implemented in 1994 • Upgraded to 10.7 SC in 1997 • Project Accounting implemented in 1998 • Integrated with GEMMS in October 1999

  5. Project Timeline • Upgrade Assessment October 2001 -Boss Corporation & O’Reilly & Associates • Request for Proposal January 2002 • Project began February 4, 2002 • Moved to new server, upgrade OS and database on April 19, 2002 • Went live on 11i on May 1, 2002

  6. McKee Implementation Team • McKee – Technical Team Application Administrator Database Administrator Developer (2)

  7. Consulting Team • Deloitte Consulting • Project Manager • Functional Lead • Technical Lead • Database Administrator • Developer(4) • Oracle Consulting • Developers(2)

  8. Project Challenges • Hardware had not been ordered • Needed to close one period on 11i prior to year-end • Accounting changes implemented with year-end • GEMMS was not upgrading to OPM

  9. Test Environments • 10.7 on HPUX 11.0 • 10.7 on HPUX 11.0 and ORACLE 8.1.7.3 • Oracle Applications 11.5.5

  10. Test – Test and More Test • Each environment had to be tested • Decided to upgrade OS and Database together

  11. Status Meeting • Met weekly to discuss status and issues • Kept meetings to an hour or less • Issues requiring further discussion scheduled separately

  12. Lessons Learned • Status Meetings critical to success of project • Attendance at status meetings is a priority

  13. Future Plans • Gemms upgrading to OPM 11i • Maximo implementation w/ ORACLE invoicing • Implement purchasing • Web Reporting

  14. Questions & Answers

  15. Contact Me David GriffinMcKee Foods Corporationdavid_griffin@mckee.com(423) 238-7111 ext. 2346

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