National Radio Astronomy Observatory — Government-Funded Scientific Organization, 250+ Engineers
Client Challenge
Operations digitalization required to support a 250-member engineering team ramping up the ALMA telescope project in Chile
Monthly payroll re-keying consumed days and produced errors
Three data centers and three separate JDE installations needed consolidation
Client Solution
Procurement Digitalization: Implemented 7 procurement processes in JDE in 4 months — paper requisitions to web-based real-time approval; 15 prototyping sessions; 90 participants trained
Payroll Automation: Middleware automating ADP payroll imports into the JDE General Ledger
Consolidation: Intelligent conversion design — merged data, converted chart of accounts for Job Costing, converted Fixed Assets — collapsing a 2-year plan into 5 months
Client Impact Results
Fee Avoidance: 19 months of projected consulting fees eliminated, plus two JDE subscriptions and two data centers of OpEx
Payroll: Monthly multi-day re-keying reduced to under 5 minutes
Procurement: 7 processes digitalized; 90 users trained; real-time requisition and approval
Client Technologies
JDE EnterpriseOne 8.10 (Procurement, RFQ, PO Approvals, Supplier Contract Management)
JDE World 7.3 (GL, Encumbrance Procurement)
ADP payroll integration middleware
Data conversion engineering
