Company Type
Briggs Corp, a medical supplies distributor and commercial printer; built after JDE's Enterprise Profitability Solutions proved inoperable.
What Drove the Need
No activity-level profitability visibility across 60M monthly transactions; JDE's EPS module was inoperable
Business Impact
Over $5M in cost recovery identified — a top product unprofitable due to sales commissions and a distribution channel unprofitable due to SG&A; Whale Curve analysis drove executive action (Case 34)
Systems/Data Integration
JDE sales, inventory, manufacturing, purchasing, A/R, A/P, and GL tables; Sylvon data warehouse (SE-25)
Design
Executive approval secured through market research including in-person interviews with Owens & Minor executives, the ABC pioneers
Designed a custom system integrated with SOP, Inventory, Manufacturing, Purchasing, A/R, A/P, and GL tables; monthly extraction and compilation of ~60GB
Technology Stack
RPG on AS/400-DB2
Co-existent JDE OneWorld XE and World ERP
Sylvon BI presentation layer (see SE-25)
Rate-Based ABC (Activity-Based Costing) Application
Rate-based ABC program measuring profitability of markets, buying groups, customers, sales orders, product lines, products, purchase orders, and vendors — a custom system mirroring EPS with surpassed functionality, integrated with sales, inventory, manufacturing, purchasing, A/R, A/P, and GL.
