Company Type
NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), a government-funded scientific research organization; JD Edwards → PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne 8.10 upgrade directed in the same program.
What Drove the Need
A 250-member engineering team ramping the ALMA project ran requisitions on paper
Business Impact
7 procurement processes digitalized in 4 months; 90 participants trained (Case 22)
Systems/Data Integration
JDE procurement, RFQ, approvals, and supplier contract management
Design
Six review/design sessions; five formal presentations; a four-round prototyping schedule; eight policy-process-procedure documents published; two rounds of prototyping (~15 sessions); 90 participants trained across ~20 half-day sessions in three weeks
Technology Stack
JDE EnterpriseOne 8.10 (Procurement, RFQ, PO Approvals, Supplier Contract Management)
Web-based requisition and approval
Web-Based Requisition and Approval System on EnterpriseOne 8.10
Migration from a paper-based internal requisition process to a web-based, real-time requisition and approval system, with seven further procurement processes re-engineered.
