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Agenda

Who Is Porex Corporation

Scope of Project

Project Timeline

Applications Environment

Hardware & Database Configuration

Success Factors

Lessons Learned

Porex’s Future

Historical Perspective

1961

Porex Surgical Inc.

Founded in Fairburn, GA

Initial salesin WIC Market

1970-1980 1990

Greenfield expansion into Germany

Acquisition of

Sintair Ltd. (UK)

2000

1998 – Point Plastics (California) 1999 – The KippGroup (California) 1999 – Mupor Limited (Scotland) 2000 – Fiber manufacturing assets

(Malaysia)

Advances inproductioncapabilities ledto new marketopportunities

Industrial Healthcare Consumer

Porex Scientific

Acquisition of Interflo Technologies (NY)

2003

Point Plastics sold KippGroup sold

Acquisition of

Esters Filtertechnik

2004

Business Overview

Atlanta3 facilities

Germany2 facilities

Scotland

Malaysia

Business Description: Porous media solutions used in filtering, wicking, diffusing, venting, muffling, membrane support and control of fluid and gas flow

Product Examples: Writing instrument components, wicks for fragrance release, pipette tip filters, air and water filtration products, diagnostic components, serum separators

Product Types: OEM components and finished products

Sales Channel: Direct OEM salesDistribution for finished products

Sales by Geography: 57% United States42% International

CY 2005 Budget: Sales - $72.6 million

POROUS PRODUCTS GROUP

Fairburn, Georgia, USA

Bautzen, Germany

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Alness, Scotland

Aachen, Germany

SURGICAL PRODUCTS GROUP

Newnan, Georgia, USA

Munich, Germany

Scope of Project

Application Porex Porex Tech Porex Porex Porex

Software Corporate Corp Surgical Europe UK

Budgets MS Excel MS Excel MS Excel MS Excel MS Excel

General Ledger Plt SQL Plt SQL Plt SQL Plt SQL Plt SQL

General Ledger Rpts Plt SQL Plt SQL Plt SQL Plt SQL Plt SQL

Financial Reports Excel & FRx Excel & FRx Excel & FRx Excel & FRx Excel & FRx

Payroll Magic v5.6 Magic v5.6 Magic v5.6 Apple/Mac Pegasus

Accounts Receivable - Unisys A14 PFD v4.6 PFD v4.6 Pegasus

Accounts Payable Plt SQL Plt SQL Plt SQL Plt SQL Plt SQL

EDI / EC - Harbinger - - -

Order Entry - Unisys A14 PFD v4.6 PFD v4.6 Pegasus

Inventory Control - Unisys A14 PFD v4.6 PFD v4.6 Pegasus

Bar Coding - Magic v5.6 - - -

Costing - Unisys A14 Unisys A14 MS Excel MS Excel

Purchase Order PFD v4.6 PFD v4.6 PFD v4.6 PFD v4.6 Pegasus

Job Cost PFD v4.6 PFD v4.6 * MS Excel MS Excel

Fixed Assets Best F/A * * Konto MS Excel

Bank Book MS Excel * * PFD v4.6 -

Foreign Currency Mgr Plt SQL - - Plt SQL Plt SQL

Porex ConsolidatedUS Dollar

United KingdomPound Sterling

AsiaRinggits

GermanyEuro

UnitedStates

US Dollar

BautzenGER

BautzenGER

BautzenGER

MuporUK

MuporUK

MuporUK

MalaysiaMAL

MalaysiaMAL

MalaysiaMAL

FairburnGA

FairburnGA

FairburnGA

NewnanGA

Chart of Accounts - StandardCalendar - 12 PeriodsReporting to WebMD

Consolidated

Set of Books

Legal Entity

Operating Unit(AR, AP, OE,

PONY Gl only)

InventoryOrganization

Global Chart of Accounts Item Master Customer Master Vendor Master

TranslateConsolidate

NewnanGA

NewnanGA

NewnanGA

Multi-Organization Enterprise

MunichGER

MunichGER

MunichGER

Scope of Project

Driving FactorsCommon Application Platform Information availability at a corporate levelProcess commonality used by all divisionsPreparation for Sarbanes-Oxley audit

Project Timeline

Oct 2002

Porex Surgical Go Live

Mar 2003 Sep 2003

Mupor Scotland Go Live

Jun 2004

Porex Fairburn Go Live

Porex Malaysia Go Live

Oct 2003

Porex Surgical GmbH Go Live

2005

Fine Tuning Move to Linux 11.5.10 Upgrade

2006

Porex Germany GmbH

Applications Environment

• Inventory • Accounts Payable

• Bill of Materials • Accounts Receivables

• Work in Process • General Ledger

• Procurement • Fixed Assets

• Order Management • Warehouse Management

Applications Environment

Oracle ApplicationsRelease 11.5.6

Applications Environment

Inventory5 Inventory Org’s Items shared across org’s Items lot controlled Inter-company transfers10,135 Master Org Items

Applications Environment

Bill of Materials4 Org’sOrg specific2 to 3 Levels deepUsed for backflushingRoll-up for Std Cost6,613 BOM’s

Applications Environment

Work in Process4 Org’sOrg specificCombination of Discrete Jobs & Work Orderless

Completion

Applications Environment

ProcurementUsed by all org’sDesignated buyersRequisitions not currently usedOutside Processing4,756 PO’s issued in CY 2004

Applications Environment

Order ManagementUsed by all org’sCustomers shared across org’sPricing by orgMulti-currency pricingHeavy use of Data Flexfields6,039 Bill-To Addresses2,080 Ship-To Addresses22,572 Sales Orders entered for CY 2004

Applications Environment

Accounts Payable Installed at all org’sElectronic banking

Auto-depositPositive Pay

Applications Environment

Accounts ReceivableUsed by all org’sManaged at each org26,664 Invoices issued in CY 2004

Applications Environment

General LedgerCommon Chart of Accounts

8,251 Code CombinationsCommon CalendarMultiple Currencies

U.S. Dollars, Euros, British Pounds, Malaysia RInggets

All foreign currencies consolidated into U.S. DollarsADI used for J/E imports and budgetingF9 for financial reporting

Recent Calendar Year change

Applications Environment

Fixed AssetsUsed by 4 org’sMaintained by corporate officeMulti-currenciesMaintain Corporate & Tax Books13,092 Assets

Applications Environment

Warehouse ManagementDeveloped in-house

Interfaced with Oracle Inventory moduleBar-coded inventoryAble to track genealogy of manufactured products

Applications Environment

Custom FormsForms developer Optio

Maintenance intensivePlans to move all custom forms to PDF/Adobe

Hardware & Database Configuration

Sun/Solaris ver. 8 Instances

1 Production2 Development

Oracle Database ver. 8.1.74

Success Factors

Consultants4 – 5 consultants

Utilized for first two sites

Teams within PorexEach functional area

Conference Room PilotsMultiple passes of end-to-end processing

Porex’s Future

Hardware UpgradeDell LinuxRed Hat ver. 3.0

Software UpgradeRelease 11.5.10

Future ImplementationsPorex GmbH (Bautzen)

Re-engineeringCentralize functional areas