“Harmony of Oracle Cloud for EPM and BI”

Elaine McKechnieHead of Group MISBaxters Food Group

Neil SellersDirector

Qubix International Ltd

THE BAXTERS STORY

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The Company• Baxters Food Group is a 4th generation family owned business, established in the

Highlands of Scotland in 1868.

• We make premium quality food products, all long life shelf stable in a wide range of packaging formats.

• Our current Chairman is Audrey Baxter, a visionary entrepreneur who has driven the company through a period of phenomenally successful growth.

• 12 years ago we were UK based turnover of USD $75Million.

• We now have a significant international footprint and a turnover of USD $½ Billion

• Much of our growth has come through acquisition, and we will continue to build our business this way.

• Our ambition is to reach USD $1Billion within the next 10 years.

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Global footprint

EUROPE

SOUTH AFRICA

NORTH

& SOUTH

AMERICAAUSTRALASIA

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Wornick Foods helps brand owners

successfully innovate and grow with

convenience driven products that

address consumer’s demand for

wholesome,

better tasting, ready-to-serve foods.

Moving the bar….

BUSINESS CHALLENGESAND

THE IMPORTANCE OF ORACLE

Embracing new technologies

• Tools to enable the business to make informed decisions

• Fast , consistent and accurate information

• Visualisation formats to suit the management style

• Drive the focus on the delivery requirements

How Oracle has helped so far

WHAT I HAVE CURRENTLY!

• An ERP platform that has been rolled out through 6 implementations and been totally stable throughout.

• Transparency of core data.

• Centralised data governance for the Group

• Robust transactional entry processes thanks to Oracle Process Flows.

WHAT INFORMATION DO I GET ?

• Profitability by customer, by product, by brand, by geography down to SKU

• Group wide standardised management accounts.

• A consolidation process that copes with multiple currencies.

• An in-house developed solution for production planning and gross margin forecasting.

• Too much data and too little information.

• Too much finance time spent collating reports not analysing results.

• Spreadsheets, spreadsheets, spreadsheets = BUSINESS RISK!!!

BUT ..

What we had …

Essbaseforecasting

system

UK Gross Margin auto

output

Group wide (excl Wornick)

overhead input

templates

1x Group consolidating

primary statement

model

Manor & Retail offline P&L models

4x business unit primary statement

models

Wornick auto output primary

statements

Oracle

WornickForecasting

System

Canada & Oz gross margin

models

AutomatedManual

Retail & Manor budgets prepared off-line in own

full P&L models

Standards & prices loaded into Essbase

automatically

UK sales teams provide volumes, direct entry into

Essbase

Essbase provides GL lines for Sales

to GM onto spreadsheet

Oz & Canada sales teams provide

volumes, entry into off line model

Once Can & Oz finance happy with

volumes, provided to UK to load into

Essbase Standards & prices loaded into offline

model

Cost centre managers provide spend figures

into spreadsheets

Finance upload overheads into Oracle

Finance uploads Essbase output to

GL

Finance uploads trial balances into

Oracle

Wornick forecasts entered into web-based integrated P&L and BS

model

Wornick forecasting system full set of

primary statements and supporting

detail into spreadsheet

Finance uploads trial balances into

Oracle

Oracle auto-outputs P&Ls into

business unit models for

balance sheet & cash flow modelling

Balance sheet and working capital

assumptions added to spreadsheet models

Business unit spreadsheets primary

statements loaded into consolidating

spreadsheet

Wornick spreadsheet output pasted into

consolidating model spreadsheet

Consolidation, FX, interest assumptions

Balance sheets loaded into Oracle by finance

PROFITABILITY BY CUSTOMER

BY SKU VS BUDGET:

CANADA, OZ & UK. Vs Forecast

= UK ONLY

Cash flow spreadsheet

model

BALANCE SHEET & P&L ACTUALS

VS BUDGET

Financial statement

generator auto output into excel

Automated daily sales vs

budget

Trial balance loaded into

spreadsheet to calculate cash

flow

Cashflow page moved across to

accounts pack

ACTUALS VS FORECAST ALL UNITS PRIMARY

STATEMENTS = “CTRL C”

Daily sales and profitability information

loaded into Essbaseautomatically

Scalable and robust platform, cloud first

Strategic Growth

Release 12Total integration

Data structures updated

SOLUTION OPTIONS

Strategic Priorities for Global CFOs in recent years

CFOs Want to Modernize Finance

Source: Oracle-Accenture Research: Empowering Modern Finance: The CFO as Technology Evangelist, February 2014

• Data analysis

• Systems expertise

• Business partnering

• Big Data

• Mobile

• Cloud-based systems

• Respond faster to internal and external clients

• Flex the business model in response to change

Improve Speed of Decision-Making

Leverage High-Impact Technologies

Restructure the Finance Skill Set

It’s Cloud until its Not

Build versus Buy

• Time frame for deployment

• Don’t try to reinvent the wheel

• OBIA creates data warehouse ‘off-the-shelf’, save a large amount of build time, based on best practice and Oracles experience in multiple customer sites

• Qubix Cloud Services Enterprise Planning Template

• Added value from building on the foundations

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How does it work?

Infrastructure + Software + Implementation + Training + Support

PBCS fixed scope implementation and rapid delivery

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On Premise versus Cloud

The integrated cloud solution

Take 2 Cubes of PBCS

+1 Private Cloud Data Warehouse

+

Mix in a Pinch of Qubix CloudBridge

*9 Years of Hosted EBS

Recipe for Success

Qubix Cloudbridge

A Package to get your “On Premise” source

systems and Excel spreadsheet data structured

and through to Oracle Cloud quickly and easily.

Create bridges between cloud products

Connect to 3rd party on-premise or cloud

products such as Salesforce or Workday

Extract and transform data and dimensions

Seamlessly upload data and dimensions into

BICS, EPRC and PBCS

Qubix Cloudbridge

Qubix Cloudbridge

RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

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Harmony of the Oracle Cloud…..

Modelling & Planning

Analytics & Understanding

Operational BI

Public Cloud – Oracle PBCS

Private Cloud – Oracle BI & BI Apps

Information flow…

What we delivered

Big step forward

Planning• Reduce time spent on planning process- allowing more time for analysis and

challenge.

• Process consistency across Group

• Improved accuracy of forecast

Business Analytics and Reporting• Improved decisions - faster

• Improved availability of business information

• Preventative alerts rather than after-the-event reports

Ownership• Fast route to deployment

• Lower total cost of ownership

• Provide Secure and scalable environment

Measure of success

Today , tomorrow and for the future

GLOBAL STANDARDISED BUSINESS INFORMATION• ORACLE Business Intelligence.• ORACLE Business Intelligence APPs.

FORECASTING• ORACLE Planning Budgeting Cloud Services (PBCS).• QUBIX Cloud bridge – interface between PBCS and core Oracle.

ORACLE ROLLED OUT TO MOST RECENT ACQUISITIONS• 18 Month program of strategic MIS upgrades.

WHY IS THE CLOUD IMPORTANT?• Rapid deployment across the Group at once.• Minimised risk.• MIS team focussed on solution delivery not black box maintenance.• Using expertise: Quality specialised Oracle partner – QUBIX.

FUTURE• ORACLE Release 12• Manufacturing Analytics• HCM• Enterprise PBCS – WORKFORCE AND CAPEX

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THANK YOU

Q & A

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