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
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