Industries Chimiques du Sénégal Streamlines Operations with Integrated Processes

Originally founded to meet India?s demand for phosphoric acid to produce fertilizer with high-quality phosphate mined in Senegal, Industries Chimiques du Sénégal has grown to become the largest industrial complex in the nation. It produces, markets, and distributes phosphate, phosphoric acid, fertilizers, and pesticides and supplies water from boreholes for electrical power production.

Challenges

• Replace disparate financial, procurement, and payroll systems and integrate different processes across the organization
• Improve production budgeting?costs were inaccurate and took too long to obtain
• Speed the procure-to-pay cycle and closing of books
• Provide transparency into inventory levels Solution
• Implemented 11 modules from Oracle E-Business Suite, integrating the company’s supply-chain, manufacturing, financials, and human resources processes across the organization
• Used Oracle Financials, Oracle Activity Based Management to provide real-time access to accurate information, including production costs and operations
• Eliminated the risk of double entries through integrated processes and technology
• Used Oracle Fixed Assets and Oracle Projects to provide reporting on expenses, budgets, encumbrances, and actuals, resulting in improved and faster decision-making
• Provides more time for analysis by speeding closing, thanks to the integration between Oracle Financials, Oracle Order Management, and Oracle Process Manufacturing
• Significantly improved visibility and management of production costs using Oracle Financial Analyzer
• Improved reporting on material flow statistics such as receipts, transfers, production, consumption, and sales using Oracle General Ledger and Oracle Financial Analyzer
• Improved visibility and management of inventory levels
• Based decision to go with Oracle on cost and local client base, including Sonatel, Senelec, and BCEAO