Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Oracle Analytics @ Aleris March 2014 1
Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Aleris Overview & Introduction to BI @ Aleris Bob Petro Manager, Business Intelligence 2
Click WHO to WE edit ARE Master title style Click An Aluminum to edit Master Industry text Leader styles Click Rolled to & edit Extruded Master Products text styles Recycling & Specification Alloys Privately-held Headquartered in Cleveland, OH 2012 revenue: approx. $4.4 billion More than 7000 employees worldwide More than 40 production facilities Highly-efficient Flexible Technologically-advanced 3
Click WHO to WE edit ARE Master title style Click Industry to edit Position Master text styles Bauxite mining Alumina refining Aluminum smelting Processing End use applications Aleris participates in select segments of the aluminum fabricated products industry Recycling 4
Click A GLOBAL to edit PLATFORM Master title style Click Facilities to edit in Key Master Locations text styles Worldwide North America Europe China 5
Click Global to BI edit Team Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Mark Macioce Bob Petro Director IT BI Manager Mark Whitlock BI Architect Drive Culture Towards Analytics and Data Driven Decisions. 6
Click Oracle to Analytics edit Master Deployments title style Progress Click to edit Master text styles Internal Deployment Team Bottoms-Up Deployment with Business 7
Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Aleris Procurement Customizations Mark Whitlock Architect, Oracle BI/Analytics 8
Who Click am to edit I? Master text styles Click OBIEE to edit Administrator Master text styles Oracle Second BI Applications level Administrator Informatica Third Developer level Oracle DBA Dashboard / Reports» Fifth Developer level What I do? Implement and Maintain US & European instances of OBIEE/OBIA 9
Click to edit Master text styles What was the issue? Original Third departmental level procurement implementation was not strategically focused. Global platform» Fifth level common configurations Aleris Spend Category non standard Finance utilization of UNSPSC codes 10
Click Why use to edit a Spend Master Classification text styles Hierarchy? Aberdeen Group Best Third Practices level in Spending Analytics Cure for the Corporate Fourth Epidemic level http://www.unspsc.org/library 11
Click What to Must edit be Master done to text implement? styles Common Configurations - Mandatory Third level configurations completed Procurement configuration - Procurement configs revisited Database tables altered DAC altered Workflows created 12
Click to edit Master text styles What is UNSPSC Code? United Nations Standard Product Services Code A way to classify products and services. http://www.unspsc.org (e.g. Business justification, Code Search, Training, etc) 13
Click to edit Master text styles What methods are available in OBIA to implement Click to edit Master UNSPSC text styles CODES? ORACLE Spend Fourth Classification level Spend classifications parts CSV file (Technote 16231019) Customizations using UNSPSC_WID 14
Click UNSPC to code edit Master usage text at Aleris? styles Inventory Second part level classification in matl_categories_b Oracle ERP Fourth R12.1.3 level Procurement Data Manager 15
Click Overview to edit of Master Customization: text styles UNSPSC Second code level was being applied to purchase orders in ORACLE Third ERP level Extract the Fourth category_id level and bring it into the Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse (OWAB) New tables and views in the OBAW for Products and Products Hierarchy tables. 16
Click Overview to edit of Master Customization text styles (cont d): Two Second new PLP s level created to synchronize W_AP_INV_DIST_F enabled Third UNSPSC level code to be queried from PO Invoice Distribution Fourth and Spend level subject areas. Modified the RPD Modified the Webcat Created Analysis in PO Invoice Distribution Subject Area using UNSPSC codes 17
Customization Click edit Master Challenges text styles No customization Second level had yet been made First need Third to level create: Custom Fourth Workflow level folder - DAC Custom» Subject Fifth level Area- DAC Custom Execution Plan - DAC Custom Workflow Informatica Once the workflow were in place they had to be sequenced to run in an order that updated the fact tables first, then the product data hierarchy and product tables so all the foreign keys would be create. 18
Click Aleris to Option: edit Master Customizations text styles using UNSPSC_WID Create Second three custom level PLP_ workflows PLP1 Third - level W_AP_INV_DIST_F PLP2 - W_PRODCAT_DH PLP3 - W_PRODUCT_D 19
Click Outcome to edit Master text styles Aleris now has standardized product hierarchy utilizing Click to edit Master text styles UNPSC code Can now utilized all the features of OBIA 7.9.6.4 - GL segments for AP accounts - Small Business Classification - Employee Expenses - Supplier Performance - AP Aging 20
Click Future to Considerations edit Master text styles Classification of internal product such as scrap types and raw material purchases Integration of» external Fifth level spend sources Normalization of Oracle Suppliers 21
Click to edit Master text styles Questions Mark Macioce Director, IT (216) 910-3195 mark.macioce@aleris.com Bob Petro Manager, BI (216) 910-3463 bob.petro@aleris.com Mark Whitlock Oracle Architect (216) 910-3425 mark.whitlock@aleris.com 22
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