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"The availability of our supply chain systems is paramount to keeping our factories running. . . . any downtime costs us thousands of dollars per minute."

Curt Johnson, director of Worldwide Procurement IT, Dell

Challenge

Database supporting a supply chain involving:
  • More than 10 manufacturing plants worldwide
  • 1 million part numbers
  • 3 million inventory movements per day
  • More than 2 million bills of materials per year
  • 1.8 million purchase order lines per year

Solution

  • Dell PowerEdge servers
  • Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters
  • Dell/EMC storage devices

Benefit

  • More than $5 million in IT savings
  • 90 percent reduction in the number of product units not manufactured due to system outages
  • 40 to 50 percent shorter financial closings
  • Increased IT flexibility and scalability
  • Reliable, cost-effective support for critical supply chain

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