Cefla Group
Imola, Bo
www.ceflagroup.com

Cefla Group is a company organized into four divisions that allow the maximum closeness to its reference markets: stores furniture, wood painting, civil and industrial plant design and solutions for dental offices. Technology, innovation, capillary commercial presence and strong industrial size are features shared by each division. Attention to the market, international expansion and continuous product innovation have determined a considerable growth trend that has consolidated strenght and leadership of the group. Cefla group is known in the market as expression of energy, flexibility and large production capacity.
The offices spread worldwide and the dealers and distributors network ensure an efficient and capillar service.

Economic activities:

Furniture, Dental, Finishing.

Turnover: 300 million Euro

Employees: 1500

Oracle Products and Services

• Oracle JDEdwards EnterpriseOne
• Oracle JD Edwards
• EnterpriseOne Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management
• Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications
• Technology
• Oracle Data Base
• Oracle Enterprise Manager

"The implementation of lots of features of Oracle JDE Enterprise One, the electronic Kanban and the possibility of having a software platform that would support us in the applicatoin of the principles of Lean Thinking, has allowed Cefla to obtain tangible  and measurable results"

Susanna Medri,

IT Director Cefla Group

Project aims

Cefla has decided to introduce and implement the principles of Lean Thinking providing IT of solutions able to make operational the impact of strategic decisions on business functions, in particular on production and logistics.

Specifically Dental and Finishing divisions must support the information flows with more flexible and simple tools, associated with the processes of receiption of the goods, warehouse management and, especially, new processes based on Lean Manufacturing philosophy, with particular attention to the electronic Kanban management.

Why Oracle?

The selection of the Oracle platform has been the result of a software selection process which involved most big player on the international market.

"The Oracle JDE EnterpriseOne applicative platform has features that make it easy to access: agility, flexibility, scalability and openness to the outside, without neglecting reliability and robustness, universally recognized to Oracle database", says Susanna Medrano, IT director of Cefla Group. "The solution also includes typical features of Demand Flow Manufacturing (Line Design, Kanban Management, Daily planning and sequencing, resource management, etc.)."

Why GN?

GN Informatica has contributed to the success and good results of several projects at Cefla, showing competence and experience on Mobile computing solutions and Lean Manufacturing.

The need to complete the project in expected time and to use resources that have proven experiences in implementing JDE oriented our choose on GN as partner and privileger interlocutor.

The Solution: benefits and concrete results

GN has implemented GNI Mobile, a platform and applicatoin suite, that interact remotely with ERP Oracle JDE Enterprise one.

The solution allows the use of mobile devices to execute transactions typical of business management. The real time information availability allows a greater consciousness in the work made by the staff employee in production or warehouse.

The electronic Kanban, introduced in buying and ordination processes, production, warehouse has been automated and integrated with ERP system, allowing significant time saving and the elimination of errors. Already in the first four months, the solution developed allowed us to achieve concrete results in terms of efficiency, staff independency and time savings in some cases up to 87%.