Sheffield Consulting Roles ..............................

•   Consulting Roles

  • Business Requirements
  • Standardization of business processes across all mills
  • Standardization of coding structures across all mills
  • Application Consulting for Plant/Maintenance
  • Creation of 3D models of the plant to aid in the development of equipment hierarchies and maintenance routes
  • Development of a complex security model, with tailored user views based on mill and user group

•   Training

  • Common foundation
  • Integration to other modules
  • Work Orders
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Equipment/fixed Assets

 

Company Overview..........................................

• This client is a diverse private Canadian company formed in 1943. Today, it is one of the largest privately held firms in the World. In recent times, the non-oil related businesses were seperated from the company to form a new division based on forest products, distribution and retail.
• Group Companies:
  • Forestry
  • Pulp and Paper
  • Lumber and value added lumber products
  • Transportation and Distribution
  • Ship Building and Manufacturing
  • Contruction
  • Retail
• The firm invests heavily in technoogy to remain at the forefront of each sector in which they operate. The technology is used to optimise manufacturing and business processes and this includes PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne® which Sheffield Consulting helped to implement.

 

Project Overview..............................................

• The company selected J.D. Edwards OneWorld (now known as Peoplesoft EnterpriseOne® ) to be the core of its information systems strategy. Several company sites are now live with the product, including Pulp Mills, Paper Mills, Tissue Plants and Parts Distributors.

• The objective of the project was to implement OneWorld® at a pilot sawmill and create the standards and foundation for a rollout for all the sawmills group.

• A mill on Prince Edward Island was selected for the pilot. This small mill had no automated Plant/Maintenance or Work Order system, but was one of the lowest cost and most efficient mills in the company.

• The mill was using J.D. Edwards World product for Payroll, Time Entry, A/P and A/R. Initially, Oneworld Plant Maintenance would co-exist with this.
  

• The project started in October 2002 and was completed in early February 2003. During this time, a network of representatives was formed to act as a steering commitee governing the standardization of business process, the use of JDE and coding structures within.