Toyota and Fusion5 have developed a relationship over several years. As Fusion5’s range of products and services has grown, so has the number of touch points between the two companies. Toyota has chosen Fusion5 as the vendor to deliver a range of systems including: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, ApprovalPlus Procure to Pay solutions, Oracle’s User Productivity Kit and the HEAT Service Catalogue.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
Toyota New Zealand has been a JD Edwards customer since 2002 and relies on Fusion5 to deliver services for this core business product. In 2008 an upgrade from Xe to 8.12 was completed followed by a more recent upgrade to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne release 9.1.
Assistant General Manager of Toyota Mark Young says of the upgrade “Toyota has made a strategic decision to be committed to JD Edwards as our enterprise system, and as such, the decision to upgrade to 9.1 was not a difficult one. The added functionality, improved user interface, compatibility with IE9 and jumping ahead in the support lifecycle were the obvious advantages. Of course, the two most common downsides would tend to be cost and disruption to the business. However, neither eventuated as significant issues - mainly due to the expert planning and execution from extremely committed and passionate staff from both Toyota and Fusion5.”
Now that the upgrade is complete Toyota is powering on with the next project, a significant change to the way it processes new and used vehicles. With vehicles managed in two discrete legacy systems with multiple interfaces, Toyota is moving these business processes into JD Edwards. This project brings all the relevant data into one system and therefore decreases the costs involved in managing vehicles and improves Toyota’s ability to provide information to its dealer network.
ARCTOOLS
Toyota has also implemented ARCTOOLS to manage the data that JD Edwards generates. Toyota attempted to create a manual archiving and purging process for JD Edwards 2-3 when there was considerable pressure on disk space in the databases, and database compression was implemented to solve the immediate disk space issue at the time. Although this process worked there were concerns over the accessibility of archived data, retention of data integrity and management of the process. ARCTOOLS is now implemented to archive data away from the production system.