Consolidating regional ERPs onto Oracle Fusion Cloud

A manufacturer that grew by acquisition typically runs one ERP per region, each with its own chart of accounts, its own supplier and item masters and a tangle of integrations written against that ERP's tables. Month-end consolidation happens in spreadsheets, and every new report is a regional project.

Consolidation programmes rarely slip on configuration. They slip on data conversion that needed more cycles than planned, on integrations discovered in testing, and on reports the business assumed would exist. The reference engagement is organised around those three risks.

This is a reference engagement describing our approach. We frequently deliver the integration, data conversion and reporting workstreams inside a programme led by a larger integrator, as well as leading smaller consolidations end to end.

Design starts with the global enterprise structure and a single chart of accounts with mapping rules from each legacy chart. Supplier and item masters are cleansed and de-duplicated before the first conversion mock, because master data quality decides the timeline. Conversion runs as an engineered pipeline: extract, cleanse, transform, load through FBDI, reconcile, repeat weekly, with a reconciliation report finance signs each cycle.

• An interface inventory in discovery lists every integration with its owner, frequency, volume and failure mode, including the ones in scripts and spreadsheets.
• Integrations are rebuilt in OIC against Fusion REST and bulk APIs, never lifted from table-level interfaces.
• The reporting catalogue is treated as scope: each report dies, maps to a seeded report, becomes an OTBI analysis or is built in BI Publisher, with its own build and test cycle.
• Regions cut over in waves, with the integration estate and reporting catalogue proven on the first wave before the second begins.

What changes: one chart of accounts and one close process across regions, supplier and item masters that mean the same thing everywhere, integrations that survive quarterly Fusion updates because they use supported APIs, and a reporting catalogue the business recognised and signed off before go-live rather than discovered in hypercare.

This page describes the reference engagement rather than one client, so it carries no client figures. Results for a specific programme are shared under NDA.