Customer Information

Oriental Group provides one-stop solutions for infrastructure steel products to clients worldwide. By having a diverse team of professionals in various construction and engineering fields in Southeast Asia and China, ORIENTAL is able to collectively leverage its extensive international resources and experience to deliver its services. This ensures that our customers' project needs are met wherever and whenever possible.

Project Background

Oriental Group is a subsidiary of global steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal, as is the world's largest steel group, with employees in more than 60 countries and plants in 20 countries. One of the projects is one of the ArcelorMittal Group's businesses. ArcelorMittal products are technologically advanced, enjoy a leading position and benefit from advanced vertical integration - from iron ore mining at one end of the value chain to distribution and dispatch at the other.

Oriental Group has subsidiaries in several Asian countries, including Malaysia, China, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. The business includes sales, leasing and trading of steel products.

Different countries, different business models, and different taxation policies make it a huge challenge for the group to be managed in a unified manner. The implementation of Microsoft Dynamics helps Oriental Group to achieve a unified group management and meet the flexible management in multiple countries and business forms.

Solutions

ORIENTAL adopted Microsoft Dynamics ERP system to fully integrate all business processes and information platform of the company. The implementation includes product data management, project management, sales, supply chain, master planning, warehouse management, production management, group finance, management analysis reports, etc. Bringing the insight, connectivity and professional tools that business managers and employees need.

Dual-unit product master data management:

For the data management characteristics of steel products such as sheet piles, steel pipes, etc., it is necessary to manage the product weight as well as the product count quantity in inventory management. And according to the different lengths, manage the conversion relationship of dual units. Through Dynamics' flexible dual-unit management, it is convenient for business users to manage inventory and handle sales transactions flexibly.

Unified management of multi-sales business models:

ORIENTAL has various business forms, including project sales, leasing business, back-to-back trading, building construction services, etc. Through powerful project management function of Dynamics, the business flow of different sales modes is integrated. Realize the refined management of labor, material and expense of each scenario sales business.

Leasing business solutions:

Integrate fixed asset management and inventory management of leased items. Through the system, it realizes the cost budget of leasing projects, the receipt and issuance of leased goods, the calculation of rent, the settlement of leasing projects, and the automated business processing of the acquisition and disposal of fixed assets.

Group financial solution:

For ORIENTAL's global business, the group financial consolidation management requirements are unified and integrated through Dynamics' global financial solution capability. Meet the multiple accounting standards used in different countries and the tax requirements of different countries. Including China's VAT, Vietnam's VAT, Singapore's tax rate requirement by delivery address, Malaysia's GST and Withholding tax, etc.

Business Benefits

The successful launch of Microsoft Dynamics 365 has tightly integrated the logistics, information flow, capital flow and business flow of Oriental Group's global multi-country and multi-business model, and realized resource optimization and sharing. It will greatly improve the company's management ability and work efficiency, greatly enhance the core competitiveness of the company, and lay a solid foundation for the future rapid development of Oriental Group.

The powerful functions of Microsoft Dynamics 365 system realize the full integration of financial business and informationization in sales, planning, purchasing, production, inventory and other business aspects. Various kinds of management reports provide strong support for management's decision making. It not only solidifies the business operation process for the enterprise, but also provides great support for the development of the enterprise.

▪ Eliminates information silos and improves customer satisfaction.

▪ Optimized and solidified the operation of enterprise business processes, standardized business operations, and reduced reliance on personnel thinking.

▪ Increased productivity and greater improvement in internal enterprise management efficiency.

▪ Visualization, accurate, fast and multi-dimensional report analysis.

More Information

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