designing enterprise applications for speed and agility
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Designing Enterprise Applications for Speed and AgilityCharlie MerrowCEO – Merrow Sewing Machine Co.@Merrow_Machine
Rod ButtersPresident – Kenandy, Inc.@Rod_Butters
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Merrow: A Case Study in Agility• Established in 1838
Gunpowder 1838-1857Textile Mill 1848-1892Sewing Machines 1875-2014Branded Stitching, Apparel, Hardware, Thread 2012-2014
• Today Merrow manages 6 brands in four product categories, with sales in 68 countries world wide
All on the Salesforce1 Platform!
•Salesforce + Kenandy+ 10 other applications•The platform allows Merrow to quickly map new business processes to software
•The management and execution of this work is not-technical.
•Because of the technical foundation we quickly developed and invested in new businesses
An example
• Merrow Domestic Mail Order Repair
• Planned, Designed and prepped for over two months
• New objects built, workflows added and automated – in less than one week.
• Fully integrated with Opportunities, Sales Orders and Reporting
• Matthew Cate– Brown University, BS & BA, Neuroscience & Art-
Semiotics– Roger Williams University Law School, JD
• At Merrow:– Admin for Kenandy & Sales Cloud– Workflows and new objects for new business ventures
• Benefit of the platform– Translate understanding of the business process into
working applications
Meet our Salesforce Admin …
Kenandy Cloud ERP Platform
Reporting & Dashboard
Multi-Tenant Infrastructure Scale & SecurityAnalytics Multi-Language Open IntegrationBusiness Process
Workflows
Shared Metadata
Procure-to-Pay Planning & Production Global FinancialsOrder-to-Cash
Wide-Body ObjectTM Data Model
Customer Developed Applications HCM Shipping
DocumentGeneration
ProductLifecycle
Management
SOAP REST
ExternalIntegrations
MES
Shop Floor Control
Business Intelligence Configurator
Warehouse& Distribution
Field Service On-Prem ERP
Reporting & Dashboard
Multi-Tenant Infrastructure Scale & SecurityAnalytics Multi-Language Open IntegrationBusiness Process
Workflows
Shared Metadata
Database App Server Messaging ToolsCompute Storage Network Data Center
Why Replace current ERP?
Support of mobility
Collaboration with business partners
Lower overall costs
Support of business innovation
Ability to focus resources on more important projects
Faster delivery of new features
Speed of implementation
Business agility
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Percentage of firms that rated the following benefits as important in their firm’s decision to use SaaS
Source: Forrsights Software Survey,Q4 2013 (1,417 Respondents)
Traditional vs Cloud ERP Implementations
Hardware Sizing
Software Download Install Convert
DataDefine
Requirements Configuration Config #2 UATCRP
Config #3
CRP
10-18 months for Phase 1
Min. Team – DBA, BI Team, Tech Report Consultant, Tech Consultant, 4 Bus Consultants, PM (8-11 people)
Agile Build UAT
CRP
CRP
Agile Build
3-6 months
Min. Team – SF Admin, Tech Consultant, Business Consultant, PM (3-4 people)
Convert Data
RequirementsTrain
Traditional
Cloud
Why Is Kenandy Different?
Simple & Powerful• Consumer-like experience• One integrated system• Wide-body objects™• Built-in social, mobile
Complex & Limited• Hard to Use• Many separate applications• 25,000 – 65,000 tables• Bolt-on social, mobile
Flexible & Fast• Fast, agile implementation• Always up-to-date• Configurable business processes• Built for rapid change
Slow & Brittle• Slow to implement • Painful to upgrade• Hard-coded business processes• Change breaks processes
KenandyTraditional ERP
Architected for Agility
Elastic Cloud Infrastructure
• Scalable• Secure
Wide-BodyObjects
Reports
Dashboards
WorkflowFormulas
Social
Mobile
• Change once, change everywhere
• Clicks, not code• Upgrade with ease
Bring the Business Logic to the Wide-Body Object
Wide-BodySales Order
ObjectDimensionality
& Volume
Substitutes & Blocks
New Product Allocations
Pricing Tiers & Promotions
Load Optimization & Consolidation
Credit Check
Planning, Production, Distribution In A Traditional ERP• Brittle business process in module-to-module communication• Data scattered across many tables with different representations• User experience crosses many module screens
Planning Module
Demand Forecast
Installed Base Module
Installed Base
Product Warranty
Device Repair Record
WMS Module
Material Ship
Material Pick
Pick Transactions
In Transit Freight
Inventory Module
Inventory
Material Supply
Material Demand
WIP Supply
Lot Serial Genealogy
Receiving Supply
Soft Allocations
WIP Transactions
Inventory Transactions
Receipt Transactions
In Transit Supply
Wide Body Objects for End-to-End Processes
Plan Work Order DestinationPallet LotSupplier Lots
SKIDs To Be SKIDs Actual SKIDs History
The Benefits Of Elasticity: Anytime Processing
• Traditional ERPs• By Day: Transaction Machines• By Night: Batch processes for analysis and planning• Requires complex after hours batch processing
• Kenandy on Force.com• Everything ALL the Time!! No outage window! • MRP and transactions can run concurrently• Run process automation any time! No more batch!• Real-time access to information!
Point And Click Agile Innovation Cycle
EVALUATE• Reports• Dashboards
CREATE• Objects• Processes• Screens