Celebrating twenty years of Integrated

Business Analytics Solutions

ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT | BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE | BIG DATA

The M&A Information FactoryIntegrating 80 Sources in 100 Days

with Oracle DRM & FDMEE

Tim Walsh – Director of Financial Systems, WestRock

Mike Killeen – Sr. VP Technology & Strategy, Edgewater Ranzal

ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT | BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE | BIG DATA

Introduction to Edgewater Ranzal

Oracle Platinum Consulting Partner - 100% Focus on Oracle Business Analytics (EPM/BI/Big Data)

200+ Full time EPM/BI/Big Data Billable Consultants throughout the US, Canada and the United Kingdom

EPM & BI Experience & Success

2,000+ Oracle EPM, BI, & Big Data projects successfully delivered since our founding in 1996

Depth & Breadth of Service Offerings

Product Experts across:EPM Suite - Planning, HFM, HSF, HPCM, DRM, FDMEEBusiness Intelligence – OBIEE, EssbaseBig Data – Big Data Discovery, Endeca Information Discovery, Hadoop and EBS Information Discovery

Visioning & Roadmaps, Full Life Cycle Implementations, Tech Review & Assessments

Additional Value Added Service Offerings

Exalytics – Installation, Configuration & Benchmarking Services

Infrastructure Services – Design, Configuration, Performance Tuning & Upgrades

Support Services – Remote Help Desk, Lev 1 Support, Patch release Support

Training Services - Customized and Pre-Packaged EPM/BI Training Delivery

2 Ranzal Oracle ACEs Across EPM/BI Platform (Planning/BI, HFM & FDMEE)

Co-Development Efforts with Oracle Product Management

Customer Advisory Boards, Beta Testing, Certification Exam Development

Workforce Planning

Balance Sheet Planning

Capital Planning & PFP

HFM

Financial Close Management

Disclosure Management

HPCM

HSF

FDMEE/ERPi & EPMA

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Our Services

Financial Close & Consolidations

BusinessIntelligence/

Big Data

EnterprisePlanning &

Analytics

Data IntegrationServices

Training &Support Services

Advisory ServicesInfrastructure

Costing &Profitability

Mgmt

Business Intelligence/Big Data

• Scorecards & Dashboards; Mobile Delivery

• Prepackaged Analytic Applications (OBIA)

• BI Foundation (OBIEE / Essbase)

• Financial & Operational Analytics

• Reporting & Publishing

• Big Data

• Information Discovery (Endeca)

• Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS)

Financial Close & Consolidations

• Legal, Segment, & Mgmt Reporting

• Financial Performance & Close

• Optimization & Performance Lab

• Tax Provisioning

• Regulatory Requirements

Data Integration Services

• ERP Integration

• Financial Data Management

• Data Warehousing

• MDM & DRM

• ETL Services and Automation

Infrastructure

• Hardware Sizing, Installation, & Configuration

• Exalytics Benchmarking

• System Monitoring, Backup, & Disaster Recovery

• Upgrade & Migrations

Advisory Services

• Project/Program Management & Process Change

• EPM & BI Road Maps

Training & Support Services

• Standard & Custom Training

• Virtual Classroom

• Multimedia and UPK

• Service Level Agreements

• Managed Services & Hosting

• Performance Engineering

Enterprise Planning & Analytics

• Strategic Planning (HSF) & Modeling

• Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Workforce, Capital, & Project Financial Planning

• Public Sector Planning

• Cloud Services

Costing & Profitability Management

• HPCM Standard & Detail Models

• Waterfall Allocations

• Shared Service Charges

• Activity Based Costing

• Customer, Product, Segment & LOB Profitability

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About WestRock

Source: IR.WESTROCK.COM / Presentations – Deutsche Bank’s Global Industrials and Materials Summit 06/08/16

1) Represents trailing twelve months ended March 2016 sales adjusted for separation of Ingevity, including pre-merger MWv sales for quarter ending June 2015. 2) Source of rankings: Company and market research. Rankings are based on capacity.

About WestRock

Source: IR.WESTROCK.COM / Presentations – Jefferies Conference Presentation – 8/15/2015

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7Source: IR.WESTROCK.COM / Presentations – Jefferies Conference Presentation – 8/15/2015

About WestRock

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Business Background

EPM Solution Overview

Implementation Approach

Implementation Results

Closing and Q&A

Agenda

Business Background

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Hyperion Planning

Cubes

• Operational

• Financial

• Capital

• Std Cost

• Sales

• Freight

• Rolling Forecast

• Salary

• Expense

Multiple

Billing

Systems

JDEdwardsG/L – A/R – A/P

Purchasing / Job Cost

Fixed Assets / EPAM

Legacy RockTenn

Multiple

Purchasing

Systems

PeopleSoft

Payroll

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Financial Systems Overview at WestRock

SAP 1

SAP 2

SAP Templates

Non SAP

Templates45 Sources, 34% of Revenue

Corporate

Entries 18 Sources, No Revenue

SAP BW2 Systems plus

16 templates

66% of revenue

Financial Systems Overview at WestRock

SAP BCS

81 Sources

Legacy MWV

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Objective – 81 Sources in 100 Days

Produce Consolidated Financial Statements generated by JDE

Report Profits by Business Unit in JDE & Hyperion

Report Balance Sheet by Legal Entity in JDE & Hyperion

Goal

Have all general ledger summary level data (balance sheet and business unit

revenue/expense) in JDE and Hyperion for the July 31, 2015 financial close.

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Multiple Challenges to Overcome

Organizations needed to be integrated within 100 days

(81 sources to 1 Financial System)

Prior mapping processes were time consuming and required rigid one-to-one

maps from source to target using Excel spreadsheets

Methods and tools utilized in prior mappings differed – skills were not transferable

Key validations were required prior to loading of mapped data to the JDE GL to

reduce significant delays in the closing process

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But What Path To Take?

Option 1 – Perform High Level Consolidations and Focus on External Reporting Only

Option 2 – Ensure Consistency in Performance Management Reporting at the Plant Level so the business can be properly managed

Senior Leadership Weighed in and Provided Critical DirectionSteve Meadows, CAO – “Our internal business partners rely on Hyperion to support their performance management reporting needs around Divisional and Plant Profitability. We have a mandate to provide this same level of reporting capability, and must strive to do so, in the new organizational structure, until we know that we can not.”

With support from Key Leadership, a dedicated combined finance team, and the DRM-FDMEE accelerators from Edgewater Ranzal, Option 2 was approved as the way forward.

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The Project Mandate

Financial reports are accurate and complete

Consolidations are complete in time for the July 31st close and subsequent quarterly filings, preferable in a single consolidations tool

Management Reporting processes remain in place until transition is planned and implemented

For day 1, as little upstream processes as possible are changed, and full transitions are considered only after day 1

As much detail as possible is put into the financial system

A tool is used to facilitate the mapping process in a way that can be completed and tested before the deadline and can be efficiently maintained

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EPM Solution Overview

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Strategy

Management

Profitability

Management

Enterprise Performance Management Solution

Planning &

Forecasting

Customer

Management

Resource

Management

Owners & Investors RegulatorsManagement

Operational Systems

Management

Reporting

Financial Close &

Reporting

Shared Master Data & Governance

General Ledger

Sub Ledgers

Financial Systems

Reference Data & AttributesHierarchies & Mappings Workflow

Performance Management Architecture

Shared Master Data & GovernanceOracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management (DRM) 17

Oracle Data Relationship ManagementDRM Enables Change Across the Enterprise

1. Manage Routine Change

• Eliminate parallel maintenance

• Align dimensions across all domains

• Enforce business rules

• Maintain complex maps

• Simplify close cycles

• Reduce reconciliation risk

• Create, manage & align reporting hierarchies

2. Accelerate Transformation

• Repeatable M&A Onboarding Process

• Catalyst for organization & finance transformation

• Simplify COA transformation & redesign

• Speed up business approvals with “what if” scenarios against business transactions

3. Reduce Risk

• Simplify & reduce risk for upgrades, migrations & rationalization initiatives

• Assure compliance with business rules & policies

• Simplify regulatory compliance

• Lower risk of financial misstatements with proactive change management & data governance

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Baseline Old COA (R11) & Data

Segment Definition – COA Team

R12 Segment Values – to DRM

R11-R12 Segment Maps – to FDM

DRM Capabilities

Versioning of Hierarchies

Reporting to Stakeholders

Modelling new Hierarchies

Approved Versions fed to R12/EBS

New COA (R12) Essbase Cube

Feed New Hierarchies from DRM

Feed Mapped Data from FDM

Analysis – Evaluate COA with DataSmartView Adhoc Analysis

FDM

R11 to R12

Mapping

R11 to R12

Mapping

R11 to R12

Mapping

FDM

Data & Maps

Finance

Transformational Example – COA RedesignOld Mutual Case Study from Oracle Open World 2012

EssbaseR11 EBS

R11

EssbaseR11 DATA

Essbase Data Load

R11

DATADRM

Reference Metadata

HFM Hierarchies

Managed Metadata

R12 Posting Codes &

Hierarchies

CoA Team

CoA Team

R12 EBS

ValueSet

R12 EBS

ValueSet

HFM Dims

DRM_Int

Interface Tables

Published Version

R12 EBS

R12

Essbase

R12

Hier

R12

DATA

R11

DATA Export R11 Data

Rebuild R11 Cube

Rebuild R12 Cube

ReMap R12 Data

FDM Task Scripts

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Use Ranzal COA Approach as

Accelerator for M&A Implementation

Hyperion

Planning

Cubes

• Operational

• Financial

• Capital

• Std Cost

• Sales

• Freight

• Rolling Forecast

• Salary

• Expense

JDEdwardsG/L – A/R – A/P

Purchasing / Job Cost

Fixed Assets / EPAM

SAP 1

SAP 2

SAP Templates

Non SAP

Templates45 Sources, 34% of Revenue

Corporate

Entries 18 Sources, No Revenue

SAP BW2 Systems plus

16 templates

66% of revenue

?????

Hyperion

FDM Map execution

DRM Hierarchy & Map

Management

Recon

Cube

Ranzal

COA

Framework

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Implementation Approach

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Implementation Timeline

Mar 15th: Project Kick Off.

April 30th: Requirements & Conceptual Design Phase Complete.

May 11th

Initial mapping within DRM complete within Edgewater Ranzal Lab

One source mapped, loaded, and viewable by Corporate Finance within Essbase

May 29th: Initial Build complete

FDM & DRM

JDE load file Process

Data extraction process from source systems

Software Upgrade of Dev & Test Environment to 11.1.2.3.

Month of June: Testing & Cut Over. Complete Upgrade.

End-to-End System Integration testing

Acceptance Testing w/ preliminary training

Production Cut-Over 22

Team Composition

Executive Sponsor

CAO

Governance

Project Manager

DRM FDM Essbase JDEdwards

(1) Consultant

(1) Manager

(11) COA Maps

Business

(1) Consultant (1) Manager (1) Manager

Engagement

Manager

(1) Integration

Specialist

Steering CommitteeAccounting, Tax, Audit, IT

Key: Blue = WestRock

Green = Consulting

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Hyperion

Design Diagram with Data Flow

JD Edwards

/ Hyperion

SAP ECP

SAP P01

SAP TemplatesIncluded in total SAP

numbers:

16 Sources, 5% of Revenue

Non SAP

templates46 Sources, 33% of

Revenue

Corporate

Entries 18 Sources, No Revenue

SAP BW2 Systems, 61%

of RevenueJDE

Master Data

FDM Map execution

DRM Hierarchy & Map

Management

Recon

Cube

JDE GL

Staging Tables (AS400

or SQL)

Mapped

JDE File

Standard JDE

batch process

MapsUn

mapped

Combo

MA

Shared

Folder

DRM ErrorsUnmapped JDE

MDM

M

M

FDM Errors Missing/Incorrect

Mappings and Out of Balances

A

AA

Recon Cube Preview

Functionality and Data

Reconciliation

JDE ProcessesStandard JDE

Pre-Edit and Z-File Processes

M

Data Movements:

A = Automated data movement

M = Manual data movement

MA = Manual kick-off of automated process

M

MA

A MA

Shared

Folder

A

SAP only

MA

Valid Targets

Map & ValidateUpdate

Mappings & Validations

JDE EntryManual Entries

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DRM Master Data Design

DRM Master Data Targets Initialized from JD Edwards (JDE)

JDE Business Unit (BU) Master – Table F0006

Primary Hierarchy

Attributes utilized to validate if can be posted to

JDE Account Master – Table F0901

Captures JDE Category Codes for Hierarchy Build

Attributes utilized to validate if can be posted to

Attributes utilized to require a sub ledger

Trading partner required for Interco Balances

JDE Company (CO) Master - Table F0010

Primary Hierarchy

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DRM Versioning & Archival

Four types of Version Status

Master (Working) Version

A new Version is created and the default status is Working

If there are previous Versions, then the new Version is created by copying the old Version to a new Version

Older Versions are set to Finalized and/or in some cases, Expired

This new Version is the Master Version and all the entries are done only in this Master Version

Validations are performed again to ensure the integrity of the data

Submitted Version

Master version status is changed to Submitted and changes are no longer permitted

Validations are performed again to ensure the integrity of the data

Finalized Version

When data integrity is assured, the Master Version status is changed to Finalized and no further changes are permitted

Exports are performed from the Finalized version to send hierarchy data to participating systems

Expired Version

The version status for the previous reporting period may be changed from Finalized to Expired, and the version is stored for possible future use

in historical analyses or as an audit record

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FDMEE Design

Load YTD and Prior YTD values (if provided) from source

files provided

Map source files to JDE Target based on mapping provided

by DRM

Provide access to the mapped data for consumption by the

RECON Essbase Target

Check to ensure that valid BU/Account.Sub

combinations are utilized

Create JDE file extract by FDM location per spec

provided

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DRM Build Highlights

Hierarchies & Dimensions (2)

Account, Business Unit (Source-Target Mappings)

JDE Account hierarchy - ~78K nodes

JDE BU hierarchy - ~22K nodes

Compare, Import & Blend Processes (CIB) (2)

JDE Account CIB – compare new Account Mapping hierarchy imported during JDE CDC

JDE Business Unit CIB – compare BU Mapping hierarchy imported during JDE CDC

Validations (3)

Invalid source account mappings (e.g. account mapped to a non-posting JDE account)

Invalid JDE sub-ledger & Invalid JDE Trading Partner

Other Technical Configuration

20 DRM Users

80+ Source Systems and a consolidated SAP B/W Instance

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Implementation Results

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Results & Benefits Realized

Summary of Project Results

Delivered an integrated FDMEE/DRM/Essbase mapping platform to map disparate sources into one

common JDE GL

Architected and implemented solution within 100 days and under budget

Effectively transferred knowledge ensuring that functional admins were able to update and run the

model autonomously

Benefits Realized

Developed framework for quickly integrating future companies into the organization

Standardized mapping processes regardless of source

Increased traceability, versioning, audit, management and control within the mapping process

Pre-validation of data prior to loading into the GL leading to less voiding and reloading of batches

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Subsequent Usage since Phase 1

DRM Phase 2 (Ongoing)

Feed of DRM master data back to JDE

DRG Workflow to support new JDE master data request process

Feed of hierarchies from DRM

Optimization of Acquisition Information Assets

Rationalization of Acquisition Source Systems

Additional Detail and Automation from Acquisition Source Systems

Additional M&A “Information Factory” Usage

2 Additional Acquisitions

1 Joint Venture

1 Planned Spin Off

Continued Need to meet aggressive timelines

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Closing and Q&A

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8 Conference Sessions

6/27, Session 1, 8:30 - 9:30amHow to Use Hyperion Tax Provision to Complete the Close Process Puzzle6/27, Session 2, 10:15 - 11:15amCycling off FDM Classic on Steroids and Taking a Dose of FDMEE HGH6/28, Session 8, 9:45 - 10:45amOpus Group is Over the Moon with Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud6/28, Session 9, 11:15am - 12:15pmFDMEE Can Do That?6/28, Session 12, 4:45 - 5:45pmProfitability and Cost Management: Have it Your Way6/29, Session 14, 10:15 - 11:15amThe M&A Information Factory: 80 Sources in 100 Days with DRM and FDMEE6/29, Session 18, 4:30 - 5:30pmMigration Approaches for FDMEE, the Heart of the Matter6/30, 9:00 – 11:00The Rules Circus: Experts Parade the HFM Functions

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