| COMPANY: | L & L Products |
| HEADQUARTERS: | Romeo, MI |
| SIZE OF COMPANY: | 500-999 employees |
| INDUSTRY: | Automotive supplier |
| PRIMARY PRODUCT LINE: | Sealing solutions for automotive, aerospace, and other industries |
| NAME OF PROJECT: | Manufacturing Resource Planning System |
| PROJECT OBJECTIVE: | To align production and other operations more closely with real customer demand for products; reduce inventory costs and become more responsive to customer demand |
| TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED: | Oracle PLM, Oracle E-Business Suite, EDI managed service (Seeburger) |
| ACCOMPLISHMENTS/ROI: | Can execute on a global expansion strategy; implement standard business processes and control across global operations; improved supply chain planning processes; moved closer to manufacture-to-order model; reduced scrap and inventory levels by shifting from a push-based model to pull-based model; reduced material expense as a percentage of sales by 10% |