Tech-free toymaker automates business and IT processes to
reduce costs, increase efficiency, and meet increasing global
demand for imaginative play
LAS
VEGAS, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Melissa
& Doug, a leading preschool brand for sustainable wooden toys,
has selected Oracle Cloud to scale its global operations and
transform its core business processes. With Oracle Fusion Cloud
Applications Suite, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Oracle
Autonomous Database, Melissa & Doug has been able to reduce
costs, increase efficiency, enhance operational insights, and
support its rapid growth by automating end-to-end businesses
processes.
For 30 years, Melissa & Doug's mission has been to ignite
children's imagination and sense of wonder, and inspire hands-on,
open-ended, screen-free play. To support its growing global
business, which now includes more than 70 million
sustainability-focused toys sold annually, and continue to exceed
the expectations of an ever-growing parent fan base, Melissa &
Doug selected Oracle Cloud to replace its legacy business
systems.
"Our homegrown systems got us by when we were smaller, but as we
have expanded globally, we needed to eliminate the inefficiencies
that came with manual processes and disparate systems," said
Lee Tsukroff, chief financial
officer, Melissa & Doug. "With Oracle Fusion Applications,
we've been able to optimize financial planning, reduce the time
needed to close the books, and better manage suppliers. We've been
able to reinvest all these cost savings into research and
development, the core of our business. The efficiencies gained have
unquestionably enhanced our products and will support our company's
mission and sustainability goals."
With Oracle Fusion Applications Suite, Melissa & Doug has
been able to break down organizational silos, standardize
end-to-end processes, modernize its operations, and access
continuous innovation with new features added every 90 days without
downtime or business disruption. Melissa & Doug implemented
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Oracle
Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and is
currently implementing order management and supply chain execution
modules in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing
(SCM). In addition, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle
Autonomous Database, Melissa & Doug has been able to take
advantage of a single integrated cloud platform to increase the
performance, reliability, efficiency, and security of its global
operations.
"As companies grow and accumulate more systems, updating and
maintaining these systems adds cost and inefficiency and ultimately
takes resources away from the organization's primary mission," said
Steve Miranda, executive vice
president of applications development, Oracle. "With Oracle Cloud,
Melissa & Doug will be able to stay focused on its mission and
support its future growth by automating and optimizing end-to-end
processes and operations on a platform that is continuously
updated."
"The completeness in integration of Oracle Fusion Cloud
Applications Suite together with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and
Oracle Autonomous Database were advantages we couldn't overlook,"
said Mike Macrie, chief information
officer, Melissa & Doug. "Employees were clamoring to get
trained on the new system and have not been disappointed. Every day
they express their thanks for allowing them to get back to the
company's mission. Oracle has provided on-going expertise and
support throughout to make our journey to the cloud as smooth as
possible."
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