Erie Power Technologies, Inc., wanting to increase their competitiveness by improving their information and technology infrastructure, needed to develop a "virtual office" that would manage their full supply chain and collaborative product information exchange.

To succeed in today's information-intensive economy, global companies need rapid, meaningful and actionable insight into their projects and extended enterprise activities. Only with insight can they execute appropriate strategies smarter and faster to compete successfully in increasing complex business markets.

Erie Power Technologies, Inc., wanting to increase their competitiveness by improving their information and technology infrastructure, needed to develop a "virtual office" that would manage their full supply chain and collaborative product information exchange. Based in the USA, Erie Power works with supplies from all around the world. Managing their tasks and deliverables was a major challenge.

The solutions to their needs was a fully integrated web environment for product development, manufacturing and distribution, using proven project management skills and disciplines.

Working with SAR Associates, an eTimeMachine Inc. reseller and consulting partner headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Erie Power scoped a complete Project Management Solution specification to empower the organization to implement its "virtual office" environment. eTimeMachine.com Inc. makes world-class software, offering resourc and work management solutions and integration capabilities across a wide range of third party best-of-breed products.

Since Erie Power's business decision was to select best-of-breed software, this led to a requirement of integrating those applications. eTimeMachine's Integrator™ is the seamless integration tool connecting eTimeMachine Enterprise™, Oracle Applications, Primavera Enterprise and SmarTeam applications.

Two of the major components of the Erie Power solution were the eTimeMachine employee portal Workspace™ and the eTimeMachine Integrator™. eTimeMachine Workspace provides the means for employees to get their assignments from Primavera Enterprise in real time; report time, expense and progress data; pass it back to Primavera Enterprise; pass it to their Oracle Applications suite and finally, to their payroll system. eTimeMachine Integrator is an integration tool that facilitates the link between Oracle Projects Accounting and Primavera Enterprise.

About Erie Power Technologies, Inc 
On September 8, 2004 Cockerill Maintenance & Ingenierie (CMI) of Belgium acquired the assets of Erie Power Technologies, Inc., of Erie, Pennsylvania and has established a new company , CMI EPTI,LLC as a subsidiary of CMI America. Erie Power Technologies, Inc. is a major global supplier of technology solutions and services to the power industry and selected energy-intensive industries. Customers include a variety of other energy intensive industries through the design, supply, and site construction of steam generation equipment for large combined-cycle power plants. Erie Power is headquartered in Erie, Pennsylvania.

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Solution

Erie Power's project and manufacturing management needs included implementing a solution that incorporated:

  • Implementation of a Planning and Scheduling system using Primavera Enterprise
  • Implementation of Oracle Projects Accounting
  • Implementation of an Enterprise Time and Expense system to collect employees' time and expense information (using eTimeMachine Enterprise) Interfacing eTimeMachine Enterprise and Primavera Enterprise
  • žInterfacing eTimeMachine Enterprise to Oracle Applications into Oracle Project Accounting (OPA) that interfaces to the General Ledger system
  • Interfacing eTimeMachine to Erie Power's payroll service provider
  • žInterfacing project work breakdown structures, activities and budgets from project management systems to Oracle Applications
  • Transferring actual costs from Oracle Applications to its Project Management system
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