Company Overview

Founded through the merger of two companies, this leading global diversified building materials group has grown into one of the world’s largest firms in its industry. With operations in over 25 countries, they offer an extensive range of high quality building materials and solutions, including cement, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete, asphalt, and agricultural lime. In 2023, the company reported impressive financials with an operating income of over $4 billion, and a net income of over $3 billion. With total assets topping $45 billion, the company employs nearly 80,000 people globally. Committed to sustainable development and innovation, they create solutions that build, connect, and improve the world.

Challenge

A multi-national diversified building materials business needed to validate their Oracle EPM implementation prior to go-live. With multiple performance related issues and various concerns around ongoing maintenance, the client needed to ensure that the application started with a good foundation.

Solution

Following our rapid assessment methodology, Olympus was able to quickly document the existing application and identify potential areas for improvement to remediate concerns of performance. Upon completion, multiple key concerns were identified with a timeline to complete modifications to the applications.

Result

Based on the analysis completed during the assessment, the consolidation times for their FCC application can be reduced from over 6 minutes to below 1 minute. Additional potential improvements were identified to greatly reduce ongoing maintenance in business rules on both the consolidation and planning tools.

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