The United Nations Development Programme has deployed
Oracle's PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning software across
145 countries in just 14 days, enabling its international offices
to collaborate more effectively and improve many of its business
processes.
The ERP package, which includes Human Capital Management, Supply
Chain Management and Financial Management modules, has replaced
many disparate systems being used internationally by the UNDP.
Jens Wandel, project director of the Centre for Business
Solutions at UNDP, said dozens of separate financial, HR and supply
chain applications, plus hundreds of spreadsheets used to manage
personnel, projects, donors and suppliers, were able to be
replaced.
"The UNDP is an extremely complex organisation comprised of many
offices around the world that use different business processes,
languages and resources," said Wandel.
"Prior to the implementation, the UNDP relied heavily on
paper-based processes. We needed an integrated system to automate
our business processes and speed our response time."
He said the software also appealed because of its internet-based
architecture.
"It would have taken a very long time to deploy a solution if we
needed to touch each user machine worldwide. Instead, we were able
to deploy the entire solution in just 14 days and allow our
employees to access the system from anywhere via the internet."