In October of 2005, U.S. Gypsum Corp. began a plant optimization rollout across 50 manufacturing sites that produce gypsum wall board.

The goal was to unify its plants on one instance of Oracle ERP (enterprise resource planning) and offer visibility across all sites. “We wanted to make sure you could go to any plant and the processes would be exactly the same,” says Nat Parameswaran, director of business solutions in supply chain and e-business systems at Chicago-based U.S. Gypsum. “Even before we started the implementation, we did a process standardization across all plants.”

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