Provider Saves More Than Three and One-Third Tons of Paper with Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Content Management
Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 29, 2010
News Facts
Cox Communications, Inc., a multi-service broadband communications and entertainment company serving more than 6 million U.S. residences and businesses, has significantly reduced its carbon footprint with the help of Oracle E-Business Suite (www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/index.html) and Oracle Imaging and Process Management (www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/content-management/imaging-process-mgmt/index.html) , a component of Oracle Content Management (www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/content-management/index.html) .
As a wholly owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Cox Communications wanted to support Cox Conserves, an enterprise-wide initiative designed to strengthen the company’s sustainability leadership in the communications industry by reducing its carbon footprint by 20 percent.
To support Cox Conserves, Cox Communications automated the entire procure-to-pay process by leveraging Oracle iProcurement (www.oracle.com/applications/procurement/iProcurement.html) to migrate corporate and cable-system level processes to “one-touch” electronic processes that minimize paper use and increase efficiency across its high volume business.
By capitalizing on Oracle’s Enterprise Application Documents (www.oracle.com/products/middleware/content-management/content-management-for-applications.html) strategy and the pre-integration between financial applications within the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Imaging and Process Management, Cox Communications was able to migrate to electronic invoices whenever possible, including the establishment of a more robust electronic routing process, reducing company-wide paper-use by three and one-third tons, the equivalent of 19,740 pounds of CO2 emissions, within the first eight months.
Additionally, by migrating to electronic processes, Cox Communications has been able to significantly increase efficiencies, reducing the cost of processing vendor invoices by up to 80 percent when using new processes and the number of account payable transactions by 26 percent.
To further reduce its environmental impact, Cox Communications is leveraging the Oracle E-Business Suite to pilot a completely online business-to-business procurement process for high volume vendors, yielding access to a customized website to order pre-configured products, secure approvals and submit payment via an electronic invoice.
In the future, Cox Communications intends to extend its new online procurement process to its top 650 suppliers, which represent half of the company’s invoice volume.
Cox Communications is also currently using include Oracle Internet Expenses (www.oracle.com/applications/financials/internet_exp.html) , Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (www.oracle.com/appserver/business-intelligence/hyperion-financial-performance-management/hyperion-financial-management.html) , Oracle XML Gateway and Oracle Business Intelligence 11g (www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/index.htm) .
Supporting Quote
“We are making a huge company-wide push to reduce our environmental impact and set the benchmark for sustainability within the communications industry,” said Bill Fitzsimmons, vice president corporate finance and chief accounting officer, Cox Communications. “In doing so, we have used the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Imaging and Process Management as one of the solutions to replace many manual processes and eliminate the need for literally millions of sheets of paper. Within the first eight months alone, this has enabled us to increase efficiencies, reduces costs and save almost 20,000 pounds of CO2 emissions.”
Supporting Resources
Oracle E-Business Suite (www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/index.html)
Oracle Imaging and Process Management (www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/content-management/imaging-process-mgmt/index.html)
Oracle Applications to Enable an Eco-Enterprise (www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/green/greenapplications-065993.html)
Oracle Communications (www.oracle.com/us/industries/communications/index.htm)
Oracle Communications on YouTube (www.youtube.com/oraclecommunications)
Oracle Communications on Delicious (delicious.com/OracleCommunications)
Oracle Communications on Facebook (www.facebook.com/#!/OracleCommunications?ref=ts)
Oracle Communications on Twitter (www.twitter.com/oraclecomms)
Oracle Communications on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2710476&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr)
Cox Enterprises (www.coxenterprises.com/)
Cox Communications (ww2.cox.com/)
Cox Conserves (www.coxconserves.com/)
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