Recent Posts by Jim Lein

Our customers have done amazing things during the past year and now it’s time to recognize them. Nominations are now open for the 5th annual Oracle Change Agents Awards, acknowledging the accomplishments of Oracle Cloud ERP, EPM, and SCM customers and partners. What are the Oracle Change Agents Awards for 2021? This year, there are a total of 18 award categories spanning finance, supply chain, sustainability, and partners. Any Oracle Cloud customer is eligible, and can be...

Norway is one of the greenest, most environmentally conscious countries on the planet. 98% of Norway’s electrical production comes from renewable sources. Dig deeper into the numbers and you’ll learn that the country’s abundant lakes and rivers, along with its unique topography, create ideal conditions for generating hydroelectric power. Consequently, hydro accounts for an astonishing 96% of domestic electricity production. In many cases, established domestic energy...

In Basingstoke, England, dozens of beautiful trees shade the campus headquarters of Glory Global Solutions. But one tree, an English Oak, stands out. It was planted in 2018 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Glory’s parent company, Japan-based Glory Ltd. The stalwart oak serves as a reminder to employees of the deepening roots of the company’s international business outside of Japan. And, while Glory Global Solutions is poised for growth in its core...

Leading brewer Lion, headquartered in Sydney, is one of Oceania’s largest beverage companies. They are stewards to Australia’s and New Zealand’s most beloved adult beverages brands, some of which are over 100 years old. In 2017, the company embarked on an ambitious technology transformation, which included reducing the number of operating entities from 300 to 50 and establishing a single chart of accounts. Lion had been a happy Oracle Hyperion customer for over seven years....

Most of us have gone through the mortgage application and approval process one or more times. Back in the day, the process was paper-intensive and took days, or even weeks, to complete. As frustrating as that could be for consumers, imagine what it was like for brokers juggling dozens of clients at a time. Then along came innovative mortgage aggregators like Australian Finance Group (AFG). They burst onto the scene in the mid-1990s, quickly building a brand in the industry by...

With $1.9 billion in annual sales, Dallas-based Mouser Electronics is the seventh largest distributor of electronic components on the planet. You might never have heard of them—but almost certainly, there are dozens of electronic components in your home, office, and car that have passed through Mouser’s colossal distribution facilities. I first met Scott Brown, SVP of finance at Mouser, in 2014 when he presented in an Oracle OpenWorld session focused on rapidly-growing SMBs....

The worst company I ever worked for ruthlessly enforced autocratic personnel policies, shouted down any discussion of compensation, and fostered a culture of backstabbing. Looking back, I still ponder why I put up with them. Must be the stoic Scandinavian Minnesota farm boy in me. The Worst Companies to Work For Adopt Worst Practices for HR The 24/7 Wall St. website has analyzed thousands of employee reviews posted on employment site Glassdoor to come up with its fourth annual...

Oracle Modern Best Practice is one year old. We launched this online cache of resources because, when considering technology to solve business challenges, our customers and future customers want to painlessly do their own initial research. And, once engaged with solution providers, Oracle Modern Best Practice provides a strategic and tactical framework for planning activities. After reaching this milestone, I asked Steve Cox, VP of Oracle Cloud go-to-market and Oracle...

Guest Post by David Haimes, Sr. Director, Oracle ERP Cloud Development Picture this: You’re a controller in a finance group that prides itself on following modern best practices and not being just a bunch of bean counters. On Friday, your boss sent you an email with a spreadsheet listing amounts that potentially need to be written off as bad debt. You forward it to your team, asking for updates and supporting documentation. First thing Monday, you pull up your email and there...