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EDITOR’s Note Q1 2008 has been very eventful hence this edition is packed with interesting milestones Our cover story is Oando’s successful implementation of Oracle ERP system dubbed ‘Project Synergy”. The announcement was in conjunction with Oracle Corporation, whose Managing Director, African Operations – Mr. Desi Lopez was present. Meanwhile, Oando began the year with a Management Retreat to set the corporate objectives for 2008. The strategic event is captured in pictures for your delight. From other subsidiaries, Oando Marketing successfully activated the first Happy Holiday Splash for this year, with some Oando non-marketing team volunteering supervisory services. Our strategic focus on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with the Adopt-A-School programme is yielding fruits with the completion of the first phase of renovations of schools adopted by Oando in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, Lagos, Daura and Katsina State. In the same vein Gaslink presented 100 school children with scholarships in Lagos. Other activities include Oando Exploration and Production’s visit to OPL 236 in Akwa Ibom and a donation of a passenger boat to its host community in Rivers State. Oando Share Services also had its first all stakeholders retreat. All these and more are captured in this edition for your reading pleasure. Enjoy. Meka Continued from previous page Cross-section of media representatives, Oracle Team and Oando Staff during the press briefing Abayomi Awobokun, Enterprise Resource Planning, Project Manager business units becomes easier to integrate monthly, quarterly and yearly financial performance with complete, up-to-the-minute information and contributions by all business units. Oracle Order Management: Well streamlined and automated sales and order management process, from order purchasing, to order-to capture, transportation and shipment, invoicing and payment leveraging both standard Oracle and Oil Inventory Management System. Oracle Supply Chain Management: The Oracle E-Business Suite Supply Chain Management integrates and automates all key supply chain processes, from design, planning and procurement to manufacturing providing a complete solution set to enable the company enjoy accurate information-driven value chain. This application is essential to the terminals and logistics operations business of the Oando Group. Commenting on the success story, Mr. Abiola Lawal, Group Chief Strategy Officer, Oando Plc who led the implementation team states, “We are delighted to celebrate our success story today. Gartner study shows that the industry success rate for ERP implementation is 30 percent hence generally over 70 percent of ERP implementations often fail to reach their objectives due to ineffective change management, system implementation and infrastructure issues. But as a company with world class aspirations, we took steps in the right direction by concentrating on the critical success factors to ensure we record remarkable success”. Mr. Lawal further stated that “ I can attribute our success for the Oracle implementation to a number of key factors: Management support for this project was top class right from the Board to the GCEO and rest of management team; our implementation partner in GTS understands our business and have multiple implementation experience; our Hardware partnership with HP was critical in providing the infrastructure; and our change management and technical implementation teams were well trained and motivated to deliver results. We harnessed our reservoir of local talents with the expertise of our partners to ensure a successful implementation and an end-to–end deployment of this world class IT platform which becomes our execution engine for our growth strategies and enables our aspirations for world class processes.” He concluded by saying that “for us at Oando, this is less about IT but more about the future of the business and growth aspirations. We aspire to be world class in our business functions across our value chain both customer facing and back-end functions and we needed world class processes, people and technology to power this vision to reality. The successful Oracle “Project Synergy” implementation enables this vision to becoming a reality and provides tremendous value to all our stakeholders; employees, suppliers, customers, shareholders etc.” Commenting further, the Managing Director, Oracle Corporation (Africa Operations) Mr. Desi Lopez, states “We are proud to provide Oando with the state of the art software needed to actualise its corporate vision. We in Oracle Corporation have pledged our continued support in offering comprehensive maintenance and problem resolution offerings that suit the company’s business. The breadth of our knowledge and the scale of our support ensure Oando’s technology’s future. For Oando, it is a demonstration of superior product knowledge, appreciation for technical expertise, a commitment to improving business processes and a world class project that was well led and well executed to deliver value. EDITORIAL TEAM Editor Meka Olowola Assistant Editors Femi Adeyeye Sunmbo Olajubu Odion Aleobua Contributors Bimbo Okoya Samuel Onyenwe Edward Olaka Graphics/Layout Rotimi Jenfa Editorial Adviser Tokunboh Durosaro Oando news is a quarterly publication by the Corporate Communications Department of Oando PLC. All correspondence to The Editor, Oando PLC, (9th Floor) 2, Ajose Adeogun Street, Victoria Island, Lagos,Nigeria. Website:www.oandoPLC.com Email: oandonews@oandoPLC.com All rights reserved. Materials in this issue may be re-printed with due credit given to Oando News OandoNews 2
Adopt A School – Phase 1 Renovation The Adopt – A- School project was formally initiated in April, 2007 in partnership with the Ministry of Education as an avenue for Oando to support the growth of primary education in communities where it operates. The project aims at supporting the development of selected government schools for an agreed period of time through the renovation of facilities, provision of teaching aids and books. In 2007, during the pilot phase of the project, Oando adopted 3 Government Primary schools. The adopted schools are: 1. Metropolitan Primary School, Orile-Iganmu, Lagos 2. Government Primary School, Ekorinim, Calabar, Cross River State 3. Daura Primary School, Daura, Katsina During the 1 st quarter of 2008 the 1 st phase of the renovation activities for the 3 schools where completed. This focused on the repair of dilapidated roofs, repainting and screening of the classroom walls, repair or erection of toilets amongst others. The final phase of renovation is scheduled to commence and be completed in the 2 nd quarter of the year. (Before) Back view of Ekonirim Primary School, Calabar After (Before) Side view of Ekonirim Primary School, Calabar After Over head tank of new Borehole donated to Ekonirim Primary School, Calabar Side view of a new block of toilets donated to Ekonirim Primary School, Calabar 3 OandoNews
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