Partnering with SYSTIME, Trek Bicycle Corporation uses JD Edwards solutions
from Oracle® to support rapid expansion into new regions.
Established in 1976 as a small business operating out of a red barn in Waterloo, Wisconsin, Trek grew into a multimil- lion dollar global enterprise, with sales,
purchasing, warranty, warehousing, and finance
operations expanding into Europe and Asia
Pacific. As the company grew, Trek needed help
Bryan Turner, Trek IT Global ERP Manager
in updating its operational and financial systems
to keep pace with the expansion.
Building on their close and trusted
relationship, Trek partnered with SYSTIME to
implement Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
9.0 and their in-house business-to-business
system, as well as business intelligence and
demand planning. As a result, Trek was able
to cut unnecessary costs and build a strong
technology foundation for future expansion.
Obstacles to Growth
Trek Bicycle Corporation is a major bicycle and
cycling product manufacturer and distributor under brand names Trek, Gary Fisher,
Bontrager, Klein and until recently, LeMond
Racing Cycles. Trek bicycles are marketed
through 1,700 dealers across North America,
subsidiaries in Europe and Asia, and distributors in 90 countries worldwide.
Although Trek was growing successfully, executives had limited abilities to view and analyze
the entire global business. The business was
spending too much time managing operations on
multiple systems, and both time and cost were
devoted to updating, maintaining, and synch-ing data. Disparate legacy enterprise resource
planning (ERP) applications and a fragmented
chart of accounts led to operational inefficiencies,
which increased unnecessary costs. In line with
its recent expansion into Asia, Trek required an
ERP solution for Asia that could be closely integrated with the instance of Oracle’s JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne Xe that was already implemented
in North America and Europe. Flawless master
data management and the transfer of financial
information from the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
9.0 system were vital.
The Selection Process
To aid in the JD Edwards implementation, Trek
sought a world-class team with the global exper-
tise to deliver a solution rapidly at a competitive
cost. Trek chose to partner with SYSTIME, whose
end-to-end approach incorporated Oracle’s
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 in Asia and used
Oracle SOA Suite 11g as the integration platform
between the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system
and other subsystems used by Trek. Driving
superior financial data and supply-chain visibility
with accelerated sales along with warranty
support, the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne-based
solution from SYSTIME enabled the perfect inte-
gration between Trek’s business-to-business and
point-of-sale systems, business intelligence, and
demand planning. It also enabled the solution to
be rolled out easily in any new geography.
Reaping the Business Benefits
The Trek-SYSTIME team implemented and integrated JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 on time
and within budget while accommodating Trek’s
