Case Study: APN Outdoor achieves 3x faster invoice approvals and a unified financial platform with Oracle Financials Cloud

APN Outdoor Gains a Single Financial Platform with Oracle ERP Cloud

APN Outdoor Group Ltd., a leading outdoor-advertising company in Australia and New Zealand, faced a costly, highly customized JD Edwards financial system with multiple interfaces that was hard to maintain and scale. The company needed to standardize end-to-end financial processes (GL, AP, AR), integrate existing Oracle and third‑party systems for timely reporting and a single source of truth, and simplify IT to support future growth.

APN migrated to Oracle Financials Cloud Service (ERP Cloud) with Wipro’s help in a six-month project, replacing the legacy stack and integrating key systems. The cloud solution automated finance functions and boosted performance—invoice approvals grew from 100 to 300 per day (3x) without extra headcount—while multi-dimensional reporting, improved data visibility, faster month‑end close, better user engagement, and reduced IT maintenance through automatic patches and upgrades enabled faster decisions and scalable growth.

APN Outdoor

David Watkins

General Manager Finance