API Group, based in Macclesfield, produces specialist packaging materials for luxury goods brands. It has over 1,000 employees worldwide, turning over £120m. API Group director of information systems Iain Anderson was reported by Computer Weekly as saying that API's strategic investment in Oracle E-Business Suite as a platform for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) "has revolutionised the way the business presents and looks at itself both internally and externally".

Oracle was implemented to replace a collection of disparate legacy accounting applications. It was implemented with some configuration but no "intrusive customisation".