Industry Challenges

Procurement — Lack of visibility into supplier activities and services from third party processors results in price volatility and uncertainty in production cycle and delivery accuracy.

• Need for greater visibility into outsourced supplier’s activities
• Poor supplier reliability can lead to price volatility
• Lack of visibility into order progress of third party processors or outside warehouses
• Product innovation demands are critical to the future of manufacturer’s expanding product lines
• Need for more ordering accessibility to consumers through online and mobile applications

Operations — Difficulty integrating operation, sales, and manufacturing data from segregated data 'silos'.

• Struggle to integrate acquisitions and locations
• Lack of visibility into Plant-Floor operations
• Manual processes that slow decision making and agility of business decisions
• Systems are department based and not company wide
• Rapid globalization of the company into emerging markets requires scalable systems

Manufacturing — Struggle to manage warehouse space availability and decrease inventory obsolescence.

• Dispersed company supply chain management
• Legacy information systems do not always support new or differentiating business practices
• Systems are unable to adapt to expanding production lines and changing consumer trends

ERP Solution Benefits

Procurement — Seamless integration between suppliers to produce more accurate delivery times.

• Create a connected community of users, both within and outside the organization, allowing them to easily view outsourced manufacturing operations and supplier status
• Streamline more difficult and time consuming quotation processes
• Reduce purchasing error rate by close to 80%
• View operations and suppliers to deliver accurate quotations and reliable service to customers

Operations — Integrate business departments to one system for agile business decisions with real time communication.

• Identify areas for improvement within the organization and across the global supply chain by using integrated business intelligence and key performance indicators (KPI)
• Facilitate global collaboration to quickly engineer, source and manufacture new products
• Reduce manufacturing inefficiencies by integrating sales, production, shipping and billing systems
• Improve on productivity and return on assets with full visibility across processes, lines, departments, plants, outsourced operations and throughout the global supply network
• Obtain industry specific KPI and benchmarks
• Have access to updated inventory, development, sales, purchasing and financial information across multiple locations and companies

Manufacturing — Improve production scalability and manufacturing performance.

• Minimize inventory costs and eliminate waste by pulling inventory through optimal sequence using “best before’ management and first expired/first out or first in/first out picking direction
• Capable of adopting a variety of manufacturing processes
• Improve warehouse efficiencies, reduce inventory levels and decrease inventory obsolescence
• Reduce energy consumption and costs while tracking and reporting reduction in carbon output
• Unify business processes across all plants globally
• Remove waste, improve real time visibility, and customer specific reporting throughout the supply chain

Solution Clients

• Bayer CropScience – Canada
• Mentor Engineering
• ZCL Composites Inc.
• Catalyst Paper Corporation
• Delta Controls
• ATS Automation Inc.
• CGT Canadian General-Tower Ltd.
• Harris Rebar
• Spin Master Ltd.
• Vicwest Corporation