Ideaca & eBECS Announce a Strategic Partnership
March 15th, 2006 Toronto, Canada
Ideaca and eBECS announced a strategic partnership to deliver a lean manufacturing solution integrated with Microsoft’s flagship ERP application - Microsoft Dynamics™ AX to organizations in the Canadian marketplace.
Today, “lean” has become a strategic initiative in the manufacturing sector as companies focus on ways to eliminate waste in their production and administrative processes while providing customers with the flexibility, reliability and responsiveness to deliver the required goods ’just in time’. External market pressures such as off-shore competition, global outsourcing, profitability pressures, capacity and capital constraints have set the stage for lean initiatives.
The partnership between Ideaca and eBECS will provide organizations with the management expertise and tools to support their lean initiatives through the delivery of localized services responsive to an organization’s specific needs. Muneer Hirji, President of Ideaca, stated, “I see this as a strategic opportunity for eBECS and Ideaca to take a leadership role in providing lean manufacturing based on Microsoft Business Solutions. Our combined industry experience and unique service offering will allow us to deliver tremendous value to our customers.”
eBECS Partner Marketing Director, Stephen Wilson, stated, “We see Ideaca as a strategic partner in the distribution chain between us and the end customer. Ideaca’s geographic locations of Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver provide links to these core Canadian markets.”
Lean principles have a proven track record of operational and strategic success, translating into increased value to the end customer. The eBECS product is an extension of Microsoft Dynamics™ AX and offers lean functionality in sales and purchase forecasts, supplier and production Kanbans, flow schedules and sales orders. The eBECS Lean Enterprise Solution along with Microsoft Dynamics™ AX is now being offered by Ideaca to manufacturing organizations throughout Canada.
About eBECS
A member of the eBECS Group, eBECS is dedicated to business improvement using “Lean Thinking” throughout the extended supply chain. eBECS has developed expertise in cutting waste in all aspects of the organization together with the specific solutions for defining value, establishing flow and operating a business on the basis of pull techniques. The focus at eBECS has been on enhancing the Dynamics - AX product to enable organizations to quickly benefit from all that “Lean Thinking” has to offer. The eBECS Group offers a technology and business-based partnership that removes the complexity which otherwise surrounds the Lean and e-business world. For more details please visit: www.ebecs.com