Athens Wine & Spirits Reduces Overstock With Blue Ridge

Athens Distributing Company of Tennessee is a family run business dedicated to bringing quality wine and spirits products to Tennessee consumers. Athens services 76% of the state of Tennessee, and have been in the wholesale Wine and Spirits business for over 65 years.

Athens selected Blue Ridge for their ability to manage demand and supply planning for retailers and distributors in the most economical way possible. The 'what,' 'how much,' and 'when' of future inventory orders are orchestrated to maximize profitability without sacrificing service to your customers. Because Blue Ridge technology is delivered via the Cloud and was configured to Athens unique environment, results were realized in as little as 90 days.

As a result of implementing the Blue Ridge solution, Athens experienced a 2.4% increase in service levels, saw their overstock drop by 67%, reduced overall inventory by 9% and was able to reduce their on-order inventory by 12%.

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Raymond Building Supply Gets On-Track With Epicor BisTrack

Raymond Building Supply serves professional builders from five locations near their base in North Fort Meyers, Florida. Raymond has used Epicor's BisTrack software for several years and it has helped restructure their business to operate more efficiently in their marketspace.

The benefits Raymond Building has experienced include the following:

• Reduced administration staff
• Saved time retrieving information and reports
• Improved project accuracy
• Enabled managers to be proactive
• Positioned company for growth
• Automated manual tasks
• Better customer service

BisTrack software has automated many tasks that had been done manually at Raymond. Additionally, tasks as varied as inventory, calculating sales tax, and searching for and filing documents are completed much faster within the solution. “It’s all about the dashboards to me,” said Duane Swanson, Jr., president and CFO, Raymond Building Supply. “Our managers have their BisTrack software dashboards up 24/7—constantly monitoring our business operations in real time with much greater efficiency. Whether it’s gross margin exceptions, system alerts, you name it, the information is all there, so they can be more proactive. That’s huge.”


The BisTrack instant documentation solution has helped Raymond uncover issues that were eating away at their profits—delivery disputes where missing items were replaced at Raymond’s cost, kits where inventory was not fully allocated, and mistakes due to lost paperwork. “Taking photos of deliveries definitely pays for itself,” commented Ken Myers, millwork manager at Raymond, referring to the BisTrack Mobile Delivery feature that uses a camera phone to capture photos of a delivered load and link it to the order documents.




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Drogen Electric Supply Implements Savance ERP For Enhanced Efficiency

Drogen Electric, a wholesale distributor of electrical supplies headquartered in Oneonta, NY, has been in operation since 1949 and expanding from a solo operation to its current size of more than 150,000 square feet of facility space with 11 employees.

Drogen took a step-by-step approach in its migration to Savance Enterprise, to avoid disruption of daily business activities. The company quickly found that the Savance solution worked seamlessly with its existing system, providing much needed improvements in data access on the back end – with no disruptions to its day-to-day business activities.

The more Drogen explored the Savance ERP solution, the more potential benefits the company saw. From wireless inventory functionality to Web-based capabilities for sales staff to customer access to accounts, Savance Enterprise seemed like a natural fit. Ultimately, the benefits led the company to take steps toward a complete migration to Savance Enterprise. "Savance guaranteed us they could bring over 12 years of our Array data during the change, and they did not disappoint", Drogen VP Chris Puerile says. "The system is very extensive and every day we are finding new ways for it to support our business".


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Mill Creek Lumber and Supply Company Chooses Kerridge for Growth

Kerridge Commercial Systems recently announced that Mill Creek Lumber & Supply Company has selected its K8 business management software to help prepare for future growth. Mill Creek has been in business for over 80 years and has more than 20 locations across Oklahoma and Kansas.

As a full-service building material supplier, they provide everything needed for building materials including windows and doors, roofing, custom millwork, hardware, and floor coverings. Mill Creek CFO, Wade Lennon, stated, “Kerridge Commercial Systems is a leading software company that provides a highly integrated system with proven capabilities in two core industries that are vital to Mill Creek – lumber and building materials as well as flooring materials. The software, combined with KCS’s culture and drive to work with its customers, proved to be the right solution for our company.”

Kerridge has experienced global success in the lumber and building materials industry with K8. As businesses look to technology to be able to take the next step in efficiency, profitability, and growth, they find K8's solution a compelling one to consider. To read more, visit the Kerridge Newsroom.

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Misco Selects NetSuite OneWorld For Business Transformation

Oracle NetSuite, a leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP, HR, Professional Services Automation (PSA) and omnichannel commerce software suites, recently announced that Misco, a European B2B reseller of IT products and services has selected NetSuite OneWorld to modernize and transform its business.

Founded more than 30 years ago, the Wellingborough, UK-based company offers 40,000 different technology products and has been steadily growing its services business across Europe. Misco selected NetSuite OneWorld for its multi-language and multi-currency capabilities to manage international operations in the UK, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden, as well as a shared services center in Hungary.

The Misco management team, led by CEO Alan Cantwell, chose NetSuite OneWorld for its broad range of functionality, rapid deployment and ease of implementation. With support for 190 currencies, 20 languages, automated tax calculation and reporting in more than 100 countries and transactions in more than 200 countries, NetSuite OneWorld will provide the following benefits to Misco:
◾Rapid implementation.
◾360-degree customer view.
◾Unified order-to-billing-to-revenue.
◾Significant savings in IT costs and complexity.
◾Real-time visibility.
◾Data-driven decisions.
◾A broad range of robust international capabilities.

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VIETRI Streamlines Processes With Vision33

Vision33, the largest global SAP Business One partner, recently announced the latest recipients of the 2017 Visionary Awards. Selected from over 800 customers worldwide, Visionary Award recipients highlight fast-growing companies committed to delivering the best experience possible to their customers through transformative business technology.


Vision33 presented the awards at this year’s Biz.One Conference held in October. Chief SAP Business One Ambassador, and host of the Vision33 TOTAL Care Wednesday Web Chat series, Carl Lewis presented the Visionary Awards to those in attendance. One of the award recipients was Italian ceramic distributor, VIETRI. VIETRI is the largest importer of handcrafted Italian tableware and home decor products, working with family owned and operated factories throughout Italy. Their mission today remains the same as it was over 30 years ago: to inspire the celebration of life with family and friends through the joy of handcrafted Italian designs for the table, home, and garden.


Working with Vision33, VIETRI leveraged the SAP Business One's transparent inventory control and distribution functionality so that it could streamline its business processes. In doing so, its operations became more efficient and it could provide shorter shipping times, a huge for customer satisfaction.


"SAP Business One has streamlined our processes and helped us become one of the fastest shippers in the industry," says Jody Davis, Customer Service and IT Manager, VIETRI. To learn more exemplary ways that VIETRI leveraged SAP Business One solution to achieve its goals for growth and success, read the VIETRI customer success story.

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Wolf Creek Distribution Optimizes Inventory With MITS

Wolf Creek Company is a wholesale distributor of equipment and supplies for landscape, golf course and agricultural irrigation, landscape lighting, water features, lake aeration, fountains, and systems for pumping, waste harvesting, retention and drainage. Founded in 1961, the Dayton, Ohio-based firm serves hundreds of customers in Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky.


Wolf Creek uses Epicor Prophet 21 to manage its business and run day-to-day operations. That software solution enables the company to carefully manage their business, but there are a number of critical answers the ERP system doesn’t directly provide—answers that are essential to Wolf Creek’s success: inventory and sales.


Through its participation in the irrigation industry’s Virtualrain buying group, Wolf Creek learned that MITS had an analytics solution in use with other ERP’s. The MITS Distributor Analytics solution was prepared to work with Prophet 21 as well. Wolf Creek acquired a server to host the solution, and the MITS team installed and adapted its analytic solution to work seamlessly with Prophet 21.


With the new solution in place, Wolf Creek sees significant advantages already. Now, sales reps can log into the MITS solution directly on their iPads and see how things are going across their entire customer base. With access to deep, item by- item inventory analysis, the company can—in a general way—better decide what to store in what quantities, and where. More specifically, it’s much faster and easier to identify specific instances of too much or too little stock.






To read more, and access additional case studies, visit the http://www.mits.com/mits-customer-success?resources=80

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Kerridge K8 Brings Success For ADM Pressings

ADM Pressings is a manufacturer of pressings, assemblies and fabricated products for the automotive industry. The company first implemented Kerridge's K8 Manufacturing in 1999 and played a key role in supporting the development of the system’s management information dashboard tools. The K8 Manufacturing system in use at ADM today is a much more advanced integrated product than the original version, and since then, the system’s value to ADM has grown progressively.


K8 Manufacturing enables ADM to operate efficiently with tight process controls in every area. From customer contacts, inquiries, quotations and orders through to purchasing, stock control, production scheduling and dispatch, the system lies at the heart of the business.


Gains and benefits include:

• Real time data for effective decision making
• A robust, integrated software platform
• A scalable system for future developments
• Integrated process control sales order to delivery
• Effective stock control and purchasing
• Comprehensive production and resource planning
• Integrated accounts and robust financial management
• User-defined and maintained management dashboards
• Fully supported business processes

To read more about the ADM implementation and learn more about Kerridge K8 Manufacturing, visit the Kerridge Newsroom.

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Rowleys Wholesale Gains Efficiencies With Tour de Force

Rowleys Wholesale is a distributor of automotive and industrial lubricants, tires, equipment, and a variety of other products related to the automotive industry. Rowleys selected Tour de Force to provide customer relationship management (CRM), sales force automation (SFA), and business intelligence (BI).


The Rowleys Wholesale team responsible for selecting a CRM system unanimously agreed that Tour de Force was the best solution for them. The primary reasons that Rowleys Wholesale selected Tour de Force were the extensive integration to their Infor SX.enterprise ERP system, extensive integration with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server, the full range of features offered through the mobile solution, and Tour de Force’s extensive background and experience in the distribution industry.


“After reviewing a wide range of CRM solutions, it was clear to everyone involved that Tour de Force was the best fit for Rowleys Wholesale,” remarked Mike Rowley, co-owner and CIO. “Once we saw a demo, we were amazed at the extensive out of the box integration they provided to Infor SX.enterprise, without the need for expensive customizations or add-on middleware."


Other features of the system, such as the flexible permission structure, easy to navigate Manager’s Console, powerful Gap Analysis, and use of user defined fields contributed to Rowleys decision.


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