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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Charter Medical Improves Visibility and Reporting with SYSPRO ERP

Charter Medical, a manufacturer of products for the regenerative medicine, blood transfusion, and bio processing industry, has chosen SYSPRO ERP Software to improve processes and streamline reporting. Charter Medical is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fenner PLC and operates out of an ISO 13485 certified and FDA registered manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem, NC.


SYSPRO is a global, independent provider of industry-built ERP software designed to simplify business complexity for manufacturers and distributors. Focused on delivering optimized performance and complete business visibility, the SYSPRO solution is highly scalable, and can be deployed on-premise, in the cloud, or accessed via a mobile device.


“We chose SYSPRO as our ERP provider because the system offers a user-friendly interface with tremendous functionality that incorporates business processes our company can grow with,” said Kathy Cox, Finance Director, Charter Medical. “We need a system that will provide real-time data and thorough reporting capabilities. SYSPRO checked all of these boxes. Additionally, SYSPRO offers the appropriate tools to empower our users to access data and operate efficiently.”


“We are very pleased to have Charter Medical join the long list of medical device manufacturers that use SYSPRO to help optimize business operations. We look forward to watching them grow and continue to help medical patients all over the world,” said Joey Benadretti, president, SYSPRO USA.


For more information on SYSPRO’s solutions for the Medial Device Industry, please visit the SYSPRO Newsroom.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Townsend Building Supply Streamlines Operations with Epicor

Townsend Building Supply is now a third-generation lumber and building materials (LBM) company. The company started in 1921 as a sawmill and has continued to grow over the years and currently operates five locations in the Southern United States. Townsend wanted to operate with new technology in order to stay competitive in the market.


Townsend chose Epicor's BisTrack solution as it was designed to be open and accessible, with multiple simple ways to look at business data. “The business intelligence functionality in BisTrack software is one of my favorite aspects because—not only for me as the president, but also for my people—we can all easily access the data that they used to have to come to me for,” said Michael Townsend, president. “Everyone can see sales performance, margin performance, truck fill performance, etc. in real time, which help us run the business with fewer interruptions.”


Identifying and strengthening strong customer relationships—and limiting the impact from unprofitable ones—can help drive growth. “We've implemented the BisTrack Customer Stratification tool,” said Townsend. “Having data on our customers is crucial to see how well they are actually performing versus what our perception is of their performance. Our future goals with Customer Stratification are to better engage our customers so that their relationship with us, and ultimately their purchasing, increases as time goes on. We’ll know more about our customers, what they buy, and what they don’t buy so that we can target them with specific marketing efforts rather than just generic.”




Benefits experienced since BisTrack implementation include:
  • Increased employee count from 45 to 85 employees
  • Expanded from two locations to five
  • Sped decision-making based on accurate data because of efficient software
  • Reduced shrink by 50 percent
  • Diminished mistakes involving inventory, stock receiving, and payables
  • Eliminated paper-based dispatch and delivery processes
  • Consolidated deliveries to fewer locations to better utilize people and equipment


To read more, visit the Epicor Newsroom.


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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Shaw Industries Turns To NetSuite For Global Expansion

Shaw Industries, with headquarters in Dalton, GA turned to NetSuite for its launch of a new 210,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Nantong, China. The carpet manufacturer's new plant, which employs more than 250 workers, produces 5 million square yards of carpet tile a year for Asian markets.

With its new China plant, Shaw has reduced the time required to deliver U.S.-made carpet tiles to the Asian market by several weeks. Shaw is also leveraging NetSuite to manage its 10 international subsidiaries with real-time visibility and global financial consolidation and reporting.

NetSuite's OneWorld provides Shaw custom-developed systems at its headquarters in Dalton, Ga., in a two-tier model at a fraction of the cost of on-premise systems, while also providing support for Mandarin and multiple currencies. Shaw easily rolls up subsidiary financials with global financial consolidation, while gaining on-demand transparency into international operations. Shaw also streamlines production in China with NetSuite manufacturing capabilities including work orders, work in process, lot control and standard costing.

NetSuite positions Shaw to quickly expand its ERP beyond existing subsidiaries in China, India, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia as its international business grows while maintaining a lean IT footprint.

To learn more, visit the NetSuite Newsroom.
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Shippers Supply, Inc. Hits Aggressive Growth Initiatives With Tour de Force

Shippers Supply, Inc. an independently owned and operated wholesale distributor of shipping, packaging, industrial and productivity/equipment solutions was founded in 1928 in Hopkins, Minnesota and serves the upper Midwest.


Due to growth, Shippers Supply needed a more complete solution that would provide CRM, SFA (sales force automation), BI (business intelligence), and would sync data from their Infor ERP system. They also wanted a system that would allow them to access information from mobile devices and would give them the ability to analyze and manage their sales pipeline.


The team at Shippers Supply chose Tour de Force CRM because of its capabilities for integration with Microsoft Outlook, the integration with the Infor system, and its overall configurability. Tour de Force CRM offers a virtually unlimited number of user defined fields, which allows every company to configure the system to meet their specific needs and processes.


Tour de Force CRM was also able to provide a complete CRM and SFA solution that would allow them to manage their sales pipeline and would provide their sales team with mobile access. According to Jeff Schuppe, Director of Sales and Marketing at Shippers Supply, “The Tour de Force CRM system gives us the ability to link the past with the future. We are very excited to tie our sales pipeline into our strategic business planning process. It will help us to make more calculated business decisions as we continue with our aggressive growth initiatives.”


In addition to the business planning features in Tour de Force CRM, Shippers Supply also uses advanced reporting functions, the Alerts & Notifications module, and tablets for their outside sales team to use Tour de Force CRM Mobile.
To read more, visit the Tour de Force Newsroom.


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