On Time Supply Enhances Inventory Management with Distribution One

From high-quality tools to warranty repair service for air compressors, pneumatic tools, and more, On Time Supply is a distributor in the wholesale hardware industry. On Time Supply relies on the supplementary integration between Distribution One’s comprehensive ERP-ONE software and Amazon for accurate online inventory management and fast order processing.


Integrating ERP-ONE with Amazon provides auto-processing of orders as well as inventory auto-adjustments. The connectivity between Amazon and ERP-ONE has saved On Time Supply up to 2 hours of order processing time savings every day. When viewed on a monthly scale, this equates to a full week of productivity savings.


On Time Supply has also realized productivity improvements relating to their inventory. Under their manual method, the process of maintaining accurate inventory levels on Amazon required 4-5 hours of active daily oversight. After integration, ERP-ONE provides Amazon with real-time inventory levels to reconcile new changes to stock without employee interaction.


Another key component of On Time Supply’s success has been its ability to maintain accurate inventory levels between its storefront and Amazon. If a drill is purchased from the physical storefront, the adjusted information transfers from ERP-ONE to Amazon to ensure the correct product amounts are displayed. Having this inventory auto-update capability is crucial to successful marketplace selling as Amazon does not tolerate order cancellation rates over 2.5% due to out of stock items.


Read more on the Distribution One website. 

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SOKO Creates Global Marketplace With NetSuite

When Gwen Floyd, Ella Peinovich, and Catherine Mahugu launched SOKO in 2012, their goal was to transform the modern fashion industry into one where the default shopping choice is always an ethical one.

The company initially began as a jewelry distributor, connecting local artisans in Nairobi to global retailers. With that in mind, Floyd and her SOKO co-founders decided to create a mobile marketplace that provided the infrastructure local artisans need, effectively becoming a demand-responsive virtual factory that increases artisan income by five times. It also allows SOKO to fulfill orders in mass quantities for large retailers like Anthropologie and Nordstrom.

SOKO then began expanding its supply chain technology to other brands, effectively becoming a Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS) company. Before it launched NetSuite, Mirelle’s team was using QuickBooks accounting software that didn’t connect easily with the supply chain, a wholesale platform to book orders, a CRM system to manage hundreds of accounts, while a simple spreadsheet was being used to keep track of tradeshow costs. “We had to do a lot of manual data cleanup and reformatting across our systems,” Guy said. “And that’s not even counting double-checking for errors.”

Guy and her team wanted to be able to do more with their operations data, like building out projections, accessing customer history and finding ways to align expenses with performance reporting. Customization was a top consideration given the unique business model. Accessibility was a high priority as well, with the team distributed in Nairobi, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

As a result of selecting and implementing NetSuite, the SOKO team is now able to perform sales forecasting with real-time visibility, improving cash flow projections. Past sales forecasts help make the sales team more accurate in future forecasting. They’re able to look at conversion rates from leads to customers, segment wholesale customers by category and territory, and slice and dice reporting on a number of attributes like sales channels, SKUs and territories. Expense reporting for trade shows, customer payment schedules and credit terms are all in one place.

 “Information is easily available much more quickly,” Guy said. The increase in time savings related to NetSuite has allowed the SOKO team to better allocate headcount and be a bit more aggressive. “We’re more lean because we’re not allocating resources towards operational maintenance,” she added. Going forward, Guy and her team are confident that NetSuite can meet their operational needs no matter what direction the business goes.

To learn more, visit the NetSuite Newsroom.

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US Air Tool Flies High with VAI’s Cloud ERP

US Air Tool Company (USATCO) has been a family-owned and operated business since 1951. The company is now a US manufacturer and worldwide distributor of high quality tools for the aviation industry with offices in New York and California.


Challenges
USATCO sought a cloud-based ERP system. The company wanted a solution that would fit within their budget, while also integrating seamlessly into USATCO’s IT environment. It was also important for the company to focus more on managing and growing the business, in addition to enhancing customer service, instead of worrying about software and hardware infrastructure.


VAI S2K Cloud-based ERP: The Natural Solution for USATCO
VAI’s expertise in ERP and reputation for empowering mid-market companies with comprehensive, user-friendly solutions made it the ideal partner to address USATCO’s current and future objectives. VAI made the migration to the cloud smooth and seamless for the company’s IT and end users and assisted USATCO with every step that was required, which included configuring secured connections to the hosted servers, user testing on the hosted server prior to go live, and configuration of external devices such as in-house printers.


Business Results
Following the company’s VAI S2K ERP cloud migration, USATCO has realized key business benefits, including:
•Reduced Maintenance Costs: USATCO no longer needs to manage and maintain internal hardware and software separately, providing significant cost savings.
•Data Backup and Security: VAI S2K Enterprise provides secure access to the ERP system, eliminating the need for USATCO to be concerned with system failures or data breaches.
•Investment Protection: With VAI’s subscription-based payments, USATCO can invest in other areas of the business, such as purchasing new office equipment, enhancing the website, and expanding manufacturing procedures with the new cloud model to better analyze costs.
•Less personnel training is needed: It takes fewer people to do more work on a cloud, with a minimal learning curve on hardware and software issues.
•Application High-Availability: USATCO experiences continuous up-time while experiencing no IT or infrastructure points of failure.


To learn more, visit the VAI Newsroom.


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Furniture Start-up MYCS Selects NetSuite To Expand Business

MYCS, a Berlin-based start-up for customizable furniture, has quickly and easily expanded its business to France, Switzerland and the UK. Oracle NetSuite has enabled MYCS to take advantage of the cloud to gain a single view into key business metrics across its entire operations, streamline business processes and rapidly set up local operations in new markets. To support strong demand and ensure the best possible customer experience, MYCS wanted a cloud-based IT system that could automate manual tasks, help it manage complex sales and warehouse processes and scale to support its international expansion. After careful evaluation of different IT systems, MYCS selected NetSuite.


“We wanted professional process management that could scale and grow the business and facilitate expansion into other countries,” explained Nico Gronwald, Operations Manager & ERP Product Owner, MYCS. “NetSuite provides us with the means to control processes remotely. I am master of my own system. Even for users without any IT knowledge, NetSuite offers simple administration.”


With NetSuite, MYCS has been able to take advantage of localized solutions, ranging from country-specific reporting and audits to the automatic adjustment of currencies and the adaptation of regional tax regulations, to quickly and easily expand into new countries. In addition, by taking advantage of a cloud ERP solution, MYCS has had the flexibility to easily relocate warehouse operations and adapt its product portfolio to local requirements. In the long term, MYCS has further plans to expand into other European countries.


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GoFresh Produce Expands Product Line with VAI

VAI, an independent mid-market ERP software developer, recently announced that GoFresh Produce has implementation VAI’s S2K Analytics software solution. GoFresh opened a new processing facility to prepare cut fruits and vegetables for distribution, a service they previously outsourced. The company anticipates more than 300 tons of fresh produce coming through the 50,000 square-foot facility each week. Founded as a family business in 1941, GoFresh has distributed fresh produce, dairy and other refrigerated goods to Oklahoma for over 75 years, and has since grown its distribution to Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri.


VAI S2K Analytics supports GoFresh’s commitment to processing manufacturing orders same-day, offering real-time inventory management and accurately capturing the cost of the labor that goes into each product. Cut produce is a natural extension for the company and a strategic growth opportunity. 


Said David McMillon, Business Analyst at GoFresh. “S2K provides a real-time view into below-minimum orders, current fill rates, products on the dock, pick rates by picker and items on order. The automatic reporting not only frees up time for our employees, but also prevents inventory mistakes, resulting in better customer service.” Since implementing VAI's ERP software with S2K Analytics, the company has moved away from monitoring and controlling inventory manually, significantly reducing inventory loss and focusing employee time on more value-added tasks. 


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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.

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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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Dowi Hosiery Mills Modernize Key Business Processes With NetSuite

Dowi Hosiery Mills, a leading manufacturer of socks and other hosiery products in the Philippines, implemented NetSuite to streamline key business processes. Dowi Hosiery Mills is using NetSuite for financials, order management, invoicing, billing, purchasing, receiving, shipping, RMA management, multi-location inventory, reporting and analytics.


Dowi had operated its business for years on homegrown, custom software and databases, but the system had severe limitations. The company felt these software limitations harmed the company’s ability to strengthen its retail relationships, and made it difficult to accurately match manufacturing output with demand.


With NetSuite cloud ERP, Dowi has improved operational efficiency and productivity as well as gain the scalability needed to grow its business. The company also observed that it is able to deliver much better service to its retail partners.


NetSuite delivers the following features and benefits to Dowi Hosiery Mills’ success:
◾Efficient order management.
◾Multi-location inventory management.
◾Native cloud solution.
◾Rapid implementation.
◾Data-driven decisions.
◾Customization capabilities.
◾Efficient user interface.
◾A scalable platform.
◾Real-time business visibility and business intelligence.


With NetSuite, Dowi Hosiery Mills has gained real-time insights into key business performance indicators for a unified view across the head office and its subsidiaries.




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Europe Watch Group Selects NetSuite For Global Growth

Europe Watch Group BV, the official worldwide distributor of the CLUSE and Cortese watch brands to customers and retailers in 120 countries, has recently selected NetSuite OneWorld to support its global expansion plans. Europe Watch Group plans to run its mission-critical business processes on NetSuite including accounting, financials, inventory management, order management, multi-currency, reporting and analytics.

Founded in 2013 and based in Amsterdam, the company’s management quickly recognized that the rapid growth of the company was limited by software constraints. Accounting, fulfillment, and ecommerce were siloed processes, leading to a great deal of error-prone, repetitive and manual tasks.


After considering a variety of solutions, Europe Watch Group selected NetSuite OneWorld. NetSuite OneWorld will give the company insights into manufacturing operations in China and fulfillment partner and warehouse inventories around the world. The company is planning to open warehouse locations in Hong Kong and the United States soon, and NetSuite's cloud architecture will make it easy to deploy to new facilities.


Europe Watch Group now sells over 1 million watches annually and expects to multiply that volume in the near future. The centralized record keeping and analysis in NetSuite will make it easier for management to understand growth and demand patterns, and better respond to market opportunities.


NetSuite provides a suite of cloud-based financials/Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and omnichannel commerce software that runs the business of more than 30,000 companies, organizations, and subsidiaries in more than 100 countries. To learn more, visit the NetSuite Newsroom.


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Plasan Leaps Ahead With QAD Cloud ERP

When Plasan Carbon Composites, a manufacturer of carbon fiber automotive components, was about to start a new company with two major Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) customers (General Motors and Chrysler), they realized they were in need of an ERP system that would not only meet their current needs, but also those of a growing and expanding business. They also had to move quickly, but effectively to be successful.

QAD Cloud ERP rose to the top of their Cloud ERP list. “QAD is a major power in the automotive sector and their Cloud ERP is a well established product,” commented Phillip Austin, Plasan’s QAD Systems Manager.

In addition to implementing their new ERP system, there was a critical deadline to satisfy both GM and Chrysler contracts. “We needed to be up and running quickly, so we focused on tracking production, financials, purchasing, and order entry,” noted Austin. “It was invaluable to be able to begin with an ERP implementation that required very little customization. The entire process took less than three months.”

Plasan enjoyed many benefits of their Cloud ERP system as it has proved to be stable, responsive and with excellent uptime. “If we used on premise ERP we would need to double, triple, even quadruple our ERP team to support our 24/7 operations, plus invest in hardware. Thanks to QAD Cloud ERP that we don’t even have to think about that.”

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