Filtrec Bharat Accelerates Growth With Infor

Filtrec Bharat, a specialist in manufacturing filter elements for industrial and process filters, has recently announced that it has selected the Infor LN solution for its expertise in manufacturing planning and supply chain. Infor LN offers a comprehensive ERP solution that provides a consolidated view of complex global operations from design to delivery, including manufacturing, supply chain management, and after-market services.


With business operations spread across India and Italy, Filtrec Bharat faces complex challenges. Among the key considerations are seamless production planning for product customization, shorter product lifecycles and effective traceability for transparent integration across multiple systems. Filtrec Bharat's existing legacy infrastructure was unable to meet the agility required by a modern discrete manufacturer. With Infor LN, Filtrec Bharat will benefit by streamlining operations and drive collaboration across business functions for informed decisions.


"Our business required a robust solution addressing the complexities of modern discrete manufacturing comprising product prototyping, production planning and supply chain management. We chose Infor for their expertise in meeting our unique business requirements and compressive solution capabilities that are built for the future," said Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Executive Director-Commercial, Filtrec Bharat Manufacturing.



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ISCO Industries Keeps Pipeline Full With MITS

ISCO Industries is one of the largest suppliers of HDPE (high-density polyethylene) pipe and related services in the United States. Founded in 1962 in Louisville, Kentucky, ISCO has more than 350 employees and operates 28 facilities in the United States, Canada and Australia.


ISCO has stringent security requirements that any technology solution it implements needs to meet. Usability and a short learning curve were also critical. When searching for a business intelligence solution to support the required queries and reports, MITS Discover Business Intelligence solution rose to the top.


The MITS security capabilities let each sales rep quickly see the information they need to see, while protecting sensitive data from unauthorized eyes. The company also purchased the MitsMaker design tool and attended MITS hosted training with the intention of designing some of its own hypercubes going forward.


Since the implementation, ISCO reports that one of the most positive outcomes from MITS Discover has been speed and the ease of learning. The sales force can very quickly get all the information they need to do their job. ISCO’s MITS Discover implementation will continue to expand as they learn to create their own hypercubes using MitsMaker. The company also acquired a license for the MITS Report operational reporting solution, and has begun studying related data requirements.


To learn more visit the MITS Newsroom.


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Business At Riverside Wholesale Blooms With Floral Computer Systems

Riverside Wholesale Florist of Paducah, Kentucky, has been in the business of premium fresh cut flowers since 1983.  Prior to implementing Floral Computer Systems, hours were spent sourcing the perfect product, looking through records, and tracking inventory with pen and paper.  After the switch to Floral, the business was able to monitor their margins and product loss and for the first time, sell against incoming inventory.


Said Clay Smith, Riverside Wholesale Florist's Manager, “Floral Computer has changed the game for us, completely.” Because of Floral's system, customers are getting better service and employees are saving considerable time without having to run back and forth between coolers to look at our inventory.  The complicated task of keeping prices up to date has been cut from hours to minutes and Floral Computer runs seamlessly with QuickBooks to make accounting easier than ever.


Said Smith, "Getting Floral Computer in our store is like giving a telescope to Galileo. With the experience of our staff combined with the effectiveness of Floral Computer, we are seeing results we never thought possible."


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Regal Wine Imports Chooses Blue Ridge to Balance Demand with Inventory

Regal Wine Imports recently selected Ridge to optimize its wine and spirits inventory. Founded in 1980, Regal Wine Imports is an importer and wholesale distributor of fine wines, craft beers and spirits based in Moorestown, New Jersey. Co-owners Charlie Trivinia and Dan Bada have grown the company significantly, now counting more than 75 employees, three offices, and a broad local and national distribution network.


The Blue Ridge supply chain platform was selected for its accuracy in helping retailers and distributors spot and plan for changes in customer demand before they happen. This insight helps Blue Ridge customers reduce costs, improve service levels, and assure product availability to customers without creating a costly inventory surplus.


Blue Ridge’s distribution-focused forecasting and inventory planning technology is particularly effective for wine and spirits distributors. Regal Wine Imports joins fellow distributors Athens Distributing Company, Eder Bros., Georgia Crown Distributing Co., United Distributors, Major Brands Premium Beverage Distributors, Martingnetti Companies and Vectura as Blue Ridge customers.


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Billows Electric Supply Enhances Business Intelligence With Phocas

Billows Electric Supply (Billows) is a family-owned business founded in Philadelphia, PA in 1950. Since that time, the company has grown to more than 250 employees operating 19 locations throughout the Delaware Valley. Billows provides the full spectrum of residential and commercial electrical needs, switchgear and lighting.


Over the years, Billows has used several solutions for data analytics, but the most important factors to the company were ease of implementation and use. In the past, Billows had to build silos of information for other analytics software packages, and their complexity meant only a few trained people could and would use them. When Billows was introduced to Phocas, it was clear that it would be easy to gather information and make it accessible to different employees. Phocas provides a simple, accessible solution that makes business intelligence available to everyone in the organization, including non-technical users.


David Lowenstein, vendor relations at Billows, added, “What was important about Phocas was that people could just use the product. They could create their own reports or use pre-fab reports. Phocas made data analytics and reporting accessible to more people throughout the company."


Phocas is now used across Billows for a variety of applications. The sales team sets up reports that are emailed to them on a regular basis. They can track their sales, as well as dig further into transaction details to identify challenges and opportunities. Lowenstein and the vendor relations team create custom reports and dashboards that are used for vendor negotiations. Rather than printing off a variety of reports for vendor meetings, they pull up Phocas’ online dashboards to show customers their transaction history with Billows, which helps when negotiating future product pricing. The executives are also taking advantage of Phocas’ dashboards, which allow them to see from a high level what is going on with sales and inventory across the business. They click on an emailed report link, log into Phocas and can quickly review the top-level numbers, drilling into the data to get more details about customers, inventory and transactions.


Lowenstein concluded, “You can do more with Phocas than you can even imagine and you can now get business intelligence into the hands of people across the organization who don’t have access to data today.”


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Abraham Linc Enhances Productivity With Kerridge WMS

Headquartered in Bridgeport, WV, Abraham Linc distributes high-quality, great-value floor covering products throughout the Mid-Atlantic. It is critical that customers can rely on Abraham Linc to maintain an inventory of the right quantity of the right products at the right time. Right pricing is also important to ensure a fair profit for both Abraham Linc and its customers. Abraham Linc accomplishes this with the help of Kerridge's Integrated Warehouse Management System (WMS). It ensures that when customers’ orders are received, the product is available to pull and process for delivery — and in the most efficient way possible.

Gains and benefits Abraham Linc has realized as a result of implementing Kerridge's WMS:

• Monitoring the real-time workflow and inventory at all three warehouses
• Receiving Picking Staging and shipping accurately and efficiently
• Inventory control and cycle counting by item, serial number or location
• Automatic email notifications when adjustments are made
• Productivity analysis of each warehouse employee
• Barcode label generation
• Location management

Said Abraham Linc CFO Robert Marra II. “Having the ability to scan all of our products in and out — and know exactly where they are — is a tremendous benefit. We’re able to turn a greater volume of product with minimum workforce.”




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SPA Outlines How Pricing Agreements Drain Profits

Distributors must carefully and proactively manage Special Pricing Agreements (SPAs) to prevent margin erosion. Unfortunately, faced with the complexity of managing thousands of line items, all with different expiration dates, terms and pricing structures, many distributors have allowed their contracts to run on autopilot, resulting in significant value erosion.


This is exacerbated by three common scenarios:
1. Vendor pricing inevitably changes over time, usually increasing distributors’ cost to serve. The problem with keeping SPA agreements the same year after year is that the variables that made them profitable initially – such as volume and vendor pricing – tend to change over time.


2. Sales reps, who lack the time to carefully review existing SPA agreements (and who don't want to rock the boat), request extensions at the last minute. Unless they are equipped with a contract management solution, distributors have no good way to handle these last-minute requests leaving little time to determine which contract extensions are truly warranted as-is and which leave pricing below market.

3. In the absence of data, emotions drive pricing and customer negotiations. Many distributors can’t easily see whether a contract is under-performing. When the fear of losing a customer isn't balanced against the data, even the most lopsided SPA agreements are renewed.
SPA's Contract Management Solution (CMS) has simple options from highly granular and flexible to sweeping and efficient for searching, summarizing and modifying what’s always been a hornet’s nest of data. Distributors can eliminate unprofitable contract scenarios and quickly and efficiently update contract pricing for low-volume and low-sensitivity items, maximizing profits while minimizing customer push-back. SPA provides the analytical tools and online training to drive continuous improvements in adoption and thus profit improvement.


To learn more about what SPA can do for your business, visit http://www.strategicpricing.com/clients/industries




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