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Norbar looks to Access Supply Chain
Norbar Torque Tools, a manufacturer of torque tools, is implementing a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution from Access
Supply Chain, to support a period of rapid business growth.
Norbar Torque Tools, based in Banbury, UK, has operations in Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore and the USA. It employs 188 people and
has a turnover of £19 million.
In recent years Norbar says its sales have doubled and the increase in numbers of transactions was overloading its existing IT system. It therefore
selected Access Supply Chain, due to its capability to handle diverse production streams, including make-to-order, engineer-to-order and
assemble-to-order. Access also delivered the required MRP functionality and supports Norbar's new lean manufacturing processes.
"Access Supply Chain took such a thorough, consultative sales approach, that it almost felt like 'try before you buy'. It gave us the confidence that
its system did indeed meet our requirements." says Norbar's finance manager and project leader, Ann Marie Paddock. "The professional and
balanced sales approach also gave us confidence, whilst its implementation team has continued to give excellent support as we configure the
system."
Norbar's operations manager, Graham Daniels sees another key benefit: "The Access Supply Chain software allows much better visibility of
work-in-progress and so will help us promise shorter delivery times with a high confidence level."
Apriso expands FlexNet
DocuWare expanding
Apriso®, a provider of adaptive software solutions for global Manufacturing
as planned
Operations Management (MOM), has announced that it has expanded quality
planning capabilities within the latest version of FlexNet® Quality 3.0. After careful considerations of the current, overall,
FlexNet Quality functions as a “hub” for Enterprise Quality Management across economic business developments worldwide, the
manufacturing operations. Apriso says that this product expansion allows quality DocuWare Group’s executive board has decided that
characteristics to be collected according to an Inspection Plan residing within FlexNet, all long-term expansions will be executed as
instead of relying on external systems such as ERP, which may lead to unnecessary planned.
delays or disruption of material flows, impacting Lean and other continuous “At the current time, the number of anticipated sales
improvement initiatives. worldwide has never been higher. Our sales partners
“This integrated solution creates and expands sampling procedures, which can then have confirmed that, with very few exceptions, they are
be scheduled to integrate inspection priorities across manufacturing, warehouse and not expecting any delays or cancellations of planned
supply chain operations. Customers can now perform sampling with far greater business due to general economic conditions,” said both
flexibility, including based on ISO 2859 rules, which includes determining sample size executive board members, Juergen Biffar and Thomas
according to lot size or severity level. Results are available in real-time, to support Schneck.
immediate corrective actions, as well as to quickly provide valuable information to Based on feedback from its sales partners, DocuWare
corporate planning and reporting activities within enterprise applications, such as is also optimistic about sales for 2009. In large part this
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).” is due to the fact that electronic document management
Recognising that ‘one size’ seldom fits all, Apriso says it has designed its latest is extremely useful in tough economic times to help
application to work in a modular fashion. By including as much or as little quality save costs and increase sales power.
management functionality as needed, ERP users need not embark on a ‘rip and “Our qualified sales partners are able to clearly
replace’ strategy. Instead, manufacturers can complement and leverage existing IT, communicate these benefits - which has served them well
QMS or ERP investments, adding FlexNet Quality where appropriate, addressing unmet in other difficult phases. DocuWare’s quick implementation
Quality assurance needs without ‘over-purchasing’ software with redundancy in and minimal maintenance are additional helpful
functionality. arguments within the competitive landscape.”
SAP sets the standard
SAP AG has announced strong global momentum for its SAP® for Wholesale Distribution solutions, with a rapidly growing customer base
and the endorsements of leading industry companies from around the globe, including Reyher.
The SAP for Wholesale Distribution solution portfolio has attracted more than 3,700 wholesalers, which SAP says makes it the standard software
provider of choice for wholesale distributors. The solutions help large, midsize and small distributors automate and optimise business processes,
reduce supply chain costs, increase cash-flow and facilitate collaboration with suppliers, customers and partners.
SAP understands the complex challenges of wholesale distribution. Low profit margins, rising logistical costs and intensified competition are
driving companies to seek better visibility and technical advantage with state-of-the-art IT solutions. To address these challenges and maximise
return on investment, the enterprise software packages are tailored to the specialised needs of the different segments within the wholesale
distribution industry.
“By selecting software from SAP and SAP partners for wholesale distribution, we were able to get business solutions based on experience
gleaned from several installations for midsize technical wholesalers,” said Peter Bielert, vice president, logistics and process management, Reyher.
“The SAP NetWeaver technology platform and service-oriented architecture support our efforts to implement solutions and automate processes that
link us to our 10,000 customers and our 700 suppliers. In addition, the fixed cost and time release update approach provided us with payback on
our company’s investment in the new SAP ERP Central Component quickly and virtually risk free.”
SAP says that its strong ecosystem of partners enables customers to quickly find and deploy the wholesale solutions to accelerate innovation,
improve return on investment and grow.
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