TECH & DEVELOPMENT
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
STRATEGY, TALENT & MANAGEMENT
This company sells, assembles and distributes a wide range of circuit breakers, relays and power management solutions across a wide range of markets including most sectors of mobility and transport, manufacturing, telecoms and medical devices.
The manufacturer used Microsoft Dynamics AX and wanted to upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics 365 in the Cloud and adopt new more standardized ways of working. With AX becoming unsupported, they wanted to upgrade to keep their business operations running securely.
They needed a system that would enable them to manage their full product range and enable them to efficiently manage their operations across 61 countries.
They wanted to reduce their inventory and wastage, improve their packing efficiency, and reduce the lead times to their customers.
The scope of the solution included: Finance, Supply Chain, Production, Inventory and Warehouse management. The deployment of the finance application included:
MTD (Making Tax Digital), providing a standard approach.
Improvements and transitioning trading document designs to Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Intercompany operations such as a link to a company used to store many components.
Migration of significant quantities of data to enable trading to continue seamlessly.
The company were confident that all their challenges were solved, and they could now deliver more products faster and for less cost for their customers.
Inventory was reduced by 33%.
Delivery performance improved from 73% on time to 88% on time with further improvement expected.
Order accuracy improved to 98.8%.