Specialist Manufacturer Duvale Selects Epicor(R) to Help Leapfrog Its Competition
23 September 2010 - 11:00PM
Marketwired
Epicor Software Corporation (NASDAQ: EPIC), a leading provider of
enterprise business software solutions for the midmarket and
divisions of Global 1000 companies, today announced that Duvale
PLC, a specialist manufacturer of precision crafted acoustic
movable walls and sliding folding partitions, has selected the
Epicor 9 next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP)
solution. Epicor will replace the discrete systems used by Duvale's
finance, manufacturing and sales departments, as well as provide
management reporting across the business.
As a successful specialist manufacturer that has experienced
year-on-year double-digit growth and a turnover in excess on £5m,
Duvale has made the replacement of its enterprise systems a
strategic priority not only to support its business now, but for
the future, as it continues to grow and expand into new
geographies.
"While our current systems have served us well, we believe the
business can achieve even greater success and leapfrog its
competitors. Replacing our ERP system is a key part of moving
forward," said Mike Doorly, operations director at Duvale. "What
attracted us to Epicor was that it could serve every area of our
business out of the box with few changes, both now and in the
future."
One of the key challenges facing Duvale was the way its data and
applications were isolated from each other, with much of the
business relying on spreadsheets developed more than 15 years ago.
This was having an impact in several areas of the business. First,
the company was forced to keep high levels of stock, because it
could not guarantee items would be available to meet the planned
production timetables. Second, the company could not monitor the
performance and profitability of individual production runs, even
those that were standard products. Finally, the finance department
had been overwhelmed by the strong and consistent growth of the
business and needed to modernise its processes in order to deal
with the two-month backlog it was facing.
"One of the key benefits of Epicor for us is the built-in
dashboard and reporting," added Doorly. "We will be able to run
reports to review every aspect of the business, whether financial
or manufacturing related, in an instant. With the dashboard our
staff will be able to monitor their own performance by clocking in
and out of individual jobs. We will also achieve accurate
visibility across the business, something we have not been able to
do before."
Through its use of the embedded Epicor Configurator, the sales
teams will be able to replace spreadsheets used for even the most
complex products, and provide customers accurate pricing and
delivery dates. The embedded Advanced Planning and Scheduling
system within Epicor will mean Duvale can hold much lower stock
levels, ordering materials as needed and freeing cash resources for
other parts of its operations.
"For us Epicor is a solution that will grow with us over many
years to come," concluded Doorly. "Many of the companies we spoke
with simply misunderstood what we wanted to achieve, but the Epicor
team not only understood us, it had the product that covered all
our needs."
"Increasingly, we are engaging with customers that see refining
their systems as a key part of their growth strategy as the global
recovery gets underway," added Matt Muldoon, vice president of
product marketing at Epicor. "More than ever before customers are
seeing the value in systems that provide deeply embedded functional
processes and can easily adapt to meet the priorities they've
identified for tackling the recovery, rather than forcing them to
compromise."
About Epicor Software Corporation Epicor
Software (NASDAQ: EPIC) is a global leader delivering business
software solutions to the manufacturing, distribution, retail,
hospitality and services industries. With 20,000 customers in over
150 countries, Epicor provides integrated enterprise resource
planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply
chain management (SCM) and enterprise retail software solutions
that enable companies to drive increased efficiency and improve
profitability. Founded in 1984, Epicor takes pride in more than 25
years of technology innovation delivering business solutions that
provide the scalability and flexibility businesses need to build
competitive advantage. Epicor provides a comprehensive range of
services with a single point of accountability that promotes rapid
return on investment and low total cost of ownership, whether
operating business on a local, regional or global scale. The
Company's worldwide headquarters are located in Irvine, California
with offices and affiliates around the world. For more information,
visit www.epicor.com.
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