Softline Accpac business partner of the year AccTech Systems has installed Accpac ERP at Airedale International Air Conditioning (AIAC), a part of the Modine group of companies.
“The primary reason for changing to Accpac solutions was the fact that there was no support for their old ERP system,” says Tertius Zitzke, chief executive officer at AccTech Systems. “Also, Accpac ERP offered good reporting tools and has an integrated manufacturing module.”
Inna Nowak, Financial and HR Manager, AIAC, explains that reporting was a problem in their old system, as everything had to be custom written. AIAC primarily required a system that could cater for its manufacturing and MRP requirements. Accpac ERP, Accpac Insight, MISys Manufacturing and Accpac CRM were the solutions of choice.
“Not only is the manufacturing system now easy to use and maintain, but purchasing has also been made a lot simpler at AIAC. From a financial point of view, the financial reporting proved impressive, with our group financial director commenting that it is a lot easier to use and produces superior financial reporting in comparison to a competitor's product the company is using at its UK operation.”
Zitzke says the implementation went exceptionally well, ultimately coming in on time and under budget. “This, I feel, was due to detailed planning upfront and the dedication of AIAC and Airedale in the UK. They dedicated a resource in the UK to extracting as much information as possible from their old ERP system, and this made the data conversion relatively painless.”
Having been through a few month-ends with the company since the software was implemented, the main “happiness” factor at AIAC seems to be the ease of processing, says Keith Fenner, Vice-President: Strategic Sales, Softline Accpac. “The month-end, and subsequent reporting to the UK, is now a painless exercise. Along with this, the purchasing process seems to allow them more control than they had previously. Managers have commented that they can now spend more time actually controlling the business than they did before.”
Nowak agrees, stating that certainly from an administrative point of view, processes have improved dramatically. They now have very detailed audit trails, making the identification and correction of errors a lot simpler. Although there's work to be done by the production staff, AIAC feels that there's more effective control overall. There are no more shortcuts (frequently used in the old system), which make data integrity questionable.
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