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News Release from: Access Supply Chain | Subject: ERP at Thermotec Plastics
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 January 2008
ERP system provides more company
visibility
ERP system provides a plastics vacuum forming company with company-wide visibility and improved data accuracy while being more flexible and user-friendly.
Company-wide visibility and improved data accuracy are just two of the benefits anticipated by vacuum-forming specialist Thermotec Plastics, now that it has ordered a new ERP system from Access Supply Chain Thermotec Plastics of Witton, Birmingham, UK, is a plastics vacuum-forming specialist
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 28 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Formerly part of the Sertec Group, the company was bought out in July 2006 and began trading as Thermotec Plastics.
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At the same time, it decided to look for a new ERP solution to help drive the business forwards.
For Thermotec, technical excellence and exceptional service are prerequisites.
It had to find a system that could mirror these attributes and which would support it going forward.
After investigation of the market, Thermotec narrowed the choice to two suppliers.
"Access Supply Chain won the day on several counts," said operations director at Thermotec, Rob Parsons.
"The system seemed much more flexible and user-friendly, it was better value for money and their people really understood what we wanted to do with the solution".
As part of the 10-user system implementation, Thermotec Plastics is installing data capture centres on the shopfloor.
Touchscreens will enable operatives to have instant access to job specifications, and will give the management team an immediate view of work in progress at any point.
The implementation project is underway: Thermotec and Access Supply Chain are setting the scope for the project, which will be piloted in phases.
Parsons was looking forward to the planned go-live date of April 2008: "Once this system is up and running, we will be able to view data that is relevant, accurate and which has only been keyed in once".
"We won't need separate spreadsheets to gather information and we'll be able to compare material and job costings, for example, at the push of a button".
For Thermotec Plastics, zero-defect quality has to be top priority and the new software will underpin process improvements across the board: "Access Supply Chain will run everything from cradle to grave: from order processing, through shopfloor data capture, finished goods despatch and beyond," said Parsons.
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