Infor Manufacturing Essentials for RP Adam

Infor secures significant contract with leading industrial chemicals manufacturer.

Infor, a global provider of enterprise software solutions to select manufacturing and distribution industries, has won a contract to supply its Manufacturing Essentials to leading industrial chemicals manufacturer, RP Adam , based in Selkirk on the Scottish Border.

RP Adam supplies industrial chemicals to a wide variety of industrial and consumer verticals including the leisure industry, pub chains, schools and county councils.

It also has a sizeable global market, and a number of foreign subsidiaries.

RP Adam's Purchasing Director Rachael Wright explained why the company chose the Infor Manufacturing Essentials solution SyteLine7: "The overriding benefit of the system from our point of view is its impressive, seamless level of integration over all modules, and its Real Time Shop Floor Data Collection and Business Intelligence functionality".

"This type of functionality is something we have never had in place before".

"Basically, we anticipate Infor Manufacturing Essentials being of inestimable value to us right across our business spectrum, from the shop floor to the Boardroom.

Wright outlined some of the constraints the company has suffered through the use of its old software package: "Our previous package was first sourced in 1999 and for the past six years really hasn't proved to us that it has the flexibility we require as a successful, constantly expanding company".

"We have also been restricted by having a number of disparate IT systems".

"For example, we have been using a Customer Relationship Management system run on an Access database".

"However it is a standalone solution and cannot directly share information with our other IT systems".

"Consequently a lot of time has been wasted transferring data from one system to another, and there has always existed the risk of data inaccuracies due to the level of dual keying of data that has taken place".

"Our main IT system has also lacked the flexible functionality we require in terms of preparing reports from various information sources.

The company therefore set about looking for a replacement software solution and recruited the services of an IT procurement consultant, who prepared a list of 12 potential software suppliers, based on RP Adam's required specifications.

"We then put each potential system through a rigorous test regime involving workshops and academic analysis," Wright commented.

"But it was obvious from an early stage that Infor SyteLine offered the level of integration and functionality we required, and the flexibility to adapt and grow with us as a company.

Implementation of Infor solutions is due to commence imminently, with a go-live date anticipated to be 4 January 2006.

"Infor's Professional Services consultants will undertake the implementation and will work with our department heads to train our staff both in terms of everyday use and in order to ensure we get the very best from the system," said Wright.

Keith Deane, Infor Global Solutions' VP EMEA Operations commented: "We are delighted that once again Infor Manufacturing Essentials has been chosen by a leading manufacturer for its rich functionality, flexibility and level of integration".

"We very much look forward to working with RP Adam during the implementation and training stages to ensure it gets maximum benefit from the system from the outset of the go-live date.

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