ShowerLux SA, the Swiss-based company specializing in the manufacture of shower doors, has implemented Infor`s NT-based ERP solution along with JSE-listed Ixchange`s AccountAbility financial management solution to manage the costs and complexities of it`s product range.
Ian Fourie, MD of ShowerLux SA, says the company was looking for a fully-integrated ERP system with financial offering that would fit the company`s needs.
While Infor:NT does not contain a financial solution, an agreement with Ixchange includes AccountAbility as Infor`s financial module. AccountAbility is part of the Ability suite of business management solutions.
Fourie says AccountAbility was found to be more user friendly than ShowerLux`s previous system, and the easily integrated financial application was a factor in its selection.
"Both Infor and Ability range of business management solutions are built on the same platform - Windows NT" says Johan Buys, director of the Ability suite business management solutions at Ixchange.
"Integrating the two suites to securely work together was therefore no complex procedure".
Fourie notes that ShowerLux has been running on a Unix platform, but he was happy to change to NT since there is a large installed base of business running on this operating system.
The company had to acquire a new server, but maintained the rest of the hardware investment and even converted some of the desktop stations into thin clients.
A key factor in the decision to choose Infor as opposed to other applications was it`s Computer Aided Planning (CAP) module, which assisted ShowerLux in the complex configurations of variant product lines. Fourie adds that the company needed to have a user friendly `easy to operate` system that could cope with the immense complexities of a `made to specification` environment. The comprehensive online help and the dynamic support provided by Infor and Ixchange, as well as the ease of data migration from the old system, also counted in Infor/Ixchange`s favour. ShowerLux SA employs 69 people in three branches and it`s parent company more than 3000 people worldwide
"We are proud to be associated with ShowerLux, and glad that we were able to offer and meet their specific requirements, to secure their future growth. Our best of breed knowledge-based variants further adds real value to ShowerLux`s operations, and gives them the return on investment that was rightfully expected" says Dr Jurgen Laakmann, managing director of Infor South Africa.
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