Microsoft Dynamics AX ve NAV ERP Çözümleri

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Case Studies. Canari Cyclewear

Cycling-Gear Manufacturer Improves Operations and Planning with New Business Software

Canari Cyclewear is a fast-growing manufacturer of cycling gear based in San Diego, California. The company needed a flexible and full-featured enterprise resource planning system to efficiently handle double-digit annual growth, especially in the area of inventory management and forecasting. After consultation with Microsoft Certified Partner OfficeOps, Canari Cyclewear chose Microsoft Dynamics NAV because of the solution's ability to streamline processes within the company and with supply chain partners. Canari Cyclewear can now more reliably plan future inventory requirements and has cut lead times for customer orders by as much as 60 percent.

“Whereas our planning process previously involved a lot of guesswork, we now have instant insight into what is available and can investigate historical trends to better gauge demand.“

Chris Robinson, Chief Operating Officer, Canari Cyclewear

Business Needs Canari Cyclewear manufactures top-of-the-line cycling gear that is resold by independent bike shops and large sporting-goods retailers around the world. The company also sells custom gear to professional and semiprofessional cycling teams. From 2005 to 2008, the company saw sustained double-digit growth in sales, which put pressure on the company to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its inventory management and reporting systems.

“We were using a DOS-based system and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to keep track of orders and roughly $5 million worth of inventory and to try and forecast demand,” explains Chris Robinson, Chief Operating Officer at Canari Cyclewear. “This method required us to manually collect and enter data. Overall, the process was tedious and prone to error, especially because some part numbers exceeded 50 characters.”

As Canari Cyclewear grew its sales, the company struggled to stay responsive to customer demands. “Our larger competitors can ask customers to prebook their orders, which gives them greater visibility into future production requirements,” explains Robinson. “We don’t have that luxury, and it puts pressure on us to manage our inventory well. We need to know what our demand is, what we have on hand, and what is forecasted on a SKU level.”

To find a solution, Canari Cyclewear began interviewing local business technology companies. “Many of the companies we talked to seemed more interested in selling us software than getting to know our business and helping us solve our problems,” says Robinson.

Solution

After evaluating more than 10 software solutions, Canari Cyclewear chose Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Certified Partner OfficeOps. “We chose Microsoft Dynamics NAV because it addressed our inventory management needs and is flexible and full-featured enough to meet our needs in the future,” says Robinson.

Canari Cyclewear appreciated the consultative approach that OfficeOps used during their initial discussions, which indicated the partner was willing to take the time to understand Canari Cyclewear’s unique business challenges and recommend the best solution. For example, OfficeOps offered pragmatic advice on how to handle Canari Cyclewear’s custom-order business, which can involve up to 20 documents for one order.

“Our custom-order business is very complex and today makes up only about 10 percent of our sales,” says Robinson. “However, we would like to see this segment grow to 30 percent of sales and wanted to streamline processes to accommodate that increase. OfficeOps suggested that we implement Microsoft Dynamics NAV for our core business and then tackle the custom-order side. We followed that advice and can see in retrospect that it saved us from a lot of potential difficulties.” After Canari Cyclewear finished implementing the solution for its core business, the company tapped OfficeOps to extend the solution for its custom-order business.

The solution that Canari Cyclewear and OfficeOps implemented makes inventory information instantly available to employees so that they can view stock levels by style, color, and size. Each employee has a unique view of functionality and information based on their role in the company. The solution links to other business software to eliminate duplicate data entry and automatically pull in information from supply chain partners.

Now, employees no longer need to enter information from invoices into the system by hand, for instance. Canari Cyclewear uses Microsoft Dynamics NAV to make manual processes, such as documentation and warehouse management tasks, easier. For example, instead of filling out packing labels by hand, employees can print import/export documentation and shipping labels that conform to customer requirements.

Managers at Canari Cyclewear use Microsoft Dynamics NAV to identify sales trends by style, gender, selling region, product type, and other attributes that the company decides to track. And, because Microsoft Dynamics NAV works well with Excel, managers can view and analyze data in spreadsheets with only a few clicks of a mouse.

Benefits

Canari Cyclewear enjoys greater insight into available inventory and future demand and no longer relies on time-consuming and error-prone manual processes for common tasks like entering sales orders and producing reports.

More Efficient Demand Planning

With detailed reporting available through Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Canari Cyclewear can more accurately predict future demand. “Whereas our planning process previously involved a lot of guesswork, we now have instant insight into what is available and can investigate historical trends to better gauge demand,” says Robinson. “We can better align our inventory with demand, which lets us reduce our stock levels for some categories by as much as 30 percent and reinvest those resources in products that are selling well.”

Lead Times Cut by 60 Percent

Canari Cyclewear’s warehouse operations are much more efficient with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. “If a large order comes in on Monday, we can usually ship it on Thursday,” says Robinson. “Before, it would have taken another week. This not only improves our image with customers but also gives our product more time on retail shelves.”

Reliable Technology and Partner

Robinson and other leaders at Canari Cyclewear feel confident that Microsoft Dynamics NAV will support future growth and are happy with OfficeOps as their partner. “We chose Microsoft Dynamics NAV, in part, because of the people at OfficeOps,” says Robinson. “They were interested in more than just the initial sale and were genuinely concerned about solving our problems. And, they’ve done a good job of providing us with the training and insight we need to be self-sufficient in using the solution.”

Organization Profile

Based in San Diego, California, with 80 employees, Canari Cyclewear makes premium clothes and accessories for cyclists around the world.

Partner(s)
OfficeOps

Software and Services
Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Vertical Industries
apparel retailing

Country/Region
United States

http://www.pargesoft.com/ Microsoft Dynamics AX, NAV Global Partner

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Manage organizational growth with Microsoft Dynamics AX

Scale your business systems rapidly and efficiently to support new users, new locations, and new lines of business

As your organization expands, the ability to rapidly scale your ERP systems to support new users, new locations, and new lines of business—as well as to improve the efficiency of core business processes—is critical. Systems that keep pace with your growing business can minimize growing pains and ensure your company is poised for future success.

Whether you’re supporting the organic growth of your existing business, expanding by adding new locations, or transforming your organization through merger or acquisition, Microsoft Dynamics AX can help you manage a smooth transition as you take your business to the next level. Here’s how:

Ensure smooth integration of merged or newly acquired companies

Rapidly gain visibility into the new or combined entity and/or subsidiaries by integrating all business systems and capturing manual business processes. Aggregating and analyzing data from disparate systems can help deliver operational insight, enabling better sales and production forecasting, materials scheduling, inventory management, and other critical processes.

A familiar, comfortable user interface and intuitive Role Centers help employees quickly become proficient in ERP functionality, reducing downtime and training time, and eliminating resistance to adoption of the new systems.

Quickly add new locations or international offices

Track multiple business units within a single organization as separate profit/loss centers. Scale to support an unlimited number of books for asset management and support different depreciation methods depending on tax authority and financial reporting purposes.

Rapidly add international capabilities and new functionality. Support for multiple languages and currencies, country-specific functionality, and a rich set of multi-site shared services and intercompany functionality make it straightforward to extend Microsoft Dynamics AX with the exact capabilities you need—when and where you need them.

Scale your systems along with your business

Improve the speed of transaction processing and scale your transactional volume by automating business workflows, freeing people for other, more productive work, and reducing overhead costs as you grow.

Respond quickly to new opportunities by integrating discrete budgeting and planning processes into the daily rhythm of the business. High performance systems enable you to run production and planning processes more frequently, so you can react to changes and increase company performance and schedule efficiencies.

Support your growing organization

Maintain appropriate staffing levels and manage future organizational changes, including planned reorganizations and hiring campaigns by automating internal and external recruitment processes such as sourcing jobs, managing recruitment, and hiring new workers—including hiring en masse.

Enable employees to spot trends and respond proactively. More easily perform complex analyses on data involving numerous aspects of the business, so people across the organization can make more confident decisions about high-risk business situations based on data from multiple sources.

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Microsoft Dynamics ERP Industrie Fabrication-Agroalimentaire

Votre secteur se caractérise par une remarquable diversité. Des milliers de produits et de nombreux types de processus (notamment produits frais, réfrigérés, surgelés et de longue conservation) servent un vaste éventail de clients, depuis les grands détaillants jusqu'aux petites chaînes, magasins indépendants, services de restauration, restaurants et exportateurs. Vous devez répondre aux demandes des détaillants et des clients, gérer des processus de chaîne logistique et, enfin, assurer la coordination des délais et des calendriers de livraison.

Les solutions Microsoft Dynamics vous apportent un ensemble puissant d'applications. Ces applications intégrées, simples et peu onéreuses à déployer, ne nécessitent ni personnalisation complexe ni projets de mise en œuvre longs.

Pour anticiper sur les tendances de consommation

Utilisation d'informations en temps réel afin d'identifier les tendances et les opportunités pour de nouveaux produits. Prise de décision exacte et en temps réel fondée sur des données précises et centralisées. Adaptation de l'offre des produits pour tenir compte des changements dans les stocks et dans la planification de la production. Adaptation des formules et des compositions à la variabilité de la taille des lots. Accélération de la commercialisation par une intégration efficace des recettes, de la fabrication, des finances et de l'approvisionnement. Gestion des plans marketing complexes et des programmes d'encouragement à la vente.

Pour améliorer la chaîne logistique

Amélioration de la visibilité de votre chaîne logistique globale. Rationalisation de la chaîne logistique et des processus de fabrication afin d'optimiser la capacité de production ainsi que les stocks de matériaux achetés et de produits finis. Vue unifiée et en temps réel sur les données provenant de plusieurs sites et départements. Réactivité par anticipation des ruptures de stock. Efficacité renforcée par une gestion optimisée des transferts sur les quais et une planification de la distribution.

Pour contrôler la sécurité alimentaire

Automatisation des principales exigences de sécurité (législation relative à l'hygiène par exemple). Suivi automatique des matières premières et des produits à toutes les étapes. Mise en application des normes opérationnelles. Rationalisation et automatisation des procédures de mise en quarantaine. Automatisation et rapidité des rappels grâce à l'historique des lots. Réduction des temps de réponse des responsables.

Microsoft Dynamics AX for discrete manufacturing

Success in the manufacturing industry requires that you produce the right products, in the right quantities, at the right time, with good quality, and at a price the customer is willing to pay. The flexibility to respond to compliance standards and the ever-changing needs of customers, such as providing real-time visibility into global operations, is also imperative for success. Meeting these demands requires the ability to make quick decisions based on accurate data. Microsoft and its partners deliver systems that can help you improve operations, open visibility into the supply chain, and increase your competitiveness.

Microsoft Dynamics AX can help streamline processes and minimize the costs of carrying inventory for firms that produce goods from raw materials.

Lean Manufacturing for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Lean Manufacturing for Microsoft Dynamics AX can help manufacturing organizations implement, energize, and sustain lean manufacturing initiatives by delivering the tools and information support needed to streamline processes, reduce waste, enable demand-pull operations, and promote continuous improvement. As part of Microsoft Dynamics AX, robust lean manufacturing functionality complements the solution’s comprehensive customer relationship, financial, collaboration, and supply chain management capabilities to help manufacturers increase efficiency and profitability and gain a competitive advantage.

This functionality is delivered as an integral part of a flexible and familiar end-to-end business management solution complete with the business insight and collaboration tools you need to sustain lean manufacturing and gain a competitive advantage.

Apparel and Textile for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Apparel and Textile for Microsoft Dynamics AX can help you address the complex coding, traceability, and changing process needs of apparel and textile manufacturers—from fibers to yarns, consumer and industrial fabrics, home goods, clothing, designer lines, and fashion accessories. If you can satisfy demanding customers and sustain agile businesses, you are better equipped to stay ahead of global competition, manage complex supply networks, and handle ongoing mergers and acquisitions.

Apparel and Textile for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Apparel and Textile for Microsoft Dynamics AX is designed to address complex coding, traceability, and changing process needs of apparel and textile manufacturers—from fibers to yarns, consumer and industrial fabrics, home goods, clothing, designer lines, and fashion accessories. With the ability to satisfy demanding customers and sustain agile businesses, you are better equipped to stay ahead of global competition, manage complex supply networks, and handle ongoing mergers and acquisitions.

Traceability

Gain comprehensive traceability and handle numerous material and product variables effectively with multi-dimensional item coding.

Track materials through variable sourcing and manufacturing processes, subcontractors, inventory, and logistics, including intercompany processing.

Manage complex item variables with advanced coding attributes and "smart" stock-keeping unit (SKU) coding for raw materials, process outputs, and item characteristics.

Automatically update item codes based on manufacturing process completion with transaction-driven code changes and extensions.

Link finished goods back to components and suppliers through item bills of material (BOMs).

Financial management

Control costs by monitoring and analyzing material, item, order, and cost information using comprehensive financial management tools.

Analyze performance and profitability across your business.

Generate multi-faceted price lists that include promotional, trade show, or showroom pricing.

Process management

Increase agility with adaptable processes for sourcing, manufacturing, and shipment allocation.

Meet changing customer and supplier requirements with blanket orders, neutral BOMs, multiline manufacturing orders, inventory double units of measure, and variable routing and allocation simulations.

Enable production and materials planning, independent of variables such as size, color, or color-way.

Run simulations and model new processes to adapt quickly to changes.

Production

Increase efficiency.

Support either push or pull production policies, and integrate subcontractor routings and management into planning and logistics.

Customer orders

Streamline order entry.

Create multiple order types, such as collection and showroom orders, and opening blanket orders with truncated codes for later specification.

Accommodate multiple shipment addresses and delivery dates per order.

Save time making mass modifications in existing or blanket orders.

Define and meet customer requirements for put-up options, labeling, unitizing, and documentation.

Speed billing and reconciliation with item and shipment information that is fully integrated into invoicing and accounting processes.

Quality assurance

Integrate quality grading processes and information into the production and supply chain.

Allocate products of various grades to different distribution channels.

Gain insight into grade costs and profitability.

Inventory management

Maintain multiple material status indicators.

Improve inventory management with comprehensive tracking of materials and finished goods.

Supply chain management

Increase supply chain visibility.

Monitor subcontractor performance, and collaborate effectively.

Incorporate supply partners into costing and routing decisions.

Share demand and inventory information in real time.

Use multicurrency, multilingual, and multisite support to speed transactions, improve transparency, and provide consolidated financial reporting to people worldwide.

Offer trade partners security-enhanced, self-service access to key business processes through familiar Web browsers.

Price lists

Access integrated cost information.

Easily generate price lists for finished goods of various quality grades, sizing, and quantities.

Create and maintain special promotional, trade show, or showroom pricing.

Units of measure and conversion

Automate measurement conversions based on algorithms for improved accuracy and consistency.

Microsoft Dynamics für Transport und Logistik

Das bewegt die Branche: Branchenlösungen von Microsoft Dynamics für Transport und Logistik

Unternehmen in Transport und Logistik müssen ihre Produkte und Dienstleistungen eng mit ihren Auftraggebern verzahnen und für transparente Prozesse entlang der Supply Chain sorgen. Und überall gilt: Schnelligkeit ist Trumpf. Derzeit verzeichnet die Transport- und Logistikbranche erstmals nach mehreren Jahren überdurchschnittlichen Wachstums stagnierende Umsätze. Dafür sind vor allem die höheren Kosten für Energie, Treibstoff und die Nutzung von Verkehrswegen und auch die gestiegenen Kundenanforderungen verantwortlich. Hier auf unseren Internetseiten für Transport und Logistik finden Sie praxisorientierte Informationen zu Markttrends und technischen Entwicklungen sowie Branchenlösungen von Microsoft Dynamics-Partnern.

Mit Branchenlösungen von Microsoft Dynamics decken Sie die Geschäftsanforderungen Ihres Unternehmens in Transport und Logistik ab. Ihre besonderen Vorteile: Sie erhalten eine maßgeschneiderte Software und profitieren von dem Know-how unserer Partner, die sich auf Ihre Branche spezialisiert haben.

Logistik-Outsourcing mit Logistiksoftware optimieren

Unternehmensübergreifende Zusammenarbeit erforderlich

Outsourcing wird in der Logistik immer wichtiger. In Westeuropa geben die Unternehmen bereits 64 Prozent ihres Logistikbudgets für externe Dienstleister aus. Das zeigt eine aktuelle Studie der Management-Beratung Capgemini und des Georgia Institute of Technology, für die weltweit 1.430 Logistikmanager befragt wurden. Für die nächsten fünf Jahre rechnen die befragten Manager mit weiteren Zuwachsraten von zwölf bis 17 Prozent. Asien liegt jetzt schon mit einer Outsourcing-Quote von 63 Prozent fast gleichauf mit Europa, nur die USA und Lateinamerika liegen mit 48 und 39 Prozent weiter zurück.

Beim Outsourcing von Dienstleistung der Logistik geht es noch vorrangig um klassische Aufgaben: Transport (gesamt 90 Prozent, Westeuropa 95 Prozent), Lagerhaltung (74/76 Prozent) und Zollabfertigung (70/59 Prozent). Höherwertige Dienstleistungen, wie Sendungskonsolidierung, produktnahe Mehrwertleistungen oder auch Rückwärtslogistik, werden seltener nachgefragt. Selbst die deutsche Bundeswehr lagert heute Logistik aus und fliegt beispielsweise ihre Soldaten mit angemieteten Antonow-Flugzeugen zu Auslandseinsätzen.

Insgesamt sind die Unternehmen dabei ziemlich zufrieden mit ihren Dienstleistern, zeigt die Studie von Capgemini. Allerdings stimmt nur die Hälfte der Befragten der Aussage zu, dass ihr Logistiker ihnen neue und innovative Ansätze zur Steigerung der Effektivität bietet. „Zunächst einmal müssen die Logistikunternehmen ihre Hausaufgaben bei den Basisdienstleistungen machen und hohe Qualität zu akzeptablen Preisen liefern“, sagt Dr. Martin Raab, Leiter der Beratungssparte für die Logistikindustrie bei Capgemini. „Die Kür stellen die neuen, höherwertigen Dienstleistungen sowie Innovationen dar.“ Der Preis muss natürlich auch stimmen. Nach Untersuchungen des Bundesverbandes Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und Logistik (BME) existieren beispielsweise in der Luftfracht Preisunterschiede von bis zu 150 Prozent. In der Seefracht sind es sogar 200 Prozent.

Für den allergrößten Teil der von Capgemini befragten Logistikmanager (92 Prozent) gehören bestimmte IT-Standards und adäquate Logistiksoftware zum unbedingten Pflichtprogramm ihrer Dienstleister. Fast zwei Drittel unterziehen ihre Outsourcing-Partner und deren Logistiksoftware sogar einer besonderen IT-Prüfung, bevor sie einen Auftrag vergeben. Im Kontrast dazu steht aber ihre tatsächliche Zufriedenheit mit der IT des Logistikdienstleisters: Lediglich 35 Prozent äußern sich positiv. „Für die Logistikanbieter wird dies zu einem wunden Punkt“, sagt Raab. „Die künftigen Dienstleistungen und die Vernetzung mit Kundensystemen erfordern immer bessere Informationstechnologien. Eine integrierte IT-Plattform wird damit zu einem geschäftskritischen Faktor.“

Das Outsourcing von Logistikdienstleistungen funktioniert also nur dann gut, wenn danach die Prozess- und Bestandskosten niedrig sowie die Lieferzeiten kurz sind und die Liefertreue des Dienstleisters hoch ist. Bei der modernen Logistik geht es darum, kundenorientiert und kostenminimal das richtige Produkt zur richtigen Zeit zum richtigen Preis am richtigen Ort in der richtigen Menge und der richtigen Qualität bereitzustellen. Funktionieren kann dies heute nur noch, wenn die externen Logistikdienstleister eng an ein Unternehmen angebunden sind und die richtigen Daten zum richtigen Zeitpunkt schnell, einfach und zuverlässig ausgetauscht werden. Moderne Unternehmenssteuerungs- und Planungssysteme (Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP) bieten entsprechende Programmmodule und Schnittstellen. Microsoft Dynamics NAV und Microsoft Dynamics AX unterstützen Logistikprozesse und machen auch eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen Dienstleister und Kunden über Unternehmensgrenzen hinweg möglich. Microsoft Dynamics-Partner bieten zudem Branchenlösungen, die auf die besonderen Anforderungen von Logistikunternehmen ausgerichtet sind. Nicht zuletzt ermöglicht Microsoft BizTalk Server die Anbindung von Fremdsystemen für einen nahtlosen Daten- und Informationsaustausch.

Branchenlösungen für Transport und Logistik von Microsoft Dynamics: Referenzen im Überblick

Über 300.000 Kunden weltweit setzen auf Microsoft Dynamics. Mit den Branchenlösungen unserer zertifizierten Partner erhalten Sie ein maßgeschneidertes Komplettpaket, das Ihr Unternehmen in allen branchen- und unternehmensspezifischen Aspekten unterstützt. Hier finden Sie eine Auswahl von Kunden, die von ihren Erfolgen mit Microsoft Dynamics berichten.

Lesen Sie in den Referenzen, wie eine Branchenlösung zentrale Geschäftsprozesse optimieren und automatisieren kann und wie unsere Kunden vom Branchen-Know-how unserer Partner profitieren.

Referenzen in Transport und Logistik

Bantleon GmbH
Produkte: Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Partner: SIEVERS-SNC
Das mittelständische Mineralölunternehmen Hermann Bantleon GmbH hat sich in den letzten Jahren immer mehr vom Handelsunternehmen zum Systemanbieter und Logistikdienstleister entwickelt.
„Mit der Lagerlösung SNC/Logistics haben wir unsere Erwartungen und die unserer Kunden an mehr Flexibilität und Transparenz in der Auftragsabwicklung nicht nur erfüllt, sondern weit übertroffen.“ Heiner Krähling, IT-Leiter bei der Hermann Bantleon GmbH

Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG
Produkte: Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Partner: PRIM Management Consult GmbH
Die Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG ist 1992 aus der Fusion der Häfen Köln GmbH, der Köln-Bonner Eisenbahnen AG und der Köln-Frechen-Benzelrather Eisenbahn entstanden.
„Das Zusammenspiel zwischen Dynamics CRM und Outlook hat uns am besten gefallen. Die vielen gemeinsamen Abläufe halten den Einarbeitungsaufwand gering.“ Heinz Vitus, IT-Leiter, Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG

SCHMIDT-Gruppe
Produkte: Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Partner: SIEVERS-SNC
Die SCHMIDT- Gruppe zählt mit über 800 Mitarbeitern, 28 Niederlassungen in 9 Ländern, 800 Fahrzeugen, 1.110 Lagersilos, 111.500m² Lagerhallen und über 3.000 Containern zu Europas größten Logistikdienstleistern im Schüttgutbereich.
„Unsere Kunden sind begeistern, wie sicher, schnell und problemlos wir heute Prozessinformationen liefern – und das 24 Stunden am Tag ohne zusätzlichen Personaleinsatz.“ Michael Pütz, Niederlassungsleiter in Köln-Niehl

4Wheels Service + Logistik GmbH
Produkte: Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Partner: SIEVERS-SNC
4Wheels Service + Logistik GmbH lagert bundesweit Sommer- und Winterreifen in 50 Niederlassungen ein. Der Service ist als Dienstleistung für Werkstätten und Autohäuser konzipiert, die für Privathaushalte und Firmen Räder wechseln.
„Im Vergleich zu einer Inhouselösung sparen wir rund 15 bis 20 Prozent der Gesamtkosten. Die gewonnene Liquidität investieren wir in unser Kerngeschäft.“ Robin Vogl, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter, 4Wheels Service + Logistik GmbH

REISSWOLF Köln GmbH
Produkte: Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Partner: tegos gmbh dortmund
Seit der Einführung der Branchenlösung mit Microsoft Dynamics NAV wissen die Mitarbeiter der REISSWOLF Köln GmbH jederzeit, wo sich die Fahrzeuge befinden. Die Zuladung wird bei der Abholung übermittelt, die Nacherfassung entfällt.

Truck24 AG
Produkte: Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Partner: k.section business solutions gmbh
Mit Microsoft Dynamics CRM ist es gelungen, die ungeordnete Abstimmung per E-Mail in strukturierte Prozesse zu überführen.
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Blue Sun - Microsoft Dynamics NAV customer stories

A provider of alternative fuels from sustainable resources, Blue Sun has built a strong reputation for product excellence. To manage the company most efficiently in a challenging business climate and to prepare to capitalize on the promise of its Blue Sun Fusion brand following a recovery, Blue Sun implemented Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The solution provides company managers with the meaningful insight they need to move the business forward. It also facilitates with ease the many types of reporting Blue Sun requires to demonstrate regulatory compliance, drive financial performance, nurture strategic relationships, and maintain high levels of individual and organizational productivity. By using Microsoft Dynamics NAV, the company has added customers and distribution channels without increasing overhead and is poised to realize significantly enhanced growth as the clean-tech market rebounds.


With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, we’ve become an extremely efficient, lean operation. We know it also has the flexibility to scale to the substantial growth we are preparing for today.


Jerry Washburn, Senior Vice President and CFO, Blue Sun

Situation
With headquarters in Golden, Colorado, Blue Sun markets a product family of alternative fuels under the brand of Blue Sun Fusion. Founded in 2001 with the goal of developing the best possible biodiesel fuel, Blue Sun went to market in early 2005 after extensive research and development efforts. Blue Sun Fusion products offer a variety of blends of traditional diesel with fuel from renewable sources, which are proprietary oilseed crops. The company quickly garnered an outstanding reputation as a provider of renewable-source fuel products of a significantly higher quality than traditional diesel fuels.

Blue Sun operates a fuel distribution network with sophisticated, high-volume ration-blending terminals, from which trains and trucks can transport Blue Sun Fusion products to almost any location in North America. Today, Blue Sun Fusion fuels are available mostly in the Mountain West region of the United States and neighboring areas, including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Blue Sun’s main business groups engage with the supply chain to procure raw oil feed stocks, which a contract refinery refines into biodiesel; make these fuels available to the Blue Sun Fusion product offering or resell them domestically and internationally; and market the Blue Sun Fusion brand.

With the economic downturn, companies in the alternative-fuel industry have faced severe challenges to their business viability and made far-ranging adjustments to remain competitive. An embargo by the European Union on biodiesel from the United States added to the urgency of doing so. Of 17 alternative-fuel companies that venture capitalists or private equity groups funded from 2005 to 2007, only Blue Sun and one other organization are still in business. Blue Sun today maintains a small, efficient team and pursues strategic partnerships with large petroleum companies to jointly market the Blue Sun Fusion brand and products.

To ready the company to weather a recessionary economy and capitalize on newly emerging opportunities for growth, Blue Sun decided to make more strategic use of software technology. As Jerry Washburn, Senior Vice President and CFO at Blue Sun, explains, “Our employees would create stand-alone spreadsheets to track and reconcile financial and other business data, which was a labor-intensive practice. The accuracy of the results was often questionable and rarely provided the meaningful insight into the business that managers needed.”

In addition, Blue Sun’s needs outgrew the capabilities of the Sage Peachtree accounting software that the company used. Specifically, Blue Sun sought a complete enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that included:

- Dimensional accounting to accommodate multiple departments and divisions without being compelled to handle them through the general ledger.
- Cost center and profit center accounting.
- Commodity tracking.
- Tax credit tracking and handling.
- Intercompany transaction posting, elimination, and consolidation.
- Compliance and financial reporting.
- Process-manufacturing management functionality.

In 2007 ... we used Microsoft Dynamics NAV to boost individual and organizational productivity and doubled our revenue, adding new customers and distribution channels, without hiring more staff.


Jerry Washburn, Senior Vice President and CFO, Blue Sun

Solution
Washburn knew of Radiant Technologies, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with a strong concentration on clean-tech industries and deep expertise in using technology to achieve environmental benefits. Radiant Technologies is headquartered in San Diego, California, close to many alternative-energy and sustainability-focused organizations. The company also has offices in Denmark and Singapore. Within the company’s technology portfolio, Microsoft Dynamics NAV plays an especially prominent role.

Michael Anderson, CEO of Radiant Technologies, highlights the reasons why the company feels so strongly about Microsoft Dynamics NAV: “Clean-tech and other environmentally directed companies often run many different phases of business operations—from startup and research and development to commercial distribution—within a very short time. Some of these companies follow nontraditional business models that may have little precedent. Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a great fit for such organizations because it offers a flexible programming environment and extensible software tools that we can use with great efficiency to create business management infrastructures that help companies to innovate and grow.”

Blue Sun had set a short timeline to get the new business management solution running and wanted to get started using the solution without making any changes to its hardware and network configurations. To start, Radiant Technologies deployed Microsoft Dynamics NAV as a hosted solution to save Blue Sun the costs of an on-premises solution and the expenses and reconfiguration effort related to hardware changes. The entire implementation, including some customization to support process-manufacturing and fuel-blending operations, took less than 90 days. Later, Blue Sun streamlined its hardware environment and brought Microsoft Dynamics NAV in-house. However, Washburn anticipates that growth during the coming years will bring the company to a point when a hosted solution again makes more sense for the business.

Today, Blue Sun uses Microsoft Dynamics NAV primarily for financial and compliance reporting. All business and financial data reside within the solution. By using Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Blue Sun employees perform order processing, general-ledger consolidation, accounts payable and accounts receivable tasks, inventory cost management, and extensive reporting. To help generate the reports in the precise formats Blue Sun managers want, the solution integrates with Jet Reports. And, employees at Blue Sun no longer use stand-alone spreadsheets or other insular reporting functions.

Radiant Technologies enriches Microsoft Dynamics NAV with graphically rich, intuitive, highly action reports on business results.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV connects with an off-site payroll system facilitated by Ceridian, sending and receiving payroll details. And to ease tax reporting, the solution links with the tax management systems of several states where the company does business, automatically populating state tax–reporting forms with business data. In the near future, Blue Sun plans to link the solution with its human resource records, which Ceridian also manages, and connect it with a Concur travel and expense management system. Manufacturing and distribution operations will come online with Microsoft Dynamics NAV as demand grows. Eventually, when the company develops more established strategic relationships with distribution and marketing partners, the solution will support collaboration with these partners and provide them with access to business information.

Benefits
Having successfully weathered a challenging economic downturn, Blue Sun is preparing to grow market share and revenue as proven providers of clean and sustainable technologies to garner increased attention. “Microsoft Dynamics NAV is smoothly fine-tuned to the specific requirements of our business,” says Washburn. “It facilitates all the reporting and management tasks we need to perform today and will serve as the core of our business infrastructure in the years to come.”

Reliable, complete business information from Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps us increase our visibility and communicate the unique value of our brand and products to partners, investors, and the public.


Jerry Washburn, Senior Vice President and CFO, Blue Sun

Meaningful Business Insight and Compelling Visibility
Today, Blue Sun owns a single, centralized repository for all business information and has discarded the isolated spreadsheets and other informal information management tools that it previously used. Says Washburn, “Blue Sun enjoys the ability to easily generate all the reports it needs to demonstrate regulatory compliance, help the board and business managers to make sound decisions based on real-time business insight, and make a compelling business case to potential strategic partners.” Washburn and other executives can also review the company’s financial events and trends in the form of highly intuitive dashboards that make it possible to absorb information quickly.

For a company that is successfully emerging from a global recession and is pursuing a larger share of the market when other clean-tech competitors may be struggling, the ability to use data as business evidence is critical. Explains Washburn, “Reliable, complete business information from Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps us increase our visibility and communicate the unique value of our brand and products to partners, investors, and the public.”

Strategic Focus with Low Technology Ownership Cost
With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Blue Sun operates with great efficiency and keeps costs under close control. “In 2007, for example, we used Microsoft Dynamics NAV to boost individual and organizational productivity and doubled our revenue, adding new customers and distribution channels, without hiring more staff,” says Washburn. “Consolidating management processes on a single, integrated solution makes a big difference in keeping our overhead low.”

Blue Sun expects to further minimize its cost of technology ownership when Microsoft Dynamics NAV will again become a hosted solution, which is what Blue Sun expects to happen as it looks to support sustained growth facilitated by the most efficient and economical use of resources. As Washburn states, “I believe software as a service has excellent potential for us, with an optimal combination of best economy and flexible technology. We will be able to generate substantial savings simply by eliminating much of our hardware and service contracts.”

Scalable to Support Clean-Tech Resurgence

Role Centers in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, fine-tuned by Radiant Technologies, help

business managers find exactly the data and functions they require most in their jobs.



Given changing economic trends and the current administration’s emphasis on renewable energy, Blue Sun expects increasing interest in its Blue Sun Fusion biodiesel products along with stronger growth for the entire clean-tech industry. The company already takes advantage of the technology to thrive through shifting business requirements. “With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, we’ve become an extremely efficient, lean operation,” says Washburn. “We know it also has the flexibility to scale to the substantial growth we are preparing for today.”

For Blue Sun, that renewed growth is likely to include international expansion, which means the company will be able to take full advantage of the multilanguage, multicurrency, and multisite capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. As growth accelerates and the Blue Sun Fusion brand becomes more broadly available and appreciated by consumers, the solution’s business intelligence and reporting capabilities will continue to play a critical role in executives’ ability to take the company in the right direction.
 
Solution Overview


Organization Profile
Blue Sun, a clean-tech innovator with a strong reputation for product excellence, markets a family of biodiesel fuels from sustainable resources under its Blue Sun Fusion brand.

Business Situation
The company wanted to strengthen its viability through the challenges of an economic downturn, increase management control over the business, and prepare itself for renewed growth.

Solution
Blue Sun implemented Microsoft Dynamics NAV to manage finance, provide reporting and business insight, and progressively support all aspects of the operation.

Benefits
Meaningful business insight and compelling visibility
Strategic focus with low technology ownership cost
Scalable to support clean-tech resurgence

Partner(s)
Radiant Technologies

Software and Services
Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Vertical Industries
Oil Refining Industry

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Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Saving Manufacturers Time and

Are you looking to streamline your manufacturing operations and increase efficiencies across material requirements planning (MRP) processes such as sales processing, production scheduling, change management, quality assurance, and capacity requirements planning? Would you like to have your manufacturing systems integrated with Microsoft Dynamics GP? Attend this webcast to learn how an integrated Microsoft Dynamics GP manufacturing software suite can help you save time and money.

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Discover ERP and CRM software your people can actually use

Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM software works like and with Microsoft software you already use. So your people can adopt it quickly and work efficiently. Watch this video and see what your business can be like when everyone gets it.

Manufacturer sets course for future with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Learn how adhesives manufacturer, Crespel & Deiters GmbH & Co. KG, implemented Microsoft Dynamics NAV to make operations more efficient and simplify its IT environment, which previously comprised several disjointed systems.

Manufacturer sets course for future with Microsoft Dynamics NAV


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Microsoft Dynamics für die IT - Aufgabenbereich IT-Abteilung ERP Software

Aufgabenbereich IT: Vereinfachen Sie die Installation, Konfiguration und Wartung Ihrer Unternehmenssoftware mit Microsoft Dynamics
In der IT müssen Sie neue Systeme schnell implementieren und integrieren können und den laufenden Betrieb gewährleisten. Bauen Sie auf eine standardisierte Plattform und nehmen Sie Ihren Mitarbeitern künftig die Sorgen über Ausfallzeiten oder Störungen ab. Microsoft Dynamics® fügt sich problemlos in Ihre IT-Systemlandschaft ein und lässt sich mit vertrauten Standardwerkzeugen warten. Der aufgabenspezifische Zugang sorgt außerdem dafür, dass jeder IT-Mitarbeiter direkt auf alle benötigten Funktionen zugreifen und Probleme einfach identifizieren kann.

Im Fokus

Microsoft Dynamics für die IT

Die folgende Übersicht liefert Ihnen Beispiele für die Funktionen und Aufgaben in der IT, die Sie je nach Bedarf in die individuelle Benutzeroberfläche für Ihre Mitarbeiter aufnehmen können:

Geben Sie den richtigen Mitarbeitern Zugriff auf die richtigen Informationen

- Zentrale Steuerung der individuellen Arbeitsbereiche von IT-Mitarbeitern, um die richtigen Zugriffsrechte zu vergeben

- Dokumentation von Ausnahmen und vorgenommenen Änderungen am Zugriffssystem

- Echtzeitzugriff auf alle benötigten Daten auch mit mobilen Endgeräten oder über Onlineportale

- Funktionen für die einfache Ad-hoc-Berichterstellung durch jeden Anwender, sodass Ihre IT-Mitarbeiter von Reportingprozessen entlastet werden

Sorgen Sie für ein reibungsloses Zusammenspiel Ihrer Systeme

- Funktionen für die optimale Ausnutzung aller Ressourcen und einfaches Load Balancing

- Zentrale Steuerung aller Verknüpfungen, sodass Daten systemübergreifend zur Verfügung stehen und keine fehleranfällige Mehrfacherfassung mehr nötig ist

- Einfache Anbindung von älteren Systemen und anderen Datenbanken

- Nahtlose Integration in das Microsoft Office-System

- Anbindung an die Microsoft®-Serverprodukte, z. B. SQL Server für maximalen Schutz Ihrer Daten und umfassende Auswertungen (Reporting Services und Analysis Services für Business Intelligence) oder BizTalk Server und SharePoint (automatischer Daten- bzw. Dokumentenaustausch)

Nutzen Sie Standardwerkzeuge für die Implementierung und Wartung

- Zugriff auf praxiserprobte Methoden und umfassende Dokumentation für erfolgreiche Installation, Konfiguration, Migration und Upgrades Ihrer Unternehmenssoftware

- Standardset von Werkzeugen und Vorlagen

- Dokumentationswerkzeuge zur Wiederverwendung von bereits aufgebautem Know-how zu Microsoft-Technologien im Unternehmen

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Industrial Machinery Group Cuts Costs by 15% with Microsoft Dynamics AX

Industrial Machinery Group Cuts Costs by 15% with Microsoft Dynamics AX

Faced with the global economic downturn, the company decided to reengineer its processes to achieve a more integrated supply chain and support diversification into other manufacturing sectors. By deploying Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, Picanol no longer requires other proprietary software to manage its operations in Asia, Western Europe, and the United States.



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Reduce IT costs with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Take charge of IT spending from implementation onward

From implementation onward, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can require a significant IT investment. However, Microsoft Dynamics NAV offers a lower total cost of ownership than many ERP systems, helping you to control and reduce IT cost. Here’s how:

Streamline implementation. Help ensure an efficient, consistent deployment of Microsoft Dynamics NAV by using the Rapid Implementation Methodology, part of Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step, a standardized, global methodology and suite of tools that simplifies and speeds implementation and upgrade processes.

Simplify training. Microsoft Dynamics NAV works with and like the other Microsoft products and technologies your people are already familiar with, helping to reduce training time and increase adoption. And with the RoleTailored user interface of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, your people are provided with only the tools and functionality they need based on their role, helping them get up to speed even faster.

Ease customization. Microsoft Dynamics NAV is compatible with the .NET Framework, making it easier to integrate with or build other .NET applications. And with Web services, developers and Microsoft partners can simplify the effort to connect Microsoft Dynamics NAV with existing IT systems—even across multiple sites.

Simplify and streamline common IT tasks. Microsoft Dynamics NAV enables you to bring self-service reporting and other functionality to the end user, freeing your IT staff for higher-value tasks. At the same time, the solution makes a range of IT tasks even easier.

Integrate with Microsoft products and technologies. By integrating tightly with other Microsoft products and technologies, Microsoft Dynamics NAV can help you get the most out of your IT assets. Microsoft Dynamics NAV integrates with the Microsoft Office system, Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006.

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Microsoft Dynamics - ERP-MRP

Microsoft Dynamics enables confident decision-making

Business needs change. To initiate and respond to these changes, you need an integrated business management solution that provides a comprehensive, real-time view of critical information. Microsoft Dynamics provides the information you need, allowing you to effectively address the evolving demands of your business. Here are some of the ways Microsoft Dynamics can help you make informed decisions that you feel confident about and help your business thrive.

Empower your people to do their jobs

Give your people the information they need to do their jobs. RoleTailored information empowers your staff to quickly access the specific information they need perform their daily duties and to make changes that affect the broader organization.

Reduce the learning curve. Microsoft Dynamics integrates with familiar software, such as Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Excel. This enables your staff to build on the skills they already have.

Gain business insight with access to relevant, mission-critical information

Align with business goals. Key performance indicators (KPIs) help you analyze specific projects and tasks against the high-level business goal. When you're off course, business alerts help you stay on track.

Increase reporting capabilities. By integrating with Microsoft SQL Server you gain optimal access to business intelligence information. You can generate reports with SQL Server Reporting Services, build and analyze data warehouses, and organize and use data efficiently.

Control access to sensitive information. Managers grant permissions to help ensure that specific information is available only to those who need it.

Enhance decision-making. By gaining business critical insight across the organization, you can access and analyze the business critical information to help you make informed decisions and affect change quickly.

Comply with regulations

Implement consistent, structured processes. Microsoft Dynamics can help you put these processes in place. This helps to guarantee accountability and reliability throughout your organization.

Help ensure the integrity of your processes. Microsoft Dynamics can help ensure the integrity of your information and communications, and keep the right stakeholders informed—all in a timely manner.

 

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Fuel business productivity with Microsoft Dynamics

Fuel business productivity with Microsoft Dynamics

Take your people and processes to the next level of performance
Microsoft Dynamics for business management promotes a people-focused approach to productivity. By empowering your people to accomplish their best, you can heighten the productivity of collaborating teams, workflows and processes, key relationships with suppliers and customers, and technology—across your organization.

Capitalize on productivity opportunities
Microsoft Dynamics business management solutions can provide an infrastructure to help you reach your specific productivity goals. The technology can follow your vision. Important Microsoft Dynamics capabilities include helpful automation, actionable information, and effective collaboration. For example, you can:

Automate business processes. Reduce the cost of doing business by helping your people concentrate more on productive tasks and less on repetitive busywork. From the first sales conversation through manufacturing, shipping, and servicing, automation helps streamline your entire business and move processes along productively and economically.

Use technology to get accurate information. Set the best course of action. And act on it. Reporting and business analysis tools help your people gain a deep understanding of business performance, customer preferences, and market trends. Executives can receive business performance, financial, and competitive intelligence. Line-of-business directors can assess and drive departmental productivity and operational efficiency. And employees can manage business areas within their responsibility equipped with all the information and capabilities they need.

Enrich teams within the company. Employee portals and team sites help people to work together productively across the organization, no matter where they are. Customers and business partners can engage with your company in mutually beneficial, collaborative relationships. Employees, vendors, and customers gain direct access to the information, documents, and capabilities they need. And executives and business managers can access performance metrics and analytical reports and work together to set strategy.

Implement technology that works the way your people do
Microsoft and its partners work with you to help ensure that you generate the productivity benefits you are striving for from a business management solution.

Put people at the center of business processes. Microsoft Dynamics works with and like the software your people use every day. Each team member can adjust preferences, views, and report types. And RoleTailored access to intranet employee portals helps everyone in your organization get to mission-critical tasks first and keep sensitive information protected.

Increase productivity. Microsoft Dynamics solutions work like and with other Microsoft technologies you might already use in your business. With the low support requirements and easy user adoption of Microsoft Dynamics solutions, your IT team can play a more strategic role in advancing your business interests.

Get industry-specific functionality. Microsoft partners provide industry-specific customizations that help boost the value of Microsoft Dynamics with their own software products. Microsoft is committed to giving partners everything they need to help you gain the full benefits potential from Microsoft Dynamics software and other Microsoft products and technologies.

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Compare Oracle with Microsoft Dynamics

Three reasons to switch from Oracle to Microsoft Dynamics

Making the decision to change your company's business management system is a process that requires research and foresight. Here are three top reasons why businesses using Oracle applications, including PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and E-Business Suite solutions, have decided to make the switch to Microsoft Dynamics.

Microsoft Dynamics can scale with your business. Microsoft Dynamics provides affordable scalability for your growing businesses. With benchmarked performance up to 1,000 users and beyond and rich functionality across financials, supply chain management, and customer relationship management, you can be confident in the ability of Microsoft Dynamics to meet the needs of your growing business. Integrate your Microsoft Dynamics business management solution with Microsoft SQL Server and enjoy enterprise-level reporting, flexible decision-making support, and timely, relevant business insight at a low cost with significantly high usability and flexibility.

Microsoft Dynamics provides a low cost of ownership. Microsoft Dynamics is engineered to cost-effectively support the changing requirements that are frequently necessary for customers to adapt, grow, and maintain a competitive edge in their business. Independent research has demonstrated that, on the whole, Microsoft Dynamics offers a higher return on investment (ROI) and lower overall costs than other major competitive offerings. Microsoft Dynamics licensing is designed to be cost-effective. It is based on concurrent users versus named users and has no imposed user minimum or maximum, so it evolves with you for the life of your business.

Microsoft offers an industry-leading vertical partner ecosystem. Microsoft is in a position to deliver vertical solutions to hundreds of different industries on a local basis; it can bring these solutions to market on a local level. Microsoft's Certified for Microsoft Dynamics program offers solutions designed to meet the needs of specific industries. It can provide customers with the benefits of a rich portfolio of tested, reference supported solutions developed by ISVs that have met Microsoft’s highest solution and organizational certification standards.

Customer evidence: Learn how switching to Microsoft Dynamics benefited other companies

See how companies using Oracle products solved real business problems and benefited from switching to Microsoft Dynamics.

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Network solutions leader projects $1.5 million savings with switch to Microsoft Dynamics

Based in Fremont, California, Network Equipment Technologies (NET) develops, distributes, and supports voice and data communications equipment for multiservice networks. Because the company’s Oracle system did not enable flexible product configuration, NET maintained as many as 37,000 derivative part numbers in its system. In 2006, NET decided to implement Microsoft Dynamics instead of upgrading its Oracle ERP system. Using the built-in product configuration capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics, NET reduced the number of parts in its system by more than 85 percent. The company anticipates a total estimated savings of U.S.$1.5 million in the first year.

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Floral goods manufacturer gains time-saving insight with business software

Established in 1946, family-owned Syndicate Sales leads the floral hard goods industry. Syndicate Sales had used JD Edwards from Oracle, but found that employees relied heavily on IT staff to generate routine reports and extract information in response to queries. After evaluating a number of alternatives, Syndicate Sales chose to switch to Microsoft Dynamics. Now employees quickly and easily access the business information that they need, and have confidence that their information is accurate and up to date.

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Tactical gear maker meets growth demands with business management solution

BlackHawk Products Group, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, produces high-end military, law enforcement, and outdoor gear products. Struggling to keep track of inventory and manufacturing costs with their existing system, BlackHawk decided it needed a more robust business management solution. After evaluating SAP and Oracle, the company chose to implement Microsoft Dynamics due to the flexibility and low cost of ownership.

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Branded drug maker solves complex budgeting and reporting challenges—affordably

Teva Neuroscience Inc. needed to upgrade to a new system that could handle a greater volume of transactions through a short accounting cycle. After opening a branch in Montreal, Canada, the Kansas City, Missouri-based company also needed a more complete business management solution to meet its increasingly complex reporting needs, as well as a system that made it simple to drill down into financial data for better budgeting and forecasting. After testing Microsoft Dynamics in its business environment, Teva found it made little economic sense to deploy Oracle when a less complex, more affordable solution met its needs.

Questions to ask when evaluating an Oracle solution

- What does a typical Oracle support team look like? How many administrators are there? How many developers? How many support personnel?

- Does your proposal include the use of an Oracle Accelerator for streamlined implementation? What specifics actually govern this offer? How will the cost and time of implementation be affected if I want the solution modified to meet my unique business practices?

- Will I have to conform my business to match Oracle's ideas of how to run a business in order to get the benefits of the rapid implementation? How am I able to realize a competitive edge in my business processes if I am just taking what is given?

- Do I have to license named users instead of concurrent users or user sessions? What is the difference, and what do you see as the pros and cons of each?

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Compare SAP with Microsoft Dynamics

Compare SAP with Microsoft Dynamics

Four reasons to switch from SAP to Microsoft Dynamics

Making the decision to change your company's business management system is a process that requires research and foresight. Here are four reasons why businesses using SAP business management products have decided to make the switch to Microsoft Dynamics.

Microsoft Dynamics can improve employee productivity. In a 2007 analysis that compared the impact of enterprise software applications on people's productivity, Microsoft Dynamics users on average scored Microsoft Dynamics 18 percent higher than SAP users scored SAP applications. This Microsoft-sponsored study was conducted by Keystone Strategy, an independent research firm, and was supervised by Dr. Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Download the full study (XPS 3.96).

Microsoft Dynamics can scale with your business. Microsoft Dynamics provides affordable scalability for your growing businesses. With benchmarked performance up to 1,000 users and beyond and rich functionality across financials, supply chain management, and customer relationship management, you can be confident in the ability of Microsoft Dynamics to meet the needs of your growing business. Integrate your Microsoft Dynamics business management solution with Microsoft SQL Server to enjoy enterprise-level reporting, flexible decision-making support, and timely, relevant business insight at a low cost with significantly high usability and flexibility.

Microsoft Dynamics provides a low cost of ownership. Microsoft Dynamics is engineered to cost-effectively support the changing requirements that are frequently necessary for customers to adapt, grow, and maintain a competitive edge in their business. Independent research has demonstrated that, on the whole, Microsoft Dynamics offers a higher return on investment (ROI) and lower overall costs than other major competitive offerings. Microsoft Dynamics licensing is designed to be cost-effective. It is based on concurrent users versus named users and has no imposed user minimum or maximum, so it evolves with you for the life of your business.

Microsoft offers an industry-leading vertical partner ecosystem. Microsoft is in a position to deliver vertical solutions to hundreds of different industries on a local basis; it can bring these solutions to market on a local level. Microsoft's Certified for Microsoft Dynamics program offers solutions designed to meet the needs of specific industries. It can provide customers with the benefits of a rich portfolio of tested, reference supported solutions developed by ISVs that have met Microsoft’s highest solution and organizational certification standards.

Customer evidence: Learn how switching to Microsoft Dynamics benefited other companies

See how companies have solved real business problems and benefited from choosing Microsoft Dynamics over SAP products.

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Leading industrial-equipment manufacturer manages growth with flexible ERP system

Wheelabrator Group is one of the world’s largest and most established manufacturers of surface preparation equipment and technologies. As the company grew, so did the complexity of its operations. Wheelabrator needed a solution that offered built-in project-management capabilities for manufacturing, integration with existing line-of-business and industry-specific systems, and cost-effective customizations to meet complex process–flow requirements and future growth needs. The company chose Microsoft Dynamics over SAP and Infor, and has benefited from improved visibility into project costs and increased operational efficiency.

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Global market research firm uses flexible ERP system to standardize data, plan growth

GfK Aktiengesellschaft is one of the world’s largest market research firms. As it grew, GfK found it increasingly difficult to standardize financial reporting across its global network. Subsidiaries could not easily roll up local reporting into the individual GfK Reporting Systems and the corporate SAP-based system. Instead of implementing a more costly, less flexible solution in its subsidiaries, the company chose to use Microsoft Dynamics, which integrated with the SAP system used at corporate headquarters, yet saved the company approximately U.S.$600,000 as compared to SAP.

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Energy broker increases reporting and decision-making abilities

Texas-based Choice Energy LP is a leading independent energy brokerage firm in the United States, offering customers, such as corporations and utilities, market liquidity and price discovery. The company quickly outgrew its mostly manual accounting system, so it teamed up with the NexTec Group, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, to implement Microsoft Dynamics. In just weeks, they had a customized solution that helped Choice Energy LP move from quarterly financial reporting to monthly financial reporting. Their customized solution includes monthly detail-rich reports that offer increased insight into broker activity and that allow agile decision-making by the company.

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway runs multiple lines of business on integrated business solution

World-famous for the Indianapolis 500, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a renowned racetrack in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Speedway depends heavily on technology to run its various business systems, from ticketing to concessions. The Speedway implemented Microsoft Dynamics along with Microsoft DynamicsCRM. Now, the Speedway has streamlined its accounting and reporting processes and can provide better customer service and accountability. The Speedway's parent organization has also standardized on Microsoft Dynamics, choosing the Microsoft solution over SAP.

Questions to ask when evaluating an SAP solution

If you are considering the SAP Business Suite or SAP Business All-in-One:

- SAP may offer a fixed-price, fixed-scope implementation of SAP Business All-in-One. What specifics actually govern this offer?

- Do I have to license named users instead of concurrent users or user sessions? What is the difference, and what do you see as the pros and cons of each?

- Is NetWeaver middleware required for integration with SAP and non-SAP systems?

- How many support personnel?

If you are considering SAP Business One:

- What is SAP's future solution roadmap for Business One? Can you provide documentation supporting that?

- How does Business One fit into SAP's Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture? To what degree is Business One included in the development plans for SAP NetWeaver and Duet?

- How many users can Business One reasonably scale to? How many references can you provide of existing SAP Business One users of my size?

- What are my choices if I outgrow Business One? Can you provide details on the cost and steps to migrate to SAP Business All-in-One or Business ByDesign?

- How much of the functionality being demonstrated is native, "out-of-the-box" functionality versus functionality developed by a partner or through a third-party developer? How will this add-on functionality affect upgrades?

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