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ERP CASE STUDY

HANSENS PIPELINE TOHANSENS PIPELINE TO

THE WORLDTHE WORLD

Dr Gunmala Suri

University Business School

Panjab University, Chandigarh.


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COMPANY DETAILS

HANSEN PRODUCTS

Whangarei based Leading manufacturer of polythene pipefittings, threaded pipe fittings and high flow foot and check

valves.

More than 500 finished products under the HANSEN brand

Strong export focus with established exclusive distribution in

eight countries

Growing presence in Canadian Market with plans to double

its output over the next 2 yrs.


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NEED RECOGNITIONManage its production planning and scheduling,

Hansen had been using a 9 yr old financial system in

conjunction with multiple disparate spreadsheets.

Company had outgrown this accounting solution

Lack of integration with the manufacturing system

caused the duplication of information.

Lot of data had to be manually entered into various

spread sheets.

Previous solution had several constraints in handling

export documentation and multi currency

requirements.


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REQUIREMENT

System that could cope with the production

scheduling and be integrated with financials

As the expansion of Canadian market is on the way,

to have strong business processes in place and be able

to plan adequately, particularly with the long

distribution time to canada.


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EVALUATION OF

ALTERNATIVESAfter evaluation of 7 potential applications, the

company short listed 3 and examined their

functionality in more depth.

The company ultimately chose Microsoft BusinessSolutions Axapta.

Based on the products strength within manufacturing.

Being an international product and that was still at thebeginning of its life cycle.

Also, had confidence in Adaptable solutions as their MD

had extensive experience in implementing IT systems withinmanufacturin industr .


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IMPLEMENTATIONDedicated project team comprised of the MD of Hansen,

people from Network Management (outsourced ITinfrastructure partner) and the MD of Adaptable Solutions

FIRST PHASE : rolling out the financial and inventory

modules implemented by 1Jan 2003

SECOND PHASE : manufacturing functionality went live 2

months later in March 03 in order to ensure that staff were

adequately trained

Flexible customisation tools offered within Axapta enable

Adaptable Solutions to easily customise parts of the system to

ensure that the company maximised the products benefits.

Took few minor modifications to fine tune the system to meet

the exact needs


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BENEFITSAxapta synchronises the financials, manufacturing, inventory and

forecasting, therefore time saving as avoids duplication.Axapta automatically generates an email to the customer to

acknowledge their order when it is received, and another when it is

dispatched.

It tells the customers which carrier will deliver the goods, exactly whenit will arrive and what product is back ordered.

Axapta also has the ability to forecast the business.

Created significant efficiencies with manufacturing processes and

operational efficiencies with better information processing.Delivering tighter production planning and improving the entire

scheduling

Successfully managing continued expansion in Canadian Markets

Staff has been freed from keying in data and focus on important issues.


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BENEFITS contd..Far more efficient now with better inventory

management.

Improved purchasing as the system tells when to

purchase, what and how much.

Financial management too has improvedEmails of financial statements like invoices are sent to

distributors anytime rather than being constrained by dates.

Currency conversion happens automatically


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