Antenova Amplifies Connections and Improves Operations with Acumatica
Customer Company Size
Mid-size Company
Region
- America
- Asia
- Europe
Country
- Canada
- China
- Taiwan
- United Kingdom
- United States
Product
- Acumatica Financial Management
- Acumatica Distribution Management
- Acumatica Intercompany Module
- Acumatica Fixed Assets
Tech Stack
- Acumatica ERP
- Sugar CRM
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Customer Satisfaction
- Digital Expertise
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Supply Chain Visibility
- Inventory Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Antenova is a multinational company headquartered in Hertfordshire, UK, with manufacturing, design, and technical operations in Taipei. The company also has sales and additional support offices in Santa Rosa, CA, Ottawa, Canada, and Shanghai, China. Antenova operates in the high-tech manufacturing industry, specifically in the production of high-performing standard antennas and RF antenna modules for wireless machine-to-machine, IoT, and consumer electronic devices. The company was previously using two separate systems for its operations: Sage50 for finance and Orderwise for purchase orders, sales, and warehouse management. However, the company decided to invest in an integrated ERP system to improve the efficiency of its operations and provide detailed business intelligence to its executive managers.
The Challenge
Antenova, a multinational company that manufactures high-performing standard antennas and RF antenna modules, was previously operating with two separate systems: Sage50 for finance and Orderwise for purchase orders, sales, and warehouse management. This setup posed challenges as the two systems did not work together, leading to manual data input from one system to the other. Some reports also had to be constructed in MS Excel to get the desired information. As the company grew and the IoT market expanded, Antenova needed to keep pace by renewing its website and digital marketing tools. This led to the need for a cloud-based ERP system that would enable Antenova to grow efficiently to meet these challenges.
The Solution
Antenova enlisted the help of systems partner YJ Jiang of Lumina Technology Co., Ltd., to evaluate newer Sage and other software packages. The company chose Acumatica's cloud-based ERP system due to its unlimited user pricing, ease-of-use, multicurrencies, and highly integrated functionality. The Acumatica solution included Financial Management, Distribution Management, Intercompany Module, and Fixed Assets. This new system allowed Antenova's teams to operate as if they were in the same office, with employees throughout the world gaining real-time access to the financial and warehouse systems. Executives also had instant access to the company's current financial status, which was previously only available when data was transferred from one system to the other, a slow and error-prone manual process.
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