QesTec Gets Quicker With Sage 100 ERP
Customer Company Size
SME
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Sage 100 Advanced ERP
- Sage ACT!
- Sage Fixed Assets
- Visual Integrator
- Business Alerts
Tech Stack
- Windows NT
- SAP Crystal Reports
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
- Manufacturing System Automation
Services
- System Integration
- Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
QesTec, Inc. is a company that provides computer options such as upgrades for servers, workstations, personal computers, laptops, notebooks, and printers. The company prides itself on offering innovative, practical, and top-quality products, designed to be easily accessible and competitively priced. In addition to its own compatible memory products, QesTec currently supports many of the industry’s most prominent product lines including Digital/Compaq enterprise and storage options, Kingston Technologies compatible memory products, and Sun Microsystems server and storage options. The company is located in Auburn, Massachusetts and has three locations. It employs 20 people.
The Challenge
QesTec, a provider of computer options such as upgrades for servers, workstations, personal computers, laptops, notebooks, and printers, was experiencing booming demand for its high-tech products. This led to a situation where the business was doubling every year, and the company’s computer system simply couldn’t keep up with it. Inventory was turning at least 25 times a year. The time had come to replace standalone PCs with a robust network, including software that would provide manufacturing and inventory management systems plus wider access to customer information. In other words, it was time to migrate up from Sage 50—U.S. Edition, the accounting package that had worked so well during QesTec’s earlier days.
The Solution
QesTec implemented a full-featured networked computer system on Windows® NT, and selected Sage 100 ERP as its accounting solution. Deciding factors included the ability of Sage 100 ERP to maximize benefits of client/server technology such as performance and reliability. Also, it offered real-time inventory analysis with multiple user stations. And as an added bonus, transitioning records from Sage 50 to Sage 100 ERP would be easy. Sage 100 ERP was configured to calculate the costs of building memory upgrade products, recalculate the cost of finished goods, and then enter figures back in for finished products. It transformed the company’s data input process, eliminating the need for massive amounts of paperwork and double entries.
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