Fluid Routing Solutions Transforms Operations with Plex ERP for Enhanced Efficiency and Cost Savings
公司规模
Mid-size Company
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- Plex ERP
- QAD
技术栈
- Cloud Computing
- ERP
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Quality Management
- Supply Chain Management
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
- Customer Satisfaction
技术
- 功能应用 - 企业资源规划系统 (ERP)
- 功能应用 - 制造执行系统 (MES)
适用行业
- 汽车
- 设备与机械
适用功能
- 商业运营
- 采购
- 质量保证
用例
- 供应链可见性(SCV)
- 预测性维护
- 过程控制与优化
服务
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
Fluid Routing Solutions (FRS) is a manufacturer of industrial hose products and fuel filler and hydraulic fluid assemblies. The company underwent significant changes when it was acquired by a private equity firm, which brought about a unique set of business challenges. These challenges included the need to establish new IT functions and purchase its own ERP solution. FRS operates in the automotive industry and is located in Southfield, MI. The company is focused on meeting customer requirements, minimizing costs, and achieving quality goals, all while dealing with the pressures of ownership changes and business status shifts. FRS needed to migrate its entire infrastructure and application environment away from a legacy AS400 system quickly, as per the conditions of its Transition Service Agreement.
挑战
Manufacturers must meet customer requirements, minimize costs and achieve quality goals, and do all of this with increasingly fewer resources. These pressures are intensified with changes in ownership and business status. Under such circumstances, manufacturers face unusually intense scrutiny and must meet ambitious expectations for productivity and profitability while simultaneously setting up new business processes — often within extremely short timeframes. Under the conditions of its Transition Service Agreement, FRS was required to migrate its entire infrastructure and application environment away from a legacy AS400 system very quickly. Before it could make that change, however, the manufacturer needed to select and launch its own ERP solution.
解决方案
FRS selected Plex as its new ERP solution, with the implementation led by Plex Systems’ partner Plante Moran. The system launch was completed in six months, focusing on bringing in an affordable solution that could be launched quickly with minimal disruption. Plex ERP combines the capabilities of ERP, manufacturing execution systems (MES), quality management, customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management. The cloud solution provides FRS access to consistent, accurate, real-time business information, enabling effective management of various business aspects, including bills of material, purchasing, receiving, inventory, manufacturing, quality, planning and scheduling, shipping, EDI, engineering change tracking, financials, document control, human resources, and supply chain management. Plex ERP also offers tools that increase visibility into supplier operations, facilitate better communications, and add discipline to quality management across the supply chain. The supplier portal notifies FRS suppliers of quality issues and allows for communication of nonconformances and associated costs through an automated issues log. Suppliers are required to respond within 24 hours using Plex ERP, and the supplier scorecard grades suppliers based on complaints, product rejections, production disruptions, and nonconformances.
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