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OFS International LLC

Company Size

1,000+

Region

America

Country

United States

Product

Acumatica Manufacturing Edition
Acumatica Financial Management
Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Office 365

Tech Stack

ERP
Manufacturing Execution System
Barcoding

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Cost Savings
Customer Satisfaction
Productivity Improvements

Technology Category

Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Applicable Industries

Oil & Gas

Applicable Functions

Field Services
Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation
Supply Chain Visibility
Track & Trace of Assets

Services

System Integration

About The Customer

OFS International LLC, also known as OFSi, is a field service company for the oil and gas industry. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with additional locations in Texas and Ohio. OFSi provides premium products required in the oil and gas industry, specifically for horizontal shale drilling. The company also sells services such as pipe inspection, pipe storage, accessories, field services, and rig returns. OFSi is known worldwide for its pipe threading, which includes manufacturing of premium couplings. The company has grown over the years, acquiring several companies, which resulted in three subsidiaries.

The Challenge

OFSi, a field service company for the oil and gas industry, acquired the pipe services assets of Scotland’s ITS Tubular Services Holdings Limited, inheriting an aging accounting system, Sage MAS 90. The system did not provide basic accounting functions and the inventory system was not integrated with the accounting system. There was no way to track sales orders because most customers were invoiced after a sale was complete. Inventory levels were tracked based on what appeared to be in the yard. OFSi initiated a project in 2014 to upgrade the accounting system from MAS 90 to Sage 100. However, as OFSi grew, acquiring several companies, incorporating the new business units into Sage 100 was difficult due to problems with the software. OFSi couldn’t effectively do business without a primary system of accounting, and the need for a modern, integrated ERP became obvious.

The Solution

OFSi turned to Acumatica, which met all requirements and more. The team chose Acumatica because it offers an unlimited user licensing model that would save the company roughly $175,000 in user fees over Sage, and that it had an open, adaptable platform for easy integration with third party systems. OFSi purchased the on-premises version of Acumatica and has implemented the Manufacturing, Inventory, Financial and Field Service modules. It has also integrated third party solutions including Office 365 and Microsoft PowerBI. OFSi is in the midst of its fourth Acumatica implementation phase, a customized effort to help it buy, sell and monitor pipes, along with the services it sells during the use of the pipes. The company created a program that links a specific pipe order and its attributes to a bar code on the pipe that can be tracked throughout its use, and Acumatica will connect to all that data.

Operational Impact

Managers with correct permissions have full transparency into OFSi financial operations in any of its four entities.
OFSi has reduced its invoicing time from 21 days to the same day.
Acumatica has introduced transparency into their systems, and quickly provides all of the information related to a specific job or customer.
Acumatica helps the company maintain a high level of customer service.
Acumatica facilitates a level of transparency for OFSi's records that is crucial for data archiving and financial representation.

Quantitative Benefit