Merritt Reaches Digital Inflection Point with SYSPRO
公司规模
1,000+
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- SYSPRO 8
技术栈
- ERP
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
- Revenue Growth
技术
- 功能应用 - 企业资源规划系统 (ERP)
适用行业
- 运输
适用功能
- 商业运营
- 销售与市场营销
用例
- 数字线程
- 库存管理
- 过程控制与优化
- 仓库自动化
服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
Established in 1951, Merritt Trailers, Inc. and sister company Merritt Aluminum Products manufacture market-leading livestock and commodity trailers as well as aluminum parts and accessories for the trailer/trucking industry. The company grew its business reach throughout the U.S. and Canada, and today continues to offer world-class trailer and related aluminum parts manufacturing, superior service and access to its products via a wide dealer network. Merritt began as a small automotive and welding shop in Portland, Oregon, and has since grown into a significant player in the transportation and agricultural markets by focusing on superior quality of design and better construction. The company has a strong reputation and network within these markets, offering a wide range of products and services.
挑战
Merritt’s need to digitally transform was accelerated to meet the needs of a changing customer-preference world. With its existing solution unable to adapt, Merritt required a technology solution that was tightly integrated with its business plans to customize orders and handle tens of thousands of parts rather than hundreds of parts as in the past. The company had two distinct requirements: acquiring an ERP solution that was flexible enough to take the company into whatever future opportunities might arise and finding the right qualities in its ERP vendor partner. Merritt wanted to streamline an interface for the company’s salespeople to handle the new order entry requirements and secondly to ensure that the Bill of Materials system interfaced seamlessly to those orders.
解决方案
Merritt uses a full suite of SYSPRO 8 applications spanning financial modules, Bill of Materials, Quotations & Estimates, Requirements Planning, Factory Documentation, Lot Traceability, Product Configurator, Forecasting, and Reporting. SYSPRO met Merritt’s digital transformation customization and market growth requirements. Importantly, it was easy to learn and use, which helped employees adapt to the new system. In addition, SYSPRO delivered the flexibility needed to support future growth and innovation. Merritt’s thorough ERP industry evaluation led it to SYSPRO. Quickly discarding the large ERP industry giants because management did not see a cultural or personalized fit, the company’s experience with SYSPRO during the initial review cycle and subsequently through the nearly 10 years after deployment is giving the company exactly what it wanted as well as the means to support future growth and innovation.
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