ACL increases productivity with ERP

ACL Cables has implemented the Microsoft Dynamics ERP system, through its consulting partner Raffles Solutions, to fuel its business productivity.

ACL Cables has identified that an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that is flexible and easy to use can play a critical role in helping its business achieve the agility it requires. Thus, ACL Cables will have access to accurate and up-to-the-minute information about product costs, sales trends and profit margins. “This will give us the advantage of information that is crucial to our strategic decisions about where and how to spend our finances, how to grow our revenue and most importantly, how to strengthen our margins,” said Ms Helen De Fonseka, IT Manager, ACL Cables PLC,. “Additionally, this will help streamline our work flow and enhance information flow across business functions and speed up our management reporting.”

Microsoft Dynamics is fully backed by an uncompromising commitment to empower Microsoft customers.  With a flexible, holistic approach to managing a business, Microsoft Dynamics will enhance connectivity with the people, processes, and information of ACL Cables to ensure its ultimate productivity. This ERP solution delivers core capabilities across solutions such as collaboration, project management, human resource management, IT management, Software-plus-Services, Financial management, Supply chain management, Business intelligence and Performance management.

 “With Microsoft Dynamics, we have seen more than 75 percent improvement in our processes. This increases our competitiveness and is key in enhancing our customer satisfaction,” added Ms De Fonseka. “Orders for fast moving inventory are now delivered within the day, with customized orders fulfilled within five to six days. Productivity has also improved with enhanced staff accountability as more
Processes can now be handled with less staff, and ACL Cables can now flexibly deploy its staff to other value-added business functions.”

Through the introduction of the ERP system, the integrated information received helps the Company establish a lower cost base through purchases, while helping to improve Quality of the product and Speed of delivery. Additionally, it has helped effectively deploy people and capital.

Another objective of the implementation of ERP is to provide the organization with a simpler method of managing and integrating the Controls involved in areas such as the Logistics, Inventory etc. This also helps us to better manage Merchandising stocks and Production which are crucial areas to be integrated to the main system.

Mr. Pubudu Basnayake, Director SMS&P, Microsoft Sri Lanka commented: “We are proud to introduce our Dynamics ERP solutions to ACL Cables. This will enable them to eliminate needless barriers, and allow their employees, partners, vendors, and customers to engage on behalf of shared goals”.

“Today’s organizations compete in an environment dramatically shaped by current economic conditions as well as ongoing challenges such as globalization, increasing customer demands, and escalating operational costs. ACL Cables, unlike some businesses who cut costs in the wrong departments, are intelligently using technology to help them stay agile, to streamline processes and find greater efficiencies across their organization.”

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