Gloucester Engineering
Gloucester Engineering Case Study for Infor CloudSuite Industrial ERP
The Company: About Gloucester Engineering
Gloucester Engineering Co. (GEC) has been a global leader in advancing quality and production limits in the plastics extrusion and converting market. The company offers a range of innovative systems and components for new lines and retrofits, providing applications that include blown and cast film extrusion, foam and sheet extrusion, bag making, and extrusion coating equipment. GEC manufactures equipment from its headquarters in Gloucester, MA, and through its joint-venture company in Damman, India.
The Situation: Ensure Database Security
Challenges
- Easily manage CRM, sales, financials, and mixed-mode
manufacturing - Gain visibility across all four business units
- Ensure database security with instant remote access
- Avoid application and server compatibility issues, and
support growth without increasing IT costs
The Solution: Infor CloudSuite Industrial ERP
The Results: Infor CloudSuite Industrial ERP Implementation Benefits
- Gained rich functionality of on-premises software plus
the flexibility of on-demand cloud access - Reduced risk of lost data and hardware issues by having
database and software maintenance performed in the cloud - Ensured applications are always current and synchronized
with hardware, eliminating the need to update servers or
resolve compatibility issues - Gained scalability for growth without expanding the IT
infrastructure, saving IT and administrative costs, including
during future upgrades and acquisitions - Easily integrated disparate systems to provide visibility
across all four business units into one central data source
containing real-time information - Improved ability to closely track customers, prospects, and
account information, as well as monitor the shop floor - Enhanced decision-making via real-time visibility into
customer service, sales, manufacturing, and
financial reporting - Slashed closing cycle time by over 60% soon after
system implementation - Saved over $108,000 in annual direct payroll costs, $34,000
in annual software and service costs, and $40,000 annually
from less leakage through credit and payment
An intuitive user interface and Infor ION Suite integration
capabilities combined with maintenance in the cloud to give
Gloucester Engineering speed and flexibility.
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