Case Study: Glouchester Engineering

Solution: ERP
Products: Infor™ SyteLine
Industry: Industrial Manufacturing/Plastics Fab
Country: USA

About the company
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.

Challenges

• Easily manage CRM, sales, financials, and mixedmode
  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
  

Benefits

• Gained rich functionality of on-premises software plus
  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 customer, prospect, 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 combine with maintenance in the cloud to give
Gloucester Engineering speed and flexibility.