Case Studies
SYSPRO Helps Vanns Spices Enhance Efficiency and Tighten Controls
Overview
Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) | |
Food & Beverage | |
Procurement Quality Assurance | |
Inventory Management | |
Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration | |
Operational Impact
The company’s choice of SYSPRO has been validated many times over, says Whitlock. “The software’s reporting functionality, linked into Crystal reports, is phenomenal,” he says. “I can now show our board what products we sell the most of, which products are our most profitable and so on. The reports give us an in-depth picture of our company at any point in time.” | |
Whitlock notes that SYSPRO has also been instrumental in Vanns’ ability to compete. “We now know the exact costs of our products. In the past, we could only do estimates. We’re able to efficiently analyze the cost of our materials - which fluctuates so much in this business. Commodities may be $4 a pound one month and $8 a pound the next month. | |
SYSPRO has also enabled efficiencies in our purchasing. We’re able to determine rising product prices, so we’ll buy more of that particular item, i.e., buy three months’ worth of the product rather than two months’ worth. The software enables us to determine how much we’ll save by buying greater quantities and how much inventory we’ll need to have, which also ties right in with our cash flow picture telling us whether we have the cash flow to do that sort of thing. The software does that instantaneously. Again, we have a real-time picture of what’s going on in the company. | |
Quantitative Benefit
Commodities may be $4 a pound one month and $8 a pound the next month. | |
Buy three months’ worth of the product rather than two months’ worth. | |