Excelsior-Henderson Selects J.D. Edwards to Provide Smooth Road to Growth; The Need for Flexible, Scalable ERP Solution Steers Startup Motorcycle Manufacturer to J.D. Edwards WorldSoftware and Arthur Andersen.DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1998--Business software developer J.D. Edwards (J.D. Edwards & Company, Denver, CO, www.jdedwards.com) A developer of multinational, integrated enterprise software for distribution, finance, human resources, manufacturing and supply chain management. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :JDEC JDEC Joint Data Exchange Center (US/Russian missile warning) JDEC Joint Document Exploitation Center (US DoD) ) today announced that Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle Company was founded by Dan Hanlon and Dave Hanlon (brothers) who secured the rights to the defunct Excelsior-Henderson trademark in 1994. The two brothers found a number of investors and built a state-of-the-art factory in Belle Plaine, Minnesota. Manufacturing Co., working with Arthur Andersen For the U.S. Supreme Court case commonly known as Arthur Andersen, see . Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (the other four are PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG), performing , the global multidisciplinary professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firm, will implement J.D. Edwards' WorldSoftware(tm) to integrate its financial, manufacturing and distribution data as it moves from the pre-revenue stage to one of swift growth. With the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AS/400-based WorldSoftware, Excelsior-Henderson will get a flexible ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. solution that meets its immediate functional requirements See information requirements and functional specification. (specification) functional requirements - What a system should be able to do, the functions it should perform. while opening a clear migration path to a client/server computing environment. "J.D. Edwards fits our need for a scalable enterprise system that will satisfy our requirements as a pre-revenue company yet can be expanded easily to accommodate the rapid development we expect," said Dave Danson, director of information systems for Excelsior-Henderson. "J.D. Edwards financials are known for their flexibility. We can quickly bring up the financial system for our immediate operating needs, then build upon the module as we rapidly expand our business. Also appealing was J.D. Edwards' coexistence strategy, which will allow us to migrate to its network-centric OneWorld(tm) application at our pace." Because of WorldSoftware's configurability, Excelsior-Henderson can customize the system to its unique requirements without modifying to the software, saving the company time and money as it upgrades. Also, J.D. Edwards' quality module and the software's ability to interface with WC Fields, the warranty claims module from Van Nuys, Calif.-based Midrange Software, will enable Excelsior-Henderson to capture and correlate quality test data from the manufacturing floor with serialized components. The company can then track the actual test data with the vehicle identification number (VIN VIN Vulvar intraepithelial neoplasm, see there ) history file as motorcycles are sold to retail customers, a critical capability. By integrating warranty tracking with manufacturing data by VIN, Excelsior-Henderson can review the quality statistics for a component to find patterns and make adjustments that will improve product quality. "The ease with which J.D. Edwards was able to handle this critical function gave the company an advantage, and more subtle things, like the integrity of the J.D. Edwards staff really came through during the selection process," said Danson. "The J.D. Edwards culture felt like a close fit with our own." Excelsior-Henderson enlisted Arthur Andersen to manage the software selection process and perform the implementation. "As a rapidly growing company, we needed to get an ERP solution in place immediately, and Arthur Andersen provides the technical support to help us do that," said Danson. "Thanks to their expertise in ERP, Arthur Andersen allowed us to zero in quickly on our unique requirements and find a solid match in J.D. Edwards' WorldSoftware. Plus, Arthur Andersen's experience with and resources in best practices procedures will help us in our configuration of the environment during implementation." A team of consultants from Arthur Andersen is working on-site at Excelsior-Henderson's headquarters on the software implementation, which is being completed in three phases over a rapid 12-month time frame. Initially, about 80 users will be on the system; that number is expected to triple within a few years, following the company's staffing plan. About Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle Manufacturing Co. Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle Manufacturing Co. (NASDAQ: BIGX) plans to manufacture, market and sell premium heavyweight cruisers and touring motorcycles with a brand that evokes an authentic American motorcycling heritage and lifestyle. The company's new 160,000-square-foot manufacturing and administrative facility in Belle Plaine Belle Plaine may refer to:
Excelsior-Henderson's inaugural model, the Super X, is reminiscent of the classic American heavyweight cruisers with the same name produced in the early part of this century by the original Excelsior Supply Co. They were considered to be among the best motorcycles of their time. The company's new Super X motorcycles will be sold through a national network of dealers located in major population centers and the major motorcycling markets. About Arthur Andersen Arthur Andersen's business consulting practice assists leading organizations in improving their decision making, business operations and organizational capability through a broad range of process improvement, performance enhancement and middle market technology implementation services. Arthur Andersen is a global multidisciplinary professional services firm that helps its clients improve their business performance through assurance and business advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal , business consulting, economic and financial consulting and tax and business advisory services. With more than $5 billion in revenues, Arthur Andersen serves clients in more that 350 locations in 78 countries. To learn more about Arthur Andersen, visit its web site at http://www.arthurandersen.com About J.D. Edwards J.D. Edwards develops, markets and supports enterprise software that operates in multiple computing environments, including IBM AS/400, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Windows NT and the Internet. Founded in 1977, J.D. Edwards is headquartered in De practices while reducing costs and business iy. All other product names and companies referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The historical results stated above are CONTACT: o your home page. URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com |
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