United States: COMMCO Latest Company to Switch From SAP R/3 to NetSuite OneWorld.Byline: Mamta03 NetSuite Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : N), a leading vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, today announced that COMMCO LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (www.commco.com), a Kansas City-based distribution and light manufacturing company and a leading home improvement millwork distributor, is the latest company to successfully switch from SAP R/3 to NetSuite OneWorld, going live on time and on budget, and providing the Kansas City-based company substantial savings. In an effort to modernize its business operations and eliminate the high cost of maintaining and upgrading SAP's complex, on-premise software, COMMCO transitioned to NetSuite and now relies on NetSuite's cloud computing platform for its core operational needs, including Enterprise Resource Planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (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. ) functionality such as inventory management, ordering, fulfillment, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. communications, corporate financials, and reporting; and Customer Relationship Management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) functionality such as sales and customer service management. Franklin Christopher, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of COMMCO, provides an insightful overview of his company's move from SAP R/3 to the NetSuite Cloud in a recently recorded webinar accessible here: www.netsuite.com/commco. According to Christopher, SAP's offerings fell far short of the NetSuite cloud solution and Christopher calculated it had only 30 percent the functionality of NetSuite. "NetSuite Professional Services provided us with a smooth transition that included teaching us how to create our own reporting so that the average employee could customize their own role-based dashboards and reports going forward," Christopher said. "SAP wanted our business, but our knowing that NetSuite's entire focus is on SaaS and the depth of functionality they offered compared to SAP Business ByDesign made the choice easy." COMMCO, based in Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest in Missouri, which includes counties in both Missouri and Kansas. , distributes moulding to the home improvement market, including high-profile nationwide retailers such as Lowe's. The eight-year-old company's 120 employees account for $45 million in annual revenue. Previously, COMMCO was owned by another company, which ran its business on SAP R/3. After being sold to new owners some years back, COMMCO was grandfathered in grandfathered in adj. refers to continued use of property as it was when restrictions or zoning ordinances were adopted. to its former parent's instance of the SAP operating system. But with COMMCO's prior parent company considering new options, COMMCO was forced to choose between continuing its own instance of SAP and managing it with a smaller staff, or selecting a next-generation enterprise solution. NetSuite OneWorld proved to be the right choice for COMMCO. The company could not justify continuing to use SAP R/3 which would have cost in excess of $1 million, so COMMCO looked for SaaS options which could be implemented quickly, allowing a prompt transition off of its former ERP system. COMMCO considered SAP's SaaS product Business ByDesign, but declared NetSuite OneWorld the superior solution and the one more easily tailored for a remotely located, growing business like COMMCO. NetSuite OneWor Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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