ERP The Importance Of Choosing Wisely

Lighthouse9031 May, 2022Business

Anyone in the market for an ERP system needs to get to grips with every last detail of functionality before placing their order, warns Malcolm Wheatley. Mistakes can be costly. Gloucestershire-based Fluid Transfer International designs and manufactures aviation and naval refueling equipment such as fuel trucks, which they sell to defense ministries and airports worldwide. Each order is bespoke, finance director Richard Iles Caine told me. It starts with a vehicle chassis, onto which the company then adds the required components and sub-assemblies. Key to performing that juggling act: an ERP system ? K8 Manufacturing, from manufacturing ERP specialist Datawright ? containing a configurator, from which Fluid Transfer?s order entry and production planning personnel build order-specific MRP bills-of-material.