Client: Bluebird Corporation, Macon Georgia.
Client’s Core Business: Bluebird Corporation is one of the leading manufacturers of school buses and recreational vehicles.
Problem Statement: Quote to Production time is very high, which was impacting delivery time, inventory and demand management.
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We took a phase approach to resolve the issues, a brief on the approach is mentioned below:
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Client: Lanco Holding Group, Homewood, IL
Client’s Core Business: Manufacturing, Service, Sales and Distribution, Sports and Entertainment. The group has strong presence in the market and is growing by acquiring new business.
Problem Statement: The internal IT skill set, process and infrastructure was not aligned with the business goals and was affecting the day-to-day business operations. The stakeholders were worried about their internal IT business unit to support their growing business.
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Client: Major Healthcare provider (Due to agreement the name is not disclosed)
Client’s Core Business: Healthcare
Problem Statement: The client was spending on employee benefits higher than the industry standards, but still the employee turnover was high and productivity was low.
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Client: Mi-Jack Corporation
Client’s Core Business: Manufacturing, Sales and Distribution
Problem Statement: MiJack hired an ERP Vendor for company wide ERP migration/ implementation to support their growing business. For two years the implementation was going on with out any visibility to stakeholders. MiJack’s stakeholders decided to engage Agelix to assess the situation and then continue with the implementation.
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Client: Broderson Manufacturing
Client’s Core Business: Manufacturing of equipment
Problem Statement: Brodersons' customers wanted to order the parts of the Broderson’s equipments via a third-party named Smart Equipment. The challenges are to provide the pictorial view of the parts of the equipment to the customer to order right parts and the integration between Broderson and the Smart Equipment system to receive the requisition and process the order.
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Client: Lanco Holding Group, Homewood, IL
Client’s Core Business: Manufacturing, Service, Sales and Distribution, Sports and Entertainment. The group has strong presence in the market and is growing by acquiring new business.
Problem Statement: Lanco was looking to outsource their Information Technology to an outside vendor to manage it for a year to streamline and optimize the process. Another goal was to make their internal resources prepared for future expansions. Every business unit was maintaining its own system due to which the core business was getting affected and the operational cost was very high.
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Client: Mi-Jack Corporation
Client’s Core Business: Manufacturing
Problem Statement: MiJack's internal engineering team designed the RT crane for railway yard. They wanted a third party to provide FEA analysis before the production starts.
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Agelix along with its partner L&T India simulated the condition and analyzed the below parameters:
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Client: Tico Manufacturing
Client’s Core Business: Manufacturing of tractors and equipment for terminal services
Problem Statement: Migration of Microsoft Dynamics to Epicor 10 on cloud.
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Client: Webco Manufacturing
Client’s Core Business: Manufacturing, Casting and Forging
Problem Statement: Webco was using Costimator to calculate the cost and send the quotes to the customers. The customer has to enter the data from Epicor manually in the ERP to generate the sales order. The process was tedious and erroneous.
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Client: Pacifica Solutions. A retail seller of online beauty products.
Project: Epicor Product Integration
Problem Statement: Client with an Epicor 10 implementation for managing their supply chain workflow decided to migrate their web store presence to the Shopify platform (http://shopify.com). The Shopify platform allows the creation of an online webstore and management of sales and fulfillment of products within this store. This management is done using a set of REST API calls. The client wanted to integrate the Epicor platform with operations such as inventory management and customer fulfillment details.
Agelix's Approach:
Agelix worked with the client to analyze their needs and determine what tools and libraries they currently had access to. Instead of building a new extension point, it was determined that the least intrusive approach was to extend the existing script library to invoke the necessary REST API calls on Shopify.
This extension library for the invocation was termed: Shopify C# Wrapper and designed to support integration of any client with Shopify.
The wrapper library was built in C# and allows data to flow bi-directionally to/ from Epicor. Input for the wrapper invocation is data extracted from Epicor and passed into the wrapper script as execution arguments. The output from each execution is preserved in SQL Server for later data feed into Epicor. To optimize the functional speed of the application, the C# Futures API was used to multi-thread the data load process.
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The client was pleased with the library implementation as it helped automate what would surely have been several hours of daily data entry and removed the possibility of inventory or fulfillment errors through such a manual process.