Implementation Case Study SAG lobal Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Customer Reference Protective Industrial Products (Hong Kong) Background Client: Protective Industrial Products (Hong Kong) Protective Industrial Products, a supplier of work gloves and personal protective equipment to distribution throughout the world. Protective Industrial Products is a U.S. based company that is jointly owned by Joe Milot, the company’s president, and Wellson Tao, his partner. Since 1984, PIP has operated as a supplier of work gloves as “buy and sell” partners with the value proposition of quality, integrity, and safety to distribution throughout the United States. In recent years, operations in Mexico, Australia, China and Panama have been developed to meet the needs of those countries. PIP’s products have been designed and well tested with the utmost safety. PIP offers extensive products of personal protection equipment including eye and face protection, hearing protection, head protection, ergonomic wear, respiratory safety, hand protection, hand sanitizer, warning beacons, and etc. Situation Goals: Enhance resource management PIP has been using NAV for many years and decide to upgrade to AX 2012 R2 with below main objective nteroperability among business units etter analysis on the company operation and performance by utilizing AX dimension Increased control over multicompany Better master data maintenance especially on [Product Variance] because a single product has many variation including size/color in PIP business Solution: Upgrade NAV to AX 2012 Number of Users: 22 Users (6 Enterprise users + 16 Functional users) Improve system performance because NAV system speed including searching/report generation is not desirable Solution There are 4 companies in existing Dynamics NAV for PIP. In this project, PIP decided to implement 3 Hong Kong companies in Dynamics AX 2012 first, and implement AX 2012 for other countries after this project. Implementation period: 4 months 1 Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Modules to be implemented: Finance process o General ledger o Account receivable o Account payable o Cash and bank management Procurement process o Procurement and sourcing Warehouse process o Product information management o Inventory and warehouse management Sales process o Sales and marketing Business flow for order processing: Drop ship Stock sales EDI function for Acknowledge partner’s company Benefit from AX 2012 AX 2012 has product master that can maintain product dimension like size, color, configuration, and etc. It can improve the product control/keeping for PIP. On the other hand, master data sharing feature in AX 2012 can help PIP on controlling the chart of account and Product maintenance. Only 1 set of master data can enhance data consistency from time to time. 2 For more information about Microsoft Dynamics, Please Click here About SAGlobal Originated from Belgian, EU and now headquartered in Hong Kong and with Centers of Excellence in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America, SAGlobal provides solutions and services around MS Dynamics’ AX. SAGlobal was established in 1990 (formerly named Systems Advisers Group) and we have over 23 years’ experience in ERP & Business Financial Software. As a Global Microsoft Partner, we're represented across 25 marketing and customer support offices across 6 continents which connect our 450+ resources worldwide. The focus of the entire company is 100% on Microsoft Dynamics AX, making us among the largest AX Partners globally. Our customers are typically multi-country implementations of AX and so our delivery and project management is also global, allowing our customers to benefit from the combination of onshore and offshore teams. SAGlobal has grown at close to 60% over the past two years. Most of our clients are global clients, so the actual business done is much larger. SAGlobal is also one of the only Partners who is part of the entire Microsoft Dynamics AX lifecycle from Product Development (for Microsoft) to Implementation and through to Support (for MS, SAGlobal Customers, Partner’s Customers) via our captive Microsoft OF site in India which focuses on development projects for Microsoft on Microsoft Dynamics AX. Let’s talk info@SAGlobal.com SAGlobal: We provide global solutions and services around Microsoft Dynamics AX. As one of the fastest growing Microsoft Dynamics partners globally we are currently 1 of only 4 global "Super Vendors" to Microsoft for Microsoft Dynamics services. With experience in global implementations in over 50 countries and a presence across 6 continents, the group has Centres of Excellence in North America, Europe, Africa, A-Pac and Latin America offering local expertise with global reach. For more information, Visit: http://www.SAGlobal.hk Or call us at: +852 2534 6823 3 Americas: +1 877-877-2266 ext. 703 EMEA: +44 207 458 4419 APAC: +91 80 6733 8215 www.axforprojects.com