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JDE Customer Success with MSS: Fabricated Metal Manufacturing

Streamlining Operations to Maximize Profitability

Mid-America Door Company, founded in 1991, designs and manufactures steel sectional overhead-type garage doors for commercial and residential applications. The distributor network spans 27 states. Mid-America was looking for a company with professional, technical, project management expertise that would provide them with quick, out-of-the-box access to a highly flexible and cost-effective solution to their IT infrastructure.

Fabricated Metal Manufacturing: Challenges
  • Growing quickly and wanted to update itsLegacy IT environment to accommodate rapid growth and ensure future scalability.
  • Consolidate and automate processes to improve operational efficiency, in order to accommodate a wide range of pricing models and customizations.
  • Improve the productivity and effectiveness ofits sales force.

Fabricated Metal Manufacturing: Solution

  • Implemented the JDE Supply Chain Management software solution for fabricated metal manufacturing and integrated it with the Financial Management application.
  • Needed to improve operational efficiency, productivity, and IT scalability across sales and manufacturing.
  • Avoid application customization to keep the implementation costs low and to protect future upgrade options as the business grows.

Fabricated Metal Manufacturing: Results

  • Eliminate redundant, error-prone, and time consuming processes and improved productivity and data integrity.
  • The company achieved rapid return on investment, surpassing the company’s two-year ROI goal.
  • With the manufacturing application, Mid-America Door is now managing over one million combinations of door configurations including window styles, color options, strut mechanisms and lock selection.
  • It has automated the supply chain process, reducing inventory carry by 50% during a period in which the company grew by 20%.
  • The company has improved asset and capacity utilization while reducing inventory, shrinking lead times, and achieving overall cost-of-goods improvements.


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