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Customer Success with MSS

Building Products Manufacturing

Accelerating Growth with Integrated IT

TUFF SHED Inc. is a leading manufacturer, reseller, and installer of storage buildings, garages and carports throughout the United States. With nearly 60 sales and building products manufacturing facilities, throughout the country, this building products manufacturer distributes its product lines through its company-owned stores and selected Home Depot stores. Long known throughout the western United States for its high quality wood and steel products, TUFF SHED has seen significant growth over the last several years. Like many, growing companies, this storage building manufacturer, needed an integrated ERP system to enables delivery of the right information to the right user in a timely manner.

Building Products Manufacturing: Challenges
  • Challenged with creating an integrated IT infrastructure that would scale to accommodate their continued growth.
  • Have an integrated ERP system that would improve their ability to manage sales-to-built ratios
  • Integrate their IT system in order to expand visibility into processes company-wide to improve operational efficiency.

Building Products Manufacturing: Solution
  • Selected JD Edwards to create a scalable financial and manufacturing foundation to support production, distribution, sales, and ordering at facilities in 24 states.
  • Reduce risk and accelerate the company's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne implementation using an IBM iSeries platform.

Building Products Manufacturing: Results
  • With an integrated ERP system, were able to accelerate the monthly financial review cycle from 15 days to 5 days, which provided greater visibility into their financial position.
  • Having an integrated ERP system, now have the ability to view and manage a $19 million inventory in real time from a single perspective.
  • The new integrated ERP system has supported the storage building manufacturer's 100% revenue growth over three years with the addition of only one new IT staff member.
  • The highly scalable IT environment has allowed the company to increase processing from 60,000 transactions per day to 60,000 transactions per minute.

 

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