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Services Offered: NetSuite Integration and Customization

Industry: Manufacturing

Overview

Commercial Residential Aluminum (CRA), a leader in the Florida pool and patio enclosure market, has built a reputation for innovative designs and high-quality products. Founded over 25 years ago, CRA has expanded its portfolio to include fencing, seamless gutters, and more. The company’s dedication to precision engineering and patented technologies sets them apart in a competitive industry.

The Challenge

CRA’s growth was being hampered by operational bottlenecks stemming from their use of multiple disconnected systems. These challenges created inefficiencies and restricted their ability to gain real-time insights into their business. Specifically, CRA faced the following hurdles:

Disparate Systems and Data Silos

Using multiple systems (Kronos, MSI Service Pro, and RF Smart) meant critical data was scattered and not easily accessible for analysis. This made it difficult to get a real-time picture of operations, leading to delays or inefficiencies.

Manual Processes and Inefficiencies

The company had to rely on manual data entry or transferring information between systems. This is time-consuming and prone to errors. Additionally, the lack of automation likely affected their project completion times and overall efficiency.

Limited Visibility and Reporting

Without a centralized data hub, it was difficult to generate accurate reports on things like project profitability, material usage, or labor costs. This came in the way of informed decision-making and the ability to identify areas for improvement.
Overcome hurdles

The Solution

Amzur was brought in to help CRA overcome these operational hurdles. Our team of experienced business professionals performed a thorough assessment of CRA’s existing systems and their specific business needs. Key considerations were how to seamlessly integrate Kronos, MSI Service Pro, and RF Smart while creating a single, unified view within a customized NetSuite 360 implementation. We implemented the following:

NetSuite SuiteSuccess: The core business management functions within NetSuite (accounting, inventory, etc.) provided the foundation for the solution.

Enhanced Integrations: Seamlessly connecting Kronos for time management, MSI Service Pro for scheduling and work orders, and RF Smart for accurate inventory control allowed information to flow freely between systems.

Automation and Customizations: Automated several manual processes, such as job creation, assembly creation, time entry, and commission calculations. Delivered customization to support CRA's specific piece-rate pay calculation methodology for their production workforce.

Results / Benefits

CRA achieved significant operational improvements and strategic advantages, including:

Unified 360-Degree View: All business data now resides in a single, cloud-based system. This gives CRA real-time visibility into all aspects of their operations, from initial customer contact to final project billing.

Increased Efficiency: Automation of key processes and seamless data flow between systems dramatically reduces manual effort and errors. This optimization liberates CRA's team to concentrate on innovation and customer engagement, driving further business growth.

Improved Project Profitability: Accurate tracking of labor costs, materials used, and real-time project status empowers CRA to make data-driven decisions and maximize profitability.

Enhanced Decision-Making: Real-time access to business insights enables CRA's leadership to make informed decisions quickly, adapting to changing market conditions and ensuring the business remains agile.

"With Amzur’s help, we were able to go beyond the limitations of a basic accounting/ERP system. They helped us implement a single, unified system that seamlessly integrates with our existing tools and runs our entire business on the cloud. Now, we have everything we need at our fingertips."

Doug Sorantino
VP of Operations

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Services Offered: NetSuite Financial Management, CPQ & Signnow integration

Industry: Manufacturing

Client Overview

The client is a specialized manufacturer & services provider of shutter solutions for security and storm protection in the USA. With over 30 years of successful operations, the company is one of the leading providers of various types of shutters such as Accordion, Rolling, Bahama & Colonial; besides various types of panels. Made from extruded aluminum, their hurricane shutters are recognized as amongst the best in the industry for creating barriers that are virtually impossible to penetrate, providing the best protection against both storms and criminal activity.

Challenges

The key issues that our customer wanted to address included:

Manual workflows

The sales process was time and effort intensive due to the manual nature of the process and their dependence on MS Excel for creating customized pricing and proposals. Within every sales order, customers were required to choose from a possible combination of over 250K product variations to determine the final cost.

Inefficient data management

Every order needs to be custom built making accurate tracking of sales orders very difficult based on the approval stage, manufacturing status, and installation status.

Lack of scalability

The company was finding it difficult to scale operations – sales people spent too much time on manual processes and MS Excel, time that could have been devoted to generating new business.

Limited insights and analytics

The management team was unable to draw consolidated financial information and sales projections since data was spread across numerous spreadsheets.

Need for automation

The company wanted to integrate Signnow (electronic signature service) and Solupay (online payments service) within their invoices and make it easy for customers to make payments
Sihnnow integration

Solution and Strategy

Amzur has over 15 years of experience in helping manufacturing companies deploy NetSuite and achieve ROI rapidly by ensuring high adoption rates of the new ERP. We do this by:
To address the challenges of the shutter manufacturer, our team created highly intuitive forms and data entry screens where the sales person has to simply provide the desired sizes and installation parameters for shutters, and the system automatically selects the appropriate components, calculates the costs based on the parameters entered, and it also applies a custom modification factor in order to arrive at the final price. Further, to make it easy for customers to accept and sign sales orders, we integrated SignNow into the contract documents, and SoluPay into the invoicing system to make it easy for customers to make payments using a single-click mechanism.

Deep understanding of customer personas

our experts spend time with the end-users with the intent to step into their shoes, understand their challenges, and identify the perfect solution that meets their requirements

Ensuring high usability of the proposed solution

our experts focus on delivering comprehensive yet easy-to-use front-ends so that end-users do not have to struggle with the new ERP

User-training and support

to ensure fast adoption of the new ERP, and achieve high levels of user satisfaction

Benefits

Enhanced sales operations and Configure, Price & Quote (CPQ)

The sales team can now access an easy-to-use online quote generation system, enabling quick pricing estimates. Streamlined NetSuite workflows have simplified bill of materials and paperwork generation, enhancing efficiency and reducing costs. These improvements result in faster responses to customers, improved accuracy, enhanced productivity, and cost savings.

Improved customer experience through better order tracking

Automating order tracking has delivered enhanced visibility of orders status, proactive resolution of potential delays, etc. which all adds up to superior customer service. The tracking process also considers approval, manufacturing, installation statuses, and intercompany transactions.

Improved scalability, flexibility, and decision-making analytics report

The custom processes developed for the company’s operation follow an architecture that provides deep flexibility in terms of reporting through the native tools in NetSuite (Saved Searches, Workbooks, Saved Reports).

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Services Offered: Custom Warehouse Management System and NetSuite Implementation

Industry: Retail and Distribution

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Client Overview

Located in Pompano Beach, Florida; Party Good Warehouse is a family owned business that supplies party goods and tableware to retailers. The company has been operating for 45 years and has grown substantially in that period, and now caters to the requirements of over 1500 customers across the United States. The company focuses on sustainable growth and is carving its own niche in a highly competitive industry that it operates in.

Challenges

Field sales reps did not have access to sales applications/ systems in the field, and were required to visit a store location for registering new customer orders. The need was for a mobile-friendly solution.
The company was also facing challenges in simplifying complex workflows, and increasing sales closures while minimizing inquiries that were saved in the system but did not progress beyond that.
They needed to automate the entire order-to-invoice process.
They also required the incorporation of automation for generating and using barcodes to track inventory and sales
The existing dashboard was in urgent need of upgrades and numerous features were needed for providing a better overview of sales, production, and finance processes.
Warehouse Management System

Solution and Strategy

The Amzur team developed a comprehensive Warehouse Management System (WMS) based on SuiteScript, with inbuilt APIs for integration with their existing NetSuite installation. The team focused on a solution that was simple yet elegant, so that it could be adopted quickly by all users across the organization. This was achieved by an intense focus on the creation of a highly effective user interface. Key highlights of the solution included:

A highly user-friendly UI designed for mobile users/ field workforce

End-end-end automation of the warehouse’s Pick, Pack & Ship transactions

Creation of new user interfaces for simplifying data entry and usage of the application

Customized solution for barcode label printing

Integration of barcode readers for scanning of UPC codes on tagged items

Benefits

With its user-friendly interface and mobile accessibility, the new WMS has improved the inventory control and speed of daily operations

The WMS now provides real-time data entry and eliminates the need for additional user license costs in NetSuite

The order process has improved substantially with the help of automated label printing and barcoding options. The process is much faster and user friendly

The Pick, Pack, and Ship process is now more flexible and easier to manage

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