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SI Group

Specialty chemicals manufacturer gains global visibility and reduces complexity with Ross Enterprise

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Customer Snapshot

SI Group Shanghai, Limited is a specialty chemicals company with over 90 staff.

It began trading operations in China in 1999 and opened a purpose-built, world-class manufacturing facility in Shanghai in 2004. This plant provides technologically superior, high-quality chemical products, more than 50% of which are exported to customers around the world.

Challenges

  • Lacked integration, creating challenges in consolidating global information and procurement of raw materials
  • Originally selected generalized, complex ERP system that lacked focus and functionality
  • With plans to rollout to 25 operations by 2006, system complexity and cost were important

Benefits

  • Provided global visibility to view and share information with world-wide deployment
  • Reduced complexity--reduction of database tables to 2,500 from 12,000 with Ross ERP
  • Completed implementations in England, Germany, Mexico, China, and Switzerland
  • On target to complete implementations in all 25 operations by June 2006