Business Imperative
A designer and manufacturer of commercial lighting systems for large buildings, such as office blocks, universities and hospitals, Rotherham-based ASD Lighting bought Exel’s EFACS E/8 ERP system back in 2009, going live in 2010.
As implementations of EFACS go, it is a reasonably-sized system, says ASD’s IT Manager, Simon Stones: 55 concurrent back office users, 45 factory floor users and 30 licences for Exel’s mobile CRM system.
But by 2019, management recognised that the version of EFACS that it ran was becoming dated, and the latest version offered more functionality. The version in use was five years old – five years in which major software developments and new functionality were introduced; as well as an easier-to-use and quicker user interface.
ASD’s Supply Chain and Process Director, Darrell Clark, realised the advantages offered by the new functionality in the latest version of EFACS.
“From what we saw, the progress in the product was phenomenal,” he explains. “It was definitely time to seriously investigate how we could deploy it in the business.”