Established in 1988, Piolax USA is a leading provider of plastics and metal fastening products to the automotive industry, where just-in-time delivery means orders are often on the production line within thirty minutes of arrival. Piolax had built an effective manual data entry strategy for its SAP environment. It was reliable, but to stay competitive the company needed to automate, and no out-of-the-box solution served its needs: complex order forecasting, agreement scheduling and tracking, order data validation, duplicate detection, alignment to lead-time SLAs, lifecycle management, audit trail archiving and retrieval, and customer credit checks.
Sales order processing is four to five times faster. A 36 percent efficiency increase delivered 00,000 in savings, and a 64 percent labor reduction delivered a further