Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that Rochester Hills-based Bordine Nursery Ltd. has selected Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 to improve the company’s capacity to support its growth with and streamline financial reporting, sales and other processes.
Bordine grows, wholesales and retails garden products and nursery stock.
Bordine chose Novi-based Microsoft Gold Certified partner Integrated Software Systems Inc., to implement the new enterprise resource planning system, which automates, integrates and better manages finances, e-commerce, manufacturing, supply chains, accounting, field service, customer relationships and human resources processes.
The new system replaces a UNIX-based accounting system that no longer can handle all of the company’s needs. It previously used Infor ERP Facts supply chain software that required the development of separate databases for manufacturing and point of sale, entailing double or triple entry of most data.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 will enable Bordine to integrate its separate databases into a single database that will support accounting, sales, production and other functions.
Bordine chose Microsoft Dynamics NAV after reviewing 10 software products and participating in demonstrations of systems that included Exact Macola ES and Sage MAS 500 in addition to Microsoft technology.
Also, for the first time Bordine will be able to easily mine data from its customer loyalty-card program to provide its marketing department with information on buying patterns.
NAV also allows Bordine to use one database to do sales planning, leading to a calculation of production demand, which generates purchase orders for raw materials and a production schedule, resulting in finished materials for inventory. Also, Bordine will be able to measure production against labor expenses to determine its cost per unit, a process that was very difficult to do with its previous system. Managers also will be able to respond rapidly to cost variations, because cost information will be available to analyze in a very timely fashion.
Bordine will also be able to carry out its planning more efficiently than before, using an integrated system instead of needing to export and import data between two systems. The ability to mine data from its customer base is expected to allow Bordine to hone its marketing programs to be more effective than previously.
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