SYSPRO Customer named Manufacturer of the Year 2008
START-IT Magazine Names Chocolate Potpourri for Visionary Use of SYSPRO Software, Mid-Market’s Pragmatic Choice for Integration, Lean Manufacturing and Support
COSTA MESA, Calif. – July 17, 2008 - SYSPRO, a provider of visionary ERP for the manufacturing pragmatist, today announced that START-IT magazine has named SYSPRO customer Chocolate Potpourri “2008 Manufacturer of the Year in the Mid-Market Category.” The award was presented to the Glenview, Ill.-based chocolate maker at the START-IT 11th annual Technology and Business Awards ceremony.
“The manufacturers being honored here tonight truly define ‘excellence in manufacturing’ and have learned the value of using innovative solutions from the industry’s top-notch technology providers,” said Peggy Smedley, editorial director of START-IT. “It is important to recognize these success stories, and we want to congratulate all of tonight’s winners on their superior achievements.”
Chocolate Potpourri demonstrated how a relatively small company has deployed visionary technology to compete successfully and profitably against much larger, multi-billion-dollar competitors. The company purchased SYSPRO’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite in 2004 via SYSPRO channel reseller Business Technology Partners of Northbrook, IL.
Chocolate Potpourri (www.chocolatetruffles.com) stated it has achieved a wide range of dramatic cost- and time-savings, plus revenue gain through SYSPRO features. The company’s sophisticated Web-based order entry, data accessibility and business process features have not only resulted in dollar savings but also in enhanced customer service.
Richard Gordon, president, Chocolate Potpourri, notes, “With SYSPRO we have an integrated reporting system that no longer requires the time-wasting import and export of data. We have an agile, customizable system that we can run either manually or by batch. We have access to these incredible visual tools that allow us to physically see current trends and forecasts. Most importantly, we can focus on tuning our facilities to the forecasts, rather than on fixing those previous errors and inefficiencies. From a manufacturing point of view, we have minimized our inventory. We have tuned our facilities so that we can plan conservatively yet are flexible enough to adjust on the fly when we need to.
“Being able to concentrate on planning, not fixing, means we have more time to commit to managing the business itself and nurturing its continued growth.”
SYSPRO’s more thoughtful approach to adopting new technology, such as web services and SOA platforms, also reflects the desires of its buyers who are driven by business needs and not by the latest headlines. This exemplifies SYSPRO’s ongoing strategy of helping to simplify the success of its customers. SYSPRO calls its buyer landscape “PragmaVision,” ™ consisting of pragmatic, visionary ERP executives that are driven by a desire for smart, but aggressive market growth.
About SYSPRO
Since its inception in 1978, SYSPRO has been delivering state-of-the-art business solutions to some of the world's leading companies. As a global leader in the production of world-class ERP software, the company now caters to the specialized needs of 14,000 licensed companies in more than 51 countries worldwide. SYSPRO is marketed globally through regional territory distribution centers and a global reseller network in the US, Canada, Africa, Asia Pacific, Australia and the UK.
SYSPRO is a fully integrated business software solution that provides complete control over the planning and management of all facets of business including accounting, manufacturing and distribution operations in a variety of industries.
About START-IT
START-IT magazine helps manufacturers take full advantage of the power of partnerships by emphasizing the importance of IT partnerships and how these partners are working together to reach their goals through the use of technology. Emphasizing the power of partnerships, START-IT is read by decision makers across all manufacturing segments as a primary source of business strategies to best take advantage of today’s technologies. www.start-itmag.com
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