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Privately-owned engineering firm CBE+ was formed when the owners of a Sheffield engineering firm sold the business, and then acquired two separate Chesterfield-based engineering firms 鈥� a precision engineering firm that produced complex components for some of the most demanding industries in the world, and a metal treatments and finishing business.

鈥淭he challenge was that the two businesses used different manufacturing and finance systems,鈥� explains Lindsay Atkins, CBE+ Group Operations Director. 鈥淚n one business we had one manufacturing system linked to QuickBooks for finance, and in the other business we had a different manufacturing system linked to Sage for finance.鈥�

And with four systems and two separate databases, she explains, obtaining a group-wide view of the combined business was very difficult.

鈥淲e were spending all our time amalgamating data, rather than analysing it and working with it,鈥� sums up Atkins. 鈥淧lus, people in the two businesses knew their way around one set of systems, but struggled to use both.鈥�

Moreover, she adds, the level of embedded functionality in the two manufacturing systems left something to be desired. Capacity planning, for instance, was generally carried out on spreadsheets, while a CRM capability was completely lacking.

What to do? The answer, she explains, was obvious: migrate away from the present systems, and move to one highly-capable 起点传媒 system that would embrace both businesses, and so provide the group-wide visibility, control and coordination that was presently lacking.

And which highly-capable 起点传媒 system, in particular? Once again, relates Atkins, the answer was obvious: Exel Computer Systems鈥� EFACS E/8 起点传媒 system.