Customer Information

APEX was established in 2000, the company is located on the 24th floor of Hualin Constellation in the center of Fuzhou, and is the leading developer and international trading agent of footwear products (sports shoes, casual shoes, etc.) in China. Annual turnover of 130 The annual turnover is 130 million US dollars. At present, 80% of our customers are multinational retail groups, such as WALMART, TARGET, KMART, SEARS, etc.

Project Background

Since its establishment in 2000, APEX has been working hard to develop itself into one of the leading development and international trading agents of footwear products (sports shoes, casual shoes, etc.) in China, and the internal management of the company has been rapidly improved to a high level. With the continuous growth of the company in recent years, APEX faces new management challenges. Rapidly growing business, increasing orders, complex customer demands, and increasing product development capabilities all place severe demands on the company's existing IT management capabilities. How to efficiently and accurately integrate all resources, improve the company's overall execution of the management system, sort out sales, procurement, finance, product development process, technology transfer, quality management and other aspects of the process, and continue to tap into the existing productivity of the company to continue to ensure the company's rapid development, has become an important issue that the company's leadership hopes to solve.

Solutions

APEX adopts Microsoft Dynamics AX to realize business capabilities such as sales management, purchasing management, product data management, R&D management, quality management, and financial management.

- Sample management: including sample order production management, raw material production management, sample cost analysis management, etc..

- Sample production: sample order is created in the system, and after confirming the need for trial production, it is turned into sample purchase order and handed over to R&D department to arrange trial production, after single code, skip code, full set and other trial production process according to different situations

- Mass production management: the production department gets the order demand in the system, arranges production, makes production reports, gets information on quality inspection requirements, etc.

- Business quotation inquiry: The business department receives customer inquiry, establishes a quotation, generates a corresponding quotation through the quotation, selectively asks for quotations from suppliers, and can ask for quotations from multiple suppliers if necessary, and after feeding back the results, establishes quotation information according to certain price requirements and quotes to customers; returns the quotation several times and establishes a quotation according to the rules of the new quotation.

- Sales return management: Combine sales return with customer management, shipment management and accounts receivable management through bank water bill recognition to achieve accurate management of accounts receivable.

- PI contract production: taking orders from sales orders, PI can be printed in advance to link sales and procurement business with PI contract as the axis off.

- Accurate cost accounting: comparison of profit and loss at each stage from sales quotation, sales shipment and sales return, from expected profit and loss of sales quotation, to profit and loss of sales shipment to final collection and comparison of actual profit and loss with exchange rate, analysis of order profit and loss and comparison of salesman's quotation ability.

- Collection and payment business: accurate management of collection and payment business that occurs in large quantities for trading companies.

- Procurement scheduling: Use the system payment terms to generate scheduling recommendations.

- Approval workflow: Through AX approval workflow, APEX's approval authorization system, including expense reimbursement and order management, is configured in the ERP system, while meeting the characteristics of flexible adjustment of the company's organizational structure.

- Product data management: combined with the characteristics of the footwear industry and APEX's own management needs, to achieve a comprehensive management of the process of large, small and medium categories; product material parts; new products, sample management; material categories; packaging information; special parts and other industry, enterprise characteristics.

- Export declaration management: Combining the characteristics of different ports of export, different tax rates and different customs declaration formats, and combining different needs such as ETD and formal invoices, the export declaration management is unified to achieve.

Microsoft Dynamics AX combines APEX's various businesses in the shoe trading industry with the powerful functions of ERP. It has achieved full integration of financial operations in procurement, inventory, materials, planned production, quality management, sales and financial costs, accounts receivable, accounts payable and banking, general ledger and other operations, and implemented approval workflow and expense reimbursement, ensuring the integrity, accuracy and timeliness of the enterprise information flow. It not only solved many problems in the business and management of various departments of the company, but also provided a reliable source of data for the enterprise to make strategic decisions in the market, realized agile manufacturing and enhanced the competitiveness of the enterprise.

Business Benefits

The successful launch of Microsoft Dynamics AX will closely integrate APEX's people, finance, materials, production, supply, marketing and the corresponding logistics, information flow, capital flow, approval flow, etc. to achieve resource optimization and sharing, greatly enhance the company's management capabilities and work efficiency, greatly enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises, and lay a solid foundation for APEX's future rapid development.

"The way to build a long-lasting business is to innovate and accumulate, and the choice of Microsoft Dynamics AX platform is a heroic choice.

- Faster customer response and improved customer service satisfaction

- Improved speed of financial closing

- Enhanced vendor payment arrangements and strengthened relationships with vendor partners

- Improved data traceability, reducing significant duplication of effort

- Increased efficiency and improved internal management efficiency

- Improved communication and coordination efficiency between departments

- Implemented standardized application of company products

- Standardized and improved business processes and strengthened system curing

- ERP talent team building

- Accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting data were effectively improved

- Quality statistical reports can be collected in a timely and effective manner

- The production time of financial reports was shortened

- Report types are richer and data analysis dimensions are more diverse