Customer Information

Electricity Facilities Guangri Guangzhou Co., Ltd. (EFG), is a joint venture state-owned holding enterprise with Taiwan, Hongkong, which was founded in October 1998 and established by Guangri Stock. As a high-tech enterprises,the plant area has about 60,000 square meters large with garden type. The company has seven series of products, including LED lighting and drive series, power module series, electronic and electrical series, control cabinet series, operation series, elevator car decoration series, and elevator special wire and cable series.

EFG takes "customer first, keep improving; company with integrity, service for lifetime" as their key values. EFG has received a high degree of recognition from society. EFG has been selected as the main supplier and long-term partner of Hitachi Elevator, Otis Elevator, Guangri Elevator and York air conditioner for several years.

Project Background

EFG focuses on the supply of elevator accessories and assembly parts for Hitachi Elevator, Otis Elevator and other well-known enterprises, and actively strides forward to the new energy industry, creating a domestic well-known brand of EFG photoelectric industry. The company has set up branches in Shanghai, Chengdu and Tianjin. With the continuous growth of the enterprise in recent years, the enterprise is facing new management challenges. Due to the isolation of business system and financial system, as well as other plug-in systems, EFG Information Center has no choice but to maintain and upgrade many systems. The management can't get accurate cost, inventory management level and other data in time, resulting in the delay or error of management decision. The existing system can't expand the supply chain business to customers / suppliers due to the architecture problems. With the rapid development of the company's business today and in the future, this will become a stumbling block. The management of the company makes decisive decisions, vigorously promotes the construction of EFG informatization, takes "one platform" as the basic point, and "financial and business integration" as the center to promote the construction of ERP system.

Solution

EFG uses Microsoft Dynamics AX to achieve sales management, procurement management, product data management, box head management, R&D management, warehouse management, production management, master planning, quality management, group finance, internal company transactions and other business capabilities.

Product data management

Combined with the characteristics of elevator manufacturing industry and the unique operation mode of Guangri Group. Materials are classified according to their properties, and material codes / specifications are automatically generated. AX flexible BOM designer is used for BOM design. For external customer supplied BOM, batch import method is adopted to quickly generate engineering BOM. BOM data change is managed strictly according to ECN process;

Box head job number / box number management

The elevator industry is a highly customized industry, and the delivery of products requires the parts and accessories to be packed in different wooden cases according to job number / box number. EFG uses the material dimension of job number to realize the whole process tracking by job number. The repeated creation of material code is avoided;

Sales quotation management

Finance can quickly calculate the material, labor and cost of products through BOM cost calculation, and automatically generate the lowest sales price with appropriate profit. When quoting, the system will automatically compare the quotation with the lowest sales price, and different approval processes will be used in different situations.

Sales reconciliation Management

Import the statement data provided by the customer into AX, and the system will automatically perform matching reconciliation. After the matching is successful, sales invoice can be issued. The manual work and mistakes are reduced.

Supplier platform management

EFG makes full use of the SharePoint platform to communicate and manage suppliers, including:

1. Suppliers can download the approved purchase orders through the platform and confirm the delivery date;

2. The supplier enters the inquiry price through the platform and checks whether the inquiry is accepted or not.

3. The supplier prints the delivery note through the platform, and EFG can directly call the delivery note in AX to confirm the receipt.

Production plan management

The planned production order and planned purchase order are automatically generated by MRP operation, and then converted into formal documents after confirmation by the planner. After the customer provides the updated pull plan, you can import the pull plan data and automatically update the corresponding sales order / production order according to the job number.

Production Kanban management

Bar code management is adopted for production completion and warehousing, and the production progress is dynamically displayed on LED Kanban to strengthen the execution of on-site management.

Manufacturing cost sharing management

The manufacturing cost is automatically allocated to the corresponding production order according to different cost centers, which ensures the accuracy of the cost to the greatest extent.

Group financial management

Adopt the group financial control operation mode to ensure that all branches adopt the same accounting standards. Automatic generation of consolidated financial statements, financial statements to achieve fast, efficient and accurate.

Microsoft Dynamics AX extends the production planning and supply chain of EFG to customers and suppliers. Combined with the powerful functions of AX system, it realizes the comprehensive integration of financial business in the aspects of procurement, inventory, materials, planned production, quality management, sales and financial cost, accounts receivable, accounts payable, bank and general ledger. All kinds of management reports provide strong support for the management's decision-making. It not only stabilizes the business operation process and data integration management, but also provides great support for the development of enterprises.

Business Benefits

The successful launch of Microsoft Dynamics AX closely integrates EFG's labour, finance, material, production, supply and marketing, as well as the corresponding logistics, information flow, capital flow and approval flow, so as to realize resource optimization and sharing, greatly improve the company's management ability and work efficiency, greatly enhance the core competitiveness of the enterprise, and lay a solid foundation for the rapid development of EFG in the future.

EFG only focuses on helping customers create value and help customers through professional products and services. The Dynamics AX platform helps EFG manage the production of specialized products and provide high-quality services.

▪ Eliminate information island and improve customer satisfaction

▪ Optimize and solidify the operation of enterprise business process, standardize business operation, and reduce the dependence on personnel

▪ Improve work efficiency and internal management efficiency

▪ It has successfully opened up the two ends of the supply chain and realized the seamless connection of the business end

▪ Automatic coding and BOM configuration improves the accuracy of BOM

▪ Accurate MRP demand calculation improves the inventory turnover rate and reduces the inventory of dead materials

▪ Accurate, fast and multi-dimensional financial statements

About Microsoft Dynamics AX

Microsoft Dynamics AX provides manufacturing and distribution companies worldwide with a comprehensive commerce management solution that helps them manage their broad business areas more efficiently, including retail data and financial analytics, with a special focus on achieving integrated real-time visibility across the supply chain. This integrated, customizable solution creates business value through the following benefits:

▪ Enhancing business insight to help make sound decisions and providing visibility into all types of data managed by the business

▪ Extending data and key processes to strengthen critical relationships with customers and partners, regardless of the systems they use and regardless of their level of complexity

▪ Maximize technology return on investment through smooth integration with existing enterprise ERP systems and Microsoft product families

▪ Optimize and automate processes to increase productivity and optimize the supply chain, thereby reducing costs and increasing profitability

▪ Customize to meet current needs, easily capitalize on new business opportunities, and more easily meet individual customer requirements to outperform the competition

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