Customer Information

VIsion

Be on the leading-edge and remain the benchmark in our fields of activity.

Mission

Make life easier for our customers and to meet the industry's most rigorous standards by offering our services, expertise and products.

Project Background

Sonepar is a key player in the B2B distribution of electrical products, solutions and services in China. Committed to better serving its large customer base in this fast-growing market, the company has divided its main business into three divisions and one business unit: Building & Power Distribution, Industrial Automation, Telecom Services, and Oil & Gas & Shipbuilding Ancillary Business Units, with nine operating companies in China.

Entered the Chinese market in 2000 and has continued to grow in size over the years. Achieved annual sales of approximately RMB 4.9 billion at the end of 2020 through strategic acquisitions and independent growth.

With the development of the company's business, in order to respond to the market more quickly and to better meet customer needs, there is an urgent need to establish a set of advanced, efficient, secure, and sustainable development requirements of the enterprise resource management system solution. To realize the seamless integration of data in sales, procurement, planning, warehouse, finance and other departments, and to break the information silos within the enterprise.

"Compliance is the responsibility of everyone at Sonepar, every day, for everything."

--Sonepar CEO

Philippe Delpech

Solutions

Sonepar has always been committed to compliance management by "full commitment and compliance in all things". In this ERP project, business process compliance is particularly prominent. IWS utilizes Dynamics AX2012 platform to fully integrate sales management, procurement management, inventory management, financial management and other business processes, and in the business process, it is tightly focused on compliance. From quotation to payment, a variety of compliance factors are systematically managed, such as credit control, delivery date, price, order quantity, etc., while automating the process approval.

Flexible credit control management:

Through Dynamics AX2012 platform, we can realize the credit control control from the three major aspects of credit assessment, credit granting and credit control, and also combine the management of basic credit, temporary credit and release grace period to control the business process of quotation, order and shipment.

Fine control of cost and profit:

According to the business needs of Sonepar China ED, the price and cost management system will focus on the three major elements of price, cost and profit. In the whole design program, the price side to achieve the price and agreement management, the cost side to achieve the guide cost special cost management.

Business Benefits

The successful launch of Microsoft Dynamics AX2012 closely integrates Sonepar's people, materials, supply, sales and the corresponding logistics, information flow, capital flow and business flow, realizes resource optimization and sharing, greatly improves the company's management capability and work efficiency, greatly enhances the core competitiveness of the enterprise, and lays a solid foundation for Sonepar's future high-speed development.

The powerful functions of Microsoft Dynamics AX2012 system realize the full integration of finance and business in sales, purchase and inventory, and the full integration of information technology. Various management reports provide strong support for management's decision making. It not only solidifies the business operation process for the enterprise, but also provides great support for the development of the enterprise.

▪ Eliminates information silos and improves customer satisfaction.

▪ Optimized and solidified the operation of enterprise business processes, standardized business operations, and reduced reliance on personnel thinking.

▪ Increased productivity and greater improvement in internal enterprise management efficiency.

▪ Visualization, accurate, fast and multi-dimensional report analysis.

About Microsoft Dynamics AX2012

Microsoft Dynamics AX2012 provides manufacturing and distribution companies worldwide with a comprehensive business management solution that helps them manage their broad business areas more efficiently, including retail data and financial analytics, with a special focus on achieving comprehensive 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

More Information

For more information on Microsoft products and services, please call Microsoft Customer Service at 800-820-3800 or visit Microsoft China's website at http://www.microsoft.com/china/dynamics

For more information about Microsoft Gold Partner IWS, please visit their website: http://www.iwstech.com