KSG Leiterplatten GmbH

Location: Gornsdorf, Saxony, Germany

Industry: Electronics/Industrial

Company Description: KSG Leiterplatten GmbH (KSG) is one of Germany's leading manufacturers of printed circuit boards. The company, formed as Elektroger?tewerk Gornsdorf in 1956, was run as a state-owned company until being re-privatized in 1993. KSG currently employs around 360 people.

Challenges:

• Needed improved coverage of materials management and purchasing
• The company had to completely realign its organizational structure
• Existing infrastructure needed to be replaced by an integrated solution

Solutions: QAD MFG/PRO eB2.1; QAD EDI eCommerce, QAD Release Management, QAD QXtend

Results:

• Significant reduction in production times
  
• Improved response to customer requests
  
• Ability to handle both single-unit and serial production
  
• Exact mapping of work schedules and bills of material
  
• Data consolidated in one system
  
• Fast, easy access to data
  
• Ability to quickly adapt, sort and filter data and export it to Excel