PANalytical

Location: Alemelo, the Netherlands

Industry: Electronics

Company Description: PANalytical is the world's leading supplier of analytical instrumentation and software for X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF).

Challenges:

• Growing complexities in the company’s information and communication (ICT) infrastructures
• Too many customized applications – over 1000 existed
• Managing data: accumulated 17 different databases and multiple versions of its QAD software distributed across its 33 sites
• Impossible to optimize and standardize business processes

Solution: QAD Enterprise Applications, QAD QXtend

Results:

• Cut number of databases from 17 to 1
• Reduced unique external documents from over 350 to just 15
• Decreased customizations from 1000 to 30
• Eliminated the manual purchase orders and sales orders
• Automated invoicing and AR/AP
• Integrated forecasting for supply centers
• Trimmed number and cost of IT resources