Golder-Electronics completed implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009

The Golder-Electronics company works at the Russian market since 1993 and holds a leading position among the companies on production, sale, service small household, audio-video equipment and consumer goods. In a portfolio of the company – brands of VITEK, Röndell, Maxwell, Coolfort. Put forward the active growth, expansion of regional dealer network and start of new product lines before the company of a task of optimization of key business processes and to addition of functionality of the operating corporate information system. According to the results of the tender held in 2010, the management of Golder-Electronics selected the international consulting company Columbus.

Specialists of Columbus less than in a year developed and implemented a complex of solutions for more effective management of financial, trade and purchasing and logistic transactions based on the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 platform. According to Anatoly Karashchuk, the Chief information officer of Golder-Electronics, as a result of implementation of this system the Golder-Electronics company organized transparent and operational management of inventory stocks at all stages of a supply chain, simplified procedures of accounting for sales, purchases, settlement with partners and also provided more accurate planning and control of the budget. The complete solutions from Columbus proposed by Golder-Electronics support the necessary level of scaling and also flexibly adapt under the changing requests of the highly competitive distributor market.

In particular, for solving of tasks of sales departments and service of retail networks the system of online reservation of the commodity nomenclatures which are in a warehouse and under the order is implemented. Along with it management tools reserves are available as formation and tracking of requests under contracts taking into account conditions and payment schedules, and. The company purchased more flexible and powerful functionality for import of requests of retail partners for sale of goods which allows to create unlimited number of templates for their accounting.

Golder-Electronics had new opportunities for end-to-end supply chain management. Solutions on the basis of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 provided to the organization operational data acquisition on the placed purchase orders and sales of goods with a possibility of control of their execution, including, managements of cash flows and pricing. Also the additional functionality became available to accounting and control of loads. As a result of implementation purchasing department and logistics Golder-Electronics refused use of tables of Excel for internal accounting of purchasing activity, fixing and tracing all arriving data in a new system. Level of a remaining balance of Inventories in a warehouse became more predictable, the reporting under the internal movement of goods is kept.

For settlement with suppliers of the company the module "Accounts for Payment" which built well-defined rules of formation and approval of requests for outgoing payments is used, provided full financial control of a funds expenditure and budget management of the enterprise in general. The Golder-Electronics company completely passed to electronic forms of document flow and payment that simplified tracking of a current status and execution of requests.

Specialists of Columbus also organized conducting calculations at the level of legal entities of partners that provided operational drawing of accounts and more accurate tracking of debt. The financial division received convenient tools for accounting of postings of the ledger with due analytics of accounting on trade purchasing transactions. The mechanism of distribution of additional overheads and settlement with partners became more transparent. Also within the project multiple currency accounting, including calculation of exchange differences for the fixed date was implemented.

The chief information officer of Golder-Electronics Karashchuk Anatoly adds: "In departments of sales, purchase and logistics, in management of finance the labor input of a number of routine transactions decreased. The discipline and responsibility of employees improved. We also fix reduction of total number of the errors connected with a human factor. Now Golder-Electronics is going to improve a system regarding the organization of financial statements, the business analysis and budgetary forecasting. In addition in plans of Golder-Electronics to integrate a new ERP system with the solution JDA for category management and also to implement the CRM solution".