ERP Case Studies

Animal Supplies (Wholesale) Pty Ltd is one of Australia’s most successful animal products and medicine suppliers with 10,000 plus product lines encompassing everything from dog food and pet beds to flea treatments and horse wormers. The rapid expansion and growth had created the need for a business software with strong financial, inventory and analytical capabilities.

WPC provides, calibrates, services and repairs the high quality industrial process control equipment for many of oil and gas companies in Western Australia (WA). As WA’s resources industry grew over the subsequent years WPC’s business boomed too. For WPC, the result of this growth was that its simple start-up business systems were no longer suited to the organisation’s more comprehensive information requirements.

North Sydney Leagues Club Limited (Norths), commonly known as norths, was founded in 1955. The company evolved over time; however, until 2009, they was using spreadsheets and a twenty-year old accounting system. Norths wanted to replace these spreadsheets, four general ledgers and the outdated financial system with an integrated business intelligence and financial system.

Crest Air Conditioning Pty Ltd has been successfully supplying and installing air conditioning systems throughout Sydney since 1980. Having outgrown its current software system, Crest needed to find an alternative solution capable of supporting the company’s expanding job costing, service management, finance and detailed reporting requirements.

Kidney Health Australia has been promoting kidney and urinary tract health to consumers and the medical profession for over forty years. The not-for-profit organisation wanted to integrate and streamline systems to better support business objectives. At the samr time, it needed to develop closer relationships and more targeted communications with donors, sponsors and other supporters.

Cash Converters is the world’s largest second hand dealer with more than 140 stores in Australia, representation in 21 countries and a total network of about 600 stores worldwide. This growth has resulted in a complex reporting structure involving inter-company and multi-country dealings. Cash Converters needed an integrated solution with multi-company/cost centre accounting to manage its complex reporting structure.

Abergeldie group of companies was established to provide complex civil infrastructure and building contracts throughout eastern Australia. The company grew at approximately 30 percent year-on-year in the last decade. Abergeldie’s need was to establish systems and processes capable of supporting its rapid growth which was beyond the capabilities of its existing financial and information management systems.

MyChemist is a privately owned group of Australian companies comprising more than 200 stores nationwide and brands such as Chemist Warehouse, MyChemist, Discount Vitamin Warehouse, My Beauty Spot and the online trader, e-Pharmacy. A major software upgrade was necessary for such a steadily-growing and complex organisation that was using legacy DOS-based warehousing and enterprise resource planning [ERP] applications.

Established in 1995, Best Bar is a leading Australian steel reinforcement supplier, delivering a diverse range of reinforcement solutions to the civil, commercial and residential construction industries. Best Bar needed to automate and speed inventory handling to reduce miscounts, increase accuracy and enhance customer satisfaction.

GBCA, a not-for-profit organisation, was established in 2002 to promote green building programs, technologies and design practices. Property industry interest in sustainability information saw GBCA’s turnover grow from just $450,000 in its first year to approximately $9.5 million in 2011. Due to such rapid growth, GBCA’s financial needs were becoming much more complex than the existing financial management software could cope with.