Richard founded a manufacturing company in 1985 that grew to 90 employees by 2006. However, the company's overhead costs increased significantly, reducing margins. Richard implemented Open ERP, an open-source ERP software, to integrate business processes across departments. This reduced costs, increased visibility and control, and allowed the company to grow efficiently while improving employees' workflows.

1. The Open ERP effect... Richard's Success

2. Richard is a brilliant manager...

3. he founded his manufacturing company in 1985...

4. In 2000 he reached 45 employees

5. In 2000 he reached 45 employees ...to fulfill 4500 orders a day = 100 orders / employee

6. This is George, Richard's CFO

7. George likes his Accounting software ...

8. But he wastes hours each day on...

9. But he wastes hours each day on... Creating invoices based on data from their logistics application

10. But he wastes hours each day on... Synchronizing timesheets with his analytic accounting

11. But he wastes hours each day on... Encoding Refund Invoices based on emails from after-sales services

12. But he wastes hours each day on... Preparing consolidated reporting for Richard

13. But he wastes hours each day on... Pushing documents to their internal Document Management System

14. But he wastes hours each day on... Processing payments through bank interfaces...

15. So it is for all other employees on their respective applications.

16. Richard's IT infrastructure exploded in a few years...

17. In 2006 they reached 90 employees ...but they fulfill only 5000 orders a day = 55 orders per employee

18. The overhead makes them fulfill 45% fewer orders per employee than they did 6 years ago ! That growth makes Richard's margins decrease !

19. Tina is the HR Manager Her business life became difficult when the company grew to 90 people in 2007.

20. So she asked Richard for new software to manage employees' leave and holidays .

22. Richard thought it was time to go for a completely new strategy for their IT structure. So, he integrated : They activated the “holidays” module only for an easy and quick integration.

24. The new infrastructure looked like this... Annual Maintenance: 45.000 $ Annual Licenses: 39.000 $

25. Tina was so happy with her HR management system that Richard decided to use other modules from Open ERP.

26. They first activated the CRM modules to replace Ms. Dynamics CRM Annual Maintenance: 45.000 $ Annual Licenses: 39.000 $

27. They first activated the CRM modules to replace Ms. Dynamics CRM Annual Maintenance: 40.000 $ Annual Licenses: 33.000 $

28. Then, they activated modules for manufacturing, sales, BI and projects Annual Maintenance: 20.000 $ Annual Licenses: 13.000 $

29. Then, they activated modules for accounting and human resources mgt. Annual Maintenance: 12.000 $ Annual Licenses: 7.000 $

30. And they did the same for all other services in 2008. Their new infrastructure looks like......

31. A fully integrated management system: Annual Maintenance: 10.000 $ Annual Licenses: 0 $

32. Now Richard is a happy manager... He r educed licenses and maintenance costs to 1/8 of their previous cost !

33. ... he has a system that can evolve with his company's needs... And employees' recurring tasks have been reduced by 40% due to integration and automation.

34. And all of this while keeping and improving his visibility and control of all the enterprise processes

35. And Tina likes his new way of working... She has a unique and integrated system for the shared calendar, the vacation management, the planning, ...

36. This allowed the company to grow quickly, while keeping and controlling its efficiency

37. And Richard was able to launch new off-shored organizations in only 2 weeks . He controls all offices from one system .

38. And to extend their new way of working to suppliers and customers, Richard activated Open ERP's portals

39. ... all customer and supplier processes are fully integrated with the Company.

40. There are thousands of companies like Richard's ... If you want to be one of them, check: http://openerp.com To discover Richard's customers, check: Customers in Action