Amcor Limited
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Industry: Consumer Products
Company Description: Leading the packaging Industry through innovation, Australia’s Amcor Limited (Amcor) is one of the world’s top three global packaging companies and is the largest producer of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles in the world.
Challenges:
- Running a highly modified, ten-year-old version of QAD Enterprise Applications
- Disparate customizations and processes, which hampered data integrity and visibility
- Multiple modifications which lead to increasing support costs
Solution: QAD Enterprise Applications (version MFG/PRO eB2.1), QAD QXtend, QAD Warehousing
Results:
- Successful upgrade from previous QAD Enterprise Applications version
- Improvements to supply chain efficiency
- Simplified input systems – number of screens reduced from nine to two
- Improved data capture, integrity and accuracy with on-line system
- Tighter integration with legacy financial systems
- Standardized system with minimal modifications
- Coexistence with corporate standard of SAP
