Sheppard Industries is a bicycle designer, contract manufacturer and owner and distributor of the popular Avanti brand, as well as distributor of the global Specialized brand to the AvantiPlus retail bicycle store network consisting of over 80 stores throughout Australasia. Under the deal, Sheppard Industries will deploy the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System along with Lawson Business Intelligence suite and related maintenance and services.

Sheppard Industries also sells and distributes casters and wheels across New Zealand for use in furniture, as well as in industrial and medical equipment such as hospital trolleys. The company has additional offices in Christchurch, Melbourne and Perth.

“Ultimately, the key business driver behind our decision to implement the Lawson M3 solution was the need to have an integrated solution to improve supply chain management and procurement, and to achieve better results in stock turn,” said Paul Schnell, Sheppard Industries CFO.

“We also wanted a system that would allow us to reduce our levels of stock and reduce our numbers of out of stock. This, in turn, will allow us to deliver a better level of customer service at lower cost of working capital.”

The contract will see Sheppard Industries implement Lawson M3 modules including Finance, Supply Chain Planning, Enterprise Mobility, Demand Planner, and Sales and Marketing Automation. Up to now, the company has relied on a Quanta UNIX-based legacy system, which was highly modified and designed more for the needs of a retail organisation rather than a sophisticated distributor running a complex value chain.

Sheppard Industries is currently operating on a Sun Microsystems hardware platform. However, this will be replaced by a central IBM iSeries platform for the new Lawson M3 solution, which will be located at the company’s headquarters in Auckland.

Meanwhile, Lawson Software has also signed a contract with Auckland-headquartered footwear brand, Kumfs. Under the contract, Kumfs will acquire the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System along with Lawson Business Intelligence and related maintenance and services.

Kumfs has been designing and making a wide range of women’s shoes since 1946 and currently has 40 stores New Zealand and Australia.

Under the new agreement, Kumfs will deploy the Lawson M3 solution for the fashion industry, incorporating Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Warehouse Mobility modules.

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