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Harting Limited 

www.harting.co.uk

Background

The UK subsidiary of the Harting Group. Haarting manufacture and distribute a range of industrial connectors to the electronics industry.

Project

Documentation of user requirements and packaged software selection.

Scale

1 UK location, 45 employees, £15m turnover.

Scope of requirements

CRM including estimating and quotations, light manufacturing, logistics, EDI, finance and Group reporting.

Issues

Legacy hardware - software selected had to run on existing hardware infrastructure.

Reactive telesales - fast sales desk quotations and order taking environment.

Light manufacturing - introduction of more comprehensive manufacturing application software in order to handle increase in light manufacturing.

Purchasing - sophisticated purchasing requirements planning facilities required.

Business intelligence - comprehensive sales analysis by product, product group, customer, sales person, region, etc.

 

Summary

Following the documentation of detailed user requirements an ITT was produced and issued to a pre-qualified sector specific list of suppliers. Following evaluation of the responses and demonstrations of the shortlisted solutions, a packaged based ERP solution was selected and implemented.


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