Advanced Systems Integration (ASi) extends Microsoft Dynamics AX functionality with integration of Inventory II for global leader in apparel manufacturing, FFI.
LAKE FOREST, CA – April 20, 2010 – Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. (ASi), a Microsoft Dynamics AX Gold Certified Business Solutions and Learning Solutions training partner, is pleased to announce the release of a new Customer Case Study. This new case study highlights the success of the inventory management solution, Inventory II, with ASi’s high-volume, global apparel manufacturing customer, Fortune Fashions Industries, FFI.
FFI, the largest domestic screen-printer, produces over 100,000 garments per day – more than 35 million per year. Operating in the fast turnaround and low-margin world of retail fashion, FFI needed a solution that could manage their complex inventory and warehousing operations and enable capacity and manufacturing planning. The out-of-the-box inventory management solution tracked every movement of an item before and after manufacturing. For FFI, which is constantly moving a high-volume of inventory, this resulted in hundreds of thousands of transactions per month. Batch routines for inventory settlement and product costing took days or weeks to run. FFI CIO, Paul Arlin explains in the study, “We run our business by the numbers. If we can’t complete the reconciliation, we don’t know what our margins are.”
FFI turned to ASi for help. ASi recommended Inventory II, a third-party solution from FSB Development. ASi has trained and specialized in Inventory II and recognized the perfect fit for FFI. Inventory II extends the standard Microsoft Dynamics AX inventory module to provide inventory analytics, accurate costing, and intelligent reservation controls. The module’s innovative database ‘watermarking’ technology allows it to scale to very high transaction levels and enables companies to run analytics, reporting, and master scheduling routines during daily operation, with no degradation in performance even on very large databases.
Inventory II has dramatically increased the performance of FFI’s ERP system, delivering faster reporting and queries while reducing the demands on hardware and software. With production planners querying the “on-hand” inventory tables many times each day to allocate or reserve merchandise to upcoming productions, even incremental improvements in performance can add up. Arlin comments in the case study, “Given the number of inquiries that hit our systems, being able to get that information in front of the user quickly and accurately is extremely important,” “Inventory II makes our system much more efficient and consistently shaves seconds of every transaction, day after day. We now spend less time waiting and more time working.”
For complete details or a copy of the case study or for more information on Inventory II, please visit the Advanced Systems Integration website www.advancedsystemsintegration.com.
About ASi: Advanced Systems Integration, Inc. is a Microsoft Gold Certified Dynamics™ AX Partner founded in 1991 that delivers comprehensive enterprise class applications that improve customer relations, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. ASI also offers industry specific extensions integrated with Microsoft Dynamics AX platform. ASI uses its industry focus, enterprise software domain expertise and transparent agile implementation methodology to provide its clients an enterprise class solution that is implemented properly the first time. ASI is based in Lake Forest, Calif and has sales offices in strategic locations throughout the United States. Please visit the company’s web site at www.advancedsystemsintegration.com
About Fortune Fashions Industries: Founded in 1991, Fortune Fashions Industries is a global leader in the manufacturing and distribution of branded, licensed, and private label apparel and accessories. www.fortunefashions.com
FSB Development: The developer of Inventory II, FSB Development has more than a decade of experience working with Microsoft Dynamics AX. FSB Development is a certified Microsoft Independent Software Vendor. www.fsbdev.com
About Microsoft Dynamics AX: Microsoft Dynamics AX is an adaptable business management solution that enables companies and their workers to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like and with familiar Microsoft Office software, with comprehensive features that help automate and streamline business processes, and connect users with global customers, business partners and subsidiaries in a way that helps drive business success. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax/default.mspx
About Microsoft: Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com
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For more information on this release, please contact:
Lisa Aschenbrenner
Marketing Manager
Advanced Systems Integration, Inc.
(949) 597-2170
lisaa@advancedsystemsintegration.com
