SYSPRO ERP Driving 20% Shipment Growth at Newbasis


Manufacturer/Distributor Replaces Epicor; Gains Record-Breaking Performance

COSTA MESA, Calif. - January 31, 2008 - SYSPRO, a provider of visionary ERP for the manufacturing pragmatist, announced today that its manufacturing and distribution customer, NewBasis, has boosted shipments by more than 20% after replacing Epicor software with SYSPRO in 2006. NewBasis is a manufacturer and distributor of top quality, highly durable plastic, fiberglass and polymer concrete enclosures.

NewBasis executives say that limitations with their prior Epicor solution made access to critical product, customer and sales demographics difficult. The company reviewed several replacement options, including the large enterprise resource planning (ERP) industry leaders, and selected a full suite of SYSPRO business software. Via the STARS market-leading implementation methodology from SYSPRO, NewBasis was fully installed in just over two months. Today, the SYSPRO solution accommodates up to 50 simultaneous NewBasis users.

Most of NewBasis' manufacturing is done at its California headquarters in Riverside, though multiple satellite facilities account for an important percentage as well. Moreover, many products are also inventoried at select warehouses throughout the country. This exacting multi-site coordination involving both the manufacturing and distributing of products is a growing trend that has blurred the line between production and shipping.

With several different locations, the company uses SYSPRO for tracking inventory by product and by warehouse, enabling management to gain an instantaneous picture of the inventory status at each location to plan production and shipments. "We have had record-breaking growth in our monthly shipments, as much as more than 20 percent improvements per month," said Christopher Larkins, president, NewBasis "While there are a number of factors contributing to this, we would not have approached these levels had we not selected SYSPRO.

"We are a growing visionary company, so we needed to incorporate new procedures to accommodate our emerging needs in inventory tracking, engineering control, costing and emerging distribution needs," Larkins said. "SYSPRO streamlined processes, yet the solution is tailored to our favored views and internal practices."

Immediately following implementation, Larkins said the company was able to rein in costs and get distributed, role-based data access. "We have a much better handle on the true costs of our product, including factors like raw materials and customized manufacturing," he said. "Plus, by gaining better visibility on production scheduling and work in process, we have greatly improved our customer expectations and raised customer satisfaction."

SYSPRO's more thoughtful approach to adopting new technology, such as web services and SOA platforms, reflects the desires of its buyers, who are driven by business needs, and not by the latest headlines. SYSPRO calls its buyer landscape "PragmaVision" (TM) -- pragmatic, but visionary ERP executives that are driven by a desire for smart, but aggressive market growth.

About NewBasis
NewBasis, headquartered in Riverside, Calif., manufactures and distributes top quality, highly durable plastic, fiberglass and polymer concrete enclosures for use in a wide variety of industries, including telecommunications, power/electric, public works, water/landscaping and construction. A pioneer in developing the first pre-cast concrete manholes and reusable steel forms, the company later moved into the emerging plastic, fiberglass and polymer concrete enclosure market. NewBasis has numerous patents for infrastructure design breakthroughs during its 60-year history

About SYSPRO
Since its inception in 1978, SYSPRO has been delivering state-of-the-art business solutions to some of the world's leading companies. As a global leader in the production of world-class ERP software, the company now caters to the specialized needs of 12,000 licensed companies in more than 60 countries worldwide. SYSPRO is marketed globally through regional territory distribution centers and a global reseller network in the US, Canada, Africa, Asia Pacific, Australia and the UK.

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