Dynamics NAV For Auto Parts Manufacturer

Client Overview

The customer is a global leader in manufacturing world-class power transmission belts for both industrial and automotive OEMs, as well as an international network of industrial and automotive aftermarket distributors. Headquartered in Japan, with manufacturing plants in 17 countries, they have been leading the technology and development of all types of power transmission products for 110+ years.

They use the latest technologies to create a state-of-the-art, highly automated, programmable construction systems. They are an award-winning OEM supplier with over 100 major quality awards from various automotive leaders. The motto is to provide customers with the highest quality products, competitive price, service and support levels that exceed expectations.

Business Challenge

The client used SAP as ERP but was concerned about high license and operational costs and had usability issues. The staff encountered difficulties with the utility of SAP modules.

Solution Highlights

Gateway Digital was in collaboration with this customer for Enterprise Platform Development. We implement an ERP system which automated sales, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing and financial business processes using Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP solution.

We started the project with consulting, AS-IS analysis and identification of the reasons for failure in previous SAP execution. Our subject matter experts (SMEs) presented the gap-fit analysis to the customer with the implementation road-map. Thereafter a Centre of Excellence (COE) had been set-up wherein the deployed team implemented the ERP covering the following features:

• Captured and managed all the transactions related to manufacturing, purchase, sales and finance
• Automation of production activity through the system, for example- preparation of LOT card including barcode generation, production result input, etc.
• Purchase and Sales Management with their validations and checkpoints
• Routine document prints enabled via Navision
• Financial report generation in Navision
• Journals/Vouchers/Memos Management
• Get up-to-date financial information through the NAV finance management system
• Ability to manage Account Charts
• Multi-currency support in Indian localization
• Achieved speedy implementation of GST (Goods and Service Tax ) structure
• Inventory value accounting and revaluation based on cost allocation

Gateway Digital was also involved in data migration from the client’s existing financial and inventory data to the ERP System. We provided training to their employees for using the ERP system and conducted user acceptance testing sessions. Subsequently, the solution was finally extracted for production use.

Benefits

• Reduction in time and efforts of employees work on Manufacturing, Accounting, Sales, Purchase and Store
• Sales analysis at a single click with NAV
• Better visibility through informative dashboard analytics and statistics
• Better usability and increased user-efficiency
• Increased accuracy of transactions and automation of processes
• Management was able to identify loopholes in processes like scrap generation, incorrect bill of material for the product etc.
• Intuitive and user-friendly system for end-users