Beltservice Corporation Rich Bradt missouri
exploreengage elevate Member Showcase Who We Are and What We Do Company Video – old but relevant Version, Modules 3 rd Party Products Production Environment, Number of Users Environments Future AX2012 Plans AX2012 Implementation – my perspective Questions?
exploreengage elevate missouri Member Showcase - Beltservice Who We Are and What We Do World’s leading distributor of custom conveyor belting We sell our products through a global network of industrial distributors. We don’t sell directly to the end user Located in Earth City, MO
exploreengage elevate missouri Member Showcase - Beltservice Who We Are and What We Do 10 North American Locations 350+ Employees 24 Field Sales Representatives 48 Inside Sales & Marketing 200 Shop/Production
exploreengage elevate missouri Member Showcase - Beltservice Types of conveyor belt Heavy duty belts Agriculture belts Food handling belts Incline belts Packaging/warehouse belts Magnetic detectable belts Air permeable belts Light duty belts
exploreengage elevate missouri Member Showcase - Beltservice Dynamics AX 2012 R2 US Branches Dynamics AX3 – Mexico, Canada What Modules We Use AP AR GL Bank Inventory Management Sales and Marketing Procurement/Sourcing Master Planning Production HR Expense Management Project Management What Modules We Don’t Use (yet) Enterprise Portal CRM 3 rd Party Products Scanworkx Wireless Warehouse AxTend – Credit/Shipper Atlas – data transfer Halo – Data Warehouse, Financial Reporting Arbela Security Management Customization Axcut
exploreengage elevate missouri Member Showcase – Beltservice Production Environment 2 AOS servers/2 db servers 3 Citrix Servers for branch access 302 Enterprise user licenses/126 functional user licenses 7,683 Active Customers 1,497 Active Vendors 22,203 Items ~85,000 Sales orders annually ~96,000 Sales quotes annually ~10,500 Purchase orders annually Transactions in 3 countries US Canada Mexico Partner – Arbela How Long Implemented AX3 in 2005 Live 8/2012 AX 2012 for U.S. branches Mexico and Canada Branches on AX3 Future Implementations Canada implementation – Targeting October 2015 Mexico implementation – Target TBD Enterprise Portal
exploreengage elevate missouri Member Showcase - Beltservice IT Department Total Employees – 6 3 Programmers, 1 Sr. System Admin, 1 Tech Support, and 1 Director Environments DEV TEST PREPROD PROD Shell – test hotfixes Security 45 Security Roles Change process Manager requests IT Director/AX Project Team authorizes Programmed/Tested in DEV Moved to Test – User Acceptance Staged in PREPROD Transferred to PROD – once per month
exploreengage elevate missouri Member Showcase - Beltservice AX2012 Implementation – My Perspective (joined in August) What did we do right: Full-Time Project Manager & Sr. Management support Great project management Business Departments took ownership (not an IT project) Correct mix of outside programming help Didn’t over rely on partner Planned and implemented AX infrastructure well Worked through adversity (learning/personnel changes) What did we do wrong: Easy to say – but more training in branches Wireless network – more testing
exploreengage elevate missouri Member Showcase - Beltservice Questions?