Steve Crum – MIH Associates IC-Scan Bar Code Scanner Interfaces for Sage CS/3 and Sage Enterprise ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

MIH – the Background Warrington & Wokingham Offices Reseller since March 2000 40 Staff, 30+ Experienced CS/3 people Worked with Tetra Products since 1985 Only work with Sage Enterprise Product Based on YTD spend with SES MIH is the 4th Largest Reseller (Oct 1st – May 31st) ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

MIH – our customers Friskies (Spillers Petfoods)– the largest CS/3 User anywhere – major development and rollout of Bar Code Scanner Interfaces now underway with MIH, Fin Goods and Raw Material control Time Computers – the largest Sage Enterprise User anywhere – 500+ Concurrent Users on NT with SQL Server database ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

MIH - Customers Currently on Support with MIH: 46 Companies on Direct CS/3 Support with MIH e.g. Sun Valley, Gold Medal Travel,Macdonald Hotels, BASF,UCAS,Cowley etc etc Currently working with 30+ Companies not on Support with MIH but using our products and implementation services e.g. Vimto, Vernacare,Autotrader, Compaq, Universe Foods etc etc All MIH Customers are users of Sage Software ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

MIH Suppliers Sage Enterprise Solutions Version One Rochester Information – Business Objects Sage Options Frontrange – Goldmine CRM Orbis Intelliware ProAccess / Daboom ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

IC-Scan – Bar Code Scanning Our involvement started in 1995 with the development of interfaces to work with Batch Based Scanners to help with Stock Take in C2000 to be precise 3:00am Saturday morning – 3days behind the Stocktake deadline! This developed to allow Scanners to support virtually all C2000 Stock movements Good – but clearly identified the need for Real-time Stock Processing ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

IC-Scan Bar Code Scanning 1997 found low cost RF Scanners and our strategic developments started. Our Aims: Easy to Use at Operator Level irrespective of the degree of control needed on stock management Trap errors wherever possible Immediate and Real-time update of CS/3 data 100% Accurate Stock ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

What makes up an IC-Scan solution? Hardware Worthington data – good value Symbol – excellent quality – not cheap Feedback SFDC / Time & Attendance Hardware Software MIH Scanner Interfaces for CS/3 Implementation Support The startpoint – as normally lots to sort out before we can really get on with it ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

Hardware Worthington Data American Manufactured – RF Scanner £1350, Base Station £650 Symbol – Market Leader – huge range of Hand Held devices – Scanners being used by Friskies circa £3000 each. ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

Software Interfaces available from MIH Stock Taking Bin to Bin Transfers Inter Warehouse Transfers Purchase Order Receipt Sales Order Picking Sales Order Despatch Confirmation ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

Software Interfaces available (ctd) Works Order Issues Works Order Completion Works Order Dekit WIP Tracking Time & Attendance (Under development) ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

Implementation Support Hardware and Software is not the only part of the solution Normally lots of work cleaning up the data and revising the working procedures Detailed involvement needed to get this off the ground - needs top level commitment ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

Some sample customers Piolax in Burnley Presspart in Blackburn Suppliers to the Automotive Industry Accuracy and quality of supply essential Product Identification and tracking at all stages of production. Presspart in Blackburn Deep Drawn Metal Pressings to Pharmaceutical,Automotive Industries ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

Some sample customers Presspart (ctd) M Barnwell in Birmingham Stock Visibility / Accuracy essential Traceability essential Operational efficiency M Barnwell in Birmingham Distribution of Fluid Sealing products Sales Order Picking – high volume low value Efficiency of Pick process ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

Some sample customers Penlon in Abingdon Nenplas in Ashbourne Manufacturers of Medical Equipment Accuracy for delivery promises essential Nenplas in Ashbourne Manufacturer of extrusions using thermoplastic materials. Accuracy of Stock a pre-requisite Efficiency of picking – high volumes ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

Some sample costs Sampler / Pilot option Stock Taking Using 1 Scanner Hardware Worthington RF & Base £2000 MIH Stock Take routines £2000 Implementation & Training £1500 Complete Scanning and WIP /SFDC Hardware £ 10-100000 Software £ 10-40000 Implementation Support £ 5-20000 ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

So to the demo Works Order Issue of components with Serial Numbers Stock Taking of items with Serial Numbers The key being that we want easy processing of the stock movement whilst retaining absolute integrity of the core data. ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001

The Next step If interested please give your Business Card to me or one of my colleagues – and we can meet and discuss your own specific needs Any Questions? Thanks ISTUG Meeting 20th June 2001