Dade Paper Company – Prophix story Operating since: 1939 Head office: Jessup, Maryland Annual revenue: $500 million Number of employees: > 1,000 G/L or ERP: Microsoft Dynamics AX Company website: www.dadepaper.com Company background: A distributor of foodservice disposables, janitorial supplies and equipment, Dade Paper serves businesses throughout the entire Eastern United States, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Dade Paper has nine distribution branches and seventeen sales support centers located strategically throughout the Eastern United States, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. The company has over 1000 employees, 275 delivery vehicles, and over 1 million square feet of warehouse space. Business problems that led to evaluating CPM, adopting Prophix: Dade Paper was using Prophix Enterprise and wanted to move onto P11. They had recently upgraded their ERP system to Dynamics AX and requested data integration to Prophix via flat file. New P&L budgeting templates and reports needed to be built to prevent delays with their current budgeting cycle. In addition, Dade Paper’s personnel planning process was long and tedious, causing potential errors in their payroll budget.
Dade Paper Company – Prophix story Benefits: Prophix has provided a flexible and centralized reporting and analytical tool to guide decision making and analysis of financial performance. Specifically, the solution includes: Financial model to streamline their budgeting and reporting requirements Connect data via flat file with their Dynamics AX ERP A personnel planning model which allows them to budget and report payroll-related expenses more efficiently
Supporting data: Life cycle Industry (choose all that apply) ☐ New implementation Implementation date: ________________ ☐ Preexisting customer Original implementation date: ________________ ☐ Existing customer, upgrading YES (upgrading from Prophix Enterprise to Prophix 11 in Q2 – Q3 2014 Original implementation date: Q1 2005 Industry (choose all that apply) ☐ Agriculture, forestry, and fishing ☐ Professional services ☐ Financial services ☐ Retail ☐ Wholesale and distribution ☐ Telecommunications ☐ Healthcare ☐ Utilities ☐ Education ☐ Architecture, engineering, and construction ☐ Life science ☐ Transportation and logistics ☐ Manufacturing YES ☐ High tech ☐ Media and entertainment ☐ Government ☐ Non-profit
Supporting data: Solutions built Capabilities used ☐ Budgeting YES ☐ Automation YES ☐ Forecasting YES ☐ Prophix Mobile ☐ Reporting YES ☐ Data integration YES ☐ Strategic planning ☐ Business modeling YES ☐ Financial consolidation ☐ Microsoft platform integration YES ☐ Analysis YES ☐ Role-based security YES ☐ Profitability analysis ☐ Collaboration YES ☐ Personnel planning YES ☐ Flexible deployment ☐ Project planning ☐ Ad hoc reporting and visualization YES ☐ Revenue planning ☐ Capital expenditures planning ☐ Reporting and analytics (dashboards and scorecards)