1. Atlantic Packaging – Prophix story
Operating since: 1945
Head office: Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Annual revenue: > $250 million
Number of employees: > 1,500
G/L or ERP: Baan + 2 others
Company website:
Company background:
Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. manufactures, distributes, and sells paper and plastic products in North America. It offers graphic and structural design solutions, point of purchase displays, and litho laminated corrugated boxes; pre-printed linerboards, paper towels, bathroom tissues, paper napkins, away from home paper products, corrugated containers and products, plastic bags, plastic films and sheets, and paper bags; and private label, containerboard, and newsprint products. The company also provides inventory management, structural design, testing, graphic and prepress, product sourcing, and logistic support solutions. It serves fast food service, grocery store, drug store, hardware store, and department store retail markets, as well as automotive and beverage markets.
Business problems that that lead to their recent Prophix update:
Budgeting in Prophix. Reporting budgets and actuals.
Existing customer. Using 5 different systems. A BI tool that they want to cancel. Data warehousing system that allows their IT group to generate reports. Uses Baan plus 2 other ERPs.
Wanted a sales reporting cube that could give them daily reports.
The VP, Sales wants to drill into their data on a detailed level.

2. Supporting data: Life cycle Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ New implementation
Implementation date: ________________________
☐ Preexisting customer
Original implementation date: ________________
☐ Existing customer, upgrading YES, Q1 2014
Original implementation date: Q4 2001
Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ Agriculture, forestry, and fishing
☐ Professional services
☐ Financial services
☐ Retail
☐ Wholesale and distribution YES
☐ Telecommunications
☐ Healthcare
☐ Utilities
☐ Education
☐ Architecture, engineering, and construction
☐ Life science
☐ Transportation and logistics
☐ Manufacturing YES
☐ High tech
☐ Media and entertainment
☐ Government
☐ Non-profit

3. Supporting data: Solutions Capabilities ☐ Budgeting YES
☐ Automation YES
☐ Forecasting
☐ Prophix Mobile
☐ Reporting YES
☐ Data integration YES
☐ Strategic planning
☐ Business modeling YES
☐ Financial consolidation
☐ Microsoft platform integration
☐ Analysis YES
☐ Role-based security YES
☐ Profitability analysis (planned)
☐ Collaboration YES
☐ Personnel planning YES
☐ Flexible deployment
☐ Project planning
☐ Ad hoc reporting and visualization YES
☐ Revenue planning YES
☐ Capital expenditures planning
☐ Reporting and analytics
(dashboards and scorecards)