1. Crawford Electric Supply – Prophix story
Operating since: 1990
Head office: Houston, Texas
Annual revenue: $500 million
Number of employees: Unknown
G/L or ERP: Eclipse
Company website:
Company background:
Crawford Electric Supply Company, Ltd. operates as a wholesale electrical distributor in Texas. It offers electrical and lighting products to commercial and residential contractors. The company was founded in 1986 and is based in Dallas, Texas. It has locations in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. As of January 8, 2007 Crawford Electric Supply Company, Ltd. is a subsidiary of Sonepar Distribution US, Inc.
Business problems that led to evaluating CPM, adopting Prophix:
Financial Reporting – Very manual, spreadsheet based system that was time consuming, prone to error, and difficult to maintain. Specific areas of concern included:
Data integration of eclipse GL data
Report generation and distribution by branch
Managing prior period adjustments
Maintenance of reporting system (ex. Adding/reorganizing branches & natural accounts)
Data analysis

2. Crawford Electric Supply – Prophix story
Their Prophix solution:
Prophix deployment focused on setting up a system that accommodated the main financial reporting process:
Automated data import process that aggregated raw data into established hierarchies and reporting rollups
MDX statements and statistical calculations avoided redundant template formulas
Remove and Import process solved the prior period adjustments issue
Using alternate hierarchies to view branches by ‘Age’ as well as by ‘Size’ provided better decision making capabilities
Generated financial reports at both the consolidated level and by branch
Future plans:
Budgeting
Forecasting
Personnel planning
Revenue planning

3. Supporting data: Life cycle Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ New implementation YES
Implementation date: Q2 2014
☐ Preexisting customer
Original implementation date: ________________
☐ Existing customer, upgrading
Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ Agriculture, forestry, and fishing
☐ Professional services
☐ Financial services
☐ Retail
☐ Wholesale and distribution
☐ Telecommunications
☐ Healthcare
☐ Utilities YES
☐ Education
☐ Architecture, engineering, and construction
☐ Life science
☐ Transportation and logistics
☐ Manufacturing
☐ High tech
☐ Media and entertainment
☐ Government
☐ Non-profit

4. Supporting data: Solutions built Capabilities used
☐ Budgeting Planned for phase 2
☐ Automation YES
☐ Forecasting Planned for phase 2
☐ 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
☐ Collaboration YES
☐ Personnel planning Planned for phase 2
☐ Flexible deployment
☐ Project planning
☐ Ad hoc reporting and visualization YES
☐ Revenue planning Planned for phase 2
☐ Capital expenditures planning
☐ Reporting and analytics
(dashboards and scorecards)