Dayton Superior (daytonsuperior.com), a manufacturer and distributor of commercial concrete construction accessories and chemicals, had a critical need to improve visibility into quotes/orders and enable accurate demand forecasting. It had outgrown its ERP system, and bridged gaps with custom software, [...]
Doble Engineering Co. (doble.com) manufactures and distributes high-voltage testing equipment for power companies. Doble had an unsupported contract management solution and a manual service process. They needed a single platform to manage their customer lifecycle, and ForeFront delivered with Salesforce [...]
Elo (elotouch.com), one of the world's leading providers of touchscreen products, struggled to manage its repair depot using its SAP ERP. There were frustrating, unresolvable issues, and effective process control and basic data access were nearly impossible. To fix it, [...]
Like many companies today, a global consumer audio products company wanted to transform its ecommerce capabilities. The first step: Eliminate limitations and customizations by replacing its Microsoft Great Plains ERP with SAP S4/HANA. The second step, done simultaneously: Re-platform its [...]
Huhtamaki North America (www.huhtamaki.com/en-us/north-america), a maker of disposable tableware and foodservice packaging, lacked effective sales communication, consistent processes and customer insight. ForeFront built a Salesforce Sales Cloud solution that consolidated customer information into one location, improved pipeline and sales operations [...]
Flexco (flexco.com), a manufacturer of conveyor components, parts and tools, desperately needed to upgrade its ecommerce capability for sales reps, distributors and customers. The company's ecommerce solution was virtually unusable: 70% of U.S. orders had to be manually entered — [...]
Shorr Packaging (shorr.com) management understood that old technologies, spreadsheets, paper processes and standalone applications were holding the company back. The challenge was clear: modernize virtually every phase of operations. Existing systems had to be replaced, new capabilities had to be [...]
Flexco (flexco.com), a manufacturer of conveyor components, parts and tools, also offers customers detailed assessments of their conveyors in the field. Flexco service agents used a home-built application for these inspections. The application, however, had several frustrating deficiencies. Using Salesforce [...]
A manufacturer of truck caps and tonneau covers hurriedly built a dealer hub and a consumer ecommerce website using the same set of B2B commerce tools. The result: two solutions with functionality issues. To fix these issues, a replacement solution [...]
Many manufacturers struggle to produce accurate, timely forecasts in a constantly changing, increasingly complex business environment. But the ability to rapidly forecast (and re-forecast) is critical to success. We asked one of our manufacturing experts, VP of Manufacturing Practice Chris [...]
