Sunrise Kitchens : Integrated ERP

For its order processing, inventory, and finance needs; Sunrise Kitchens, a

manufacturer of kitchen cabinets was relying on various packages. It was using a

Paradox (Corel) based application called Cabinet Manufacturing System (CMS) to

handle its manufacturing requirements. This was a single user system. 2020

design, standalone cabinet design software, was also being used mainly for

designing kitchen cabinets and preparing initial quotes to prospective

customers. QuickBooks, another standalone system was used for all its financial

requirements. Other solutions used were — Ardis, a specialized software for

optimizing cutting of rectangular shapes, and Aspen, used for programming of CNC

machine at Sunrise. There was no system available for inventory control.

The company realized the need for a centrally hosted Enterprise Resource

Planning solution, something that would provide business process efficiency

within the organization. Sunrise Kitchens partnered with Atna Technologies, to

implement Microsoft Dynamics NAV 4.0 at its headquarters in Surrey, Canada and

at the three subsidiaries in Surrey and Coimbatore, India. The company claims

that the new system has helped to achieve full integration of its systems and

processes in addition to the multi-user mode solution.

This has reduced the cycle time for order flow from sale to manufacturing

considerably. Besides integrating business processes, the new deployment

provided faster 'order to production cycles' and multi-user environments. The

company also claims that it has optimized inventory management by 30 %.