SCT Implements ADAGE ERP Solution at Borden Cheese in Four Months;
Dominant U.S. Dairy Co-Op Cites SCT's Best Functional Fit for Process Industry
MALVERN, Pa., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- SCT (Nasdaq: SCTC) announced the successful completion of an ADAGE implementation in only 4 months at the Borden Cheese division of leading U.S. dairy cooperative Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. (DFA). This rapid implementation at Borden led to a contract with DFA to license ADAGE as its enterprise-wide process ERP solution at 50 locations across the US. The enterprise contract, one of SCT's largest, was signed in SCT's first fiscal quarter that ended December 31, 1998.
DFA is the dominant U.S. dairy co-op and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO. It markets 36 billion pounds of milk per year, and offers an extensive line of milk and cheese products, including the Borden brand name. When DFA bought the Borden business unit from parent company Borden Foods Corp. it faced a tight deadline for setting up a new computer infrastructure with a team of new IT managers.
A hardware infrastructure had to be set up within 90 days and an ERP package implemented in five months. The system would support 50 employees in Columbus; 50 at the company's manufacturing plant in Plymouth, Wisconsin; and 40 traveling employees.
For the ERP software, Borden's wanted a product specifically designed for process manufacturing. IS Director Alan Turley considered ERP software from bigger vendors, including SAP, but didn't like the fact that those companies serve a large number of industries.
"SCT is focused on consumer packaged goods and food companies," Turley said. "We believed their implementation could be done in a short period of time, and it was."
The successful implementation at Borden Cheese, among others, convinced DFA. Over the next two years, DFA will deploy ADAGE to more than 450 users running on Microsoft Windows NT and utilizing the SQL Server database, version 7.0.
"When we decided to employ an enterprise-wide ERP solution at DFA, ADAGE offered the best functional fit for our industry, and had many successfully implemented customers in the process industry, including our own Borden Cheese division," said Joel Clark, vice president of Accounting and Information Systems at DFA. "After an extensive evaluation process, we are convinced that the Microsoft NT and SQL 7.0 database environment will serve us well."
SCT markets ADAGE for use on Microsoft NT and SQL Server and continues to prove that platform's robustness in manufacturing production environments. SCT's software engineering group, which uses SQL Server as its primary development platform, has performed testing with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, and found very positive results. SCT is ensuring that SQL Server 7.0 with ADAGE will be a seamless migration for customers.
"DFA's selection of the ADAGE solution, running natively on SQL Server and Windows NT, is an important validation of the strong competitive advantage that the Windows technology framework can provide," says Marcus Schmidt, industry marketing manager for manufacturing at Microsoft Corp. "By delivering the necessary tools for improved decision making, our combined technology offers a flexible enterprise solution tailored for the process industries that can provide a rapid return on investment and the ability to grow with an organization."
ADAGE is an object-oriented, fully graphical enterprise resource planning (ERP) system focused on the process and manufacturing and distribution industries. ADAGE employs a series of dynamic workflows composed of industry-specific objects and business rules -- rather than traditional software modules -- that models key business processes across the supply chain.
Through its ADAGE ERP and FYGIR supply chain planning products, SCT is the first to offer a comprehensive, single-vendor Process Supply Chain Management (P/SCM) solution that meets the special requirements of process manufacturers and distributors in industries including food, beverage, and consumer package goods.
SCT, headquartered in Malvern, Pa., is a leading provider of client/server, mission-critical, enterprise software and a series of information technology services for manufacturing & distribution, government, higher education, and utilities. The company provides long-term information and technology solutions and is a recognized leader in outsourcing. SCT has approximately 3,600 employees and serves more than 2,500 clients worldwide. For more information, visit the SCT Web site at sctcorp.com.
SOURCE SCT Corporation
CO: SCT Corporation; Borden Cheese; Dairy Farmers of America
ST: Pennsylvania, Missouri
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02/09/99 14:00 EST prnewswire.com |
