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| TO EXPAND STRATIX ERP DEPLOYMENT - May
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the largest full-line service center group located in Europe, has selected
the enterprise software STRATIX from the
metal industry software specialist Invera.
The scope of the project covers 60 service centers in the United Kingdom
and Europe for over 3,000 users in a multi-lingual, multi-currency environment. |
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CORUS INTRODUCTION
Corus Group was created in October 1999 through the merger of British Steel
and Koninklijke Hoogovens, and consists of mills and service centers, that
produce and distribute steel products to customers worldwide. |
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"We carefully measured the benefits using
key performance indicators (KPI) to make sure STRATIX gave us
that performance leap forward we needed".
David Bright
IT Director, Corus Group |
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| Corus Service Centers, part of Corus Group with sales of
over $2 billion, process and distribute products such as coil, sheet, structural
sections, bar, tube, and plate products. They provide a variety of processing
services such as slitting, leveling, shearing, sawing, and a range of multi-step
plate processes. |
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CORUS UK
Corus began the evaluation process with a pilot site located in Bristol,
UK after a thorough software and technology evaluation of the product.
Following a detailed benefit analysis of STRATIX at the pilot site, the
enterprise system was approved in 2003 for all the UK service centers.
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David Bright, the IT Director for the group, comments "We carefully
measured the benefits using key performance indicators (KPI) to make sure
STRATIX gave us that performance leap forward we needed".
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The project included replacing the 16 different order processing systems
with a single software solution across all product groups with the strategic
objective to reduce IT management costs and improve the productivity,
profitability, and customer satisfaction within all business units.
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| Corus has now completed the UK and Ireland Service Centre
project combining over 40 service centers on one consolidated database with
over 1,500 users to benefit from the scalability of STRATIX. |
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CORUS BUILDING PRODUCTS UK/SERVICE
CENTRES EUROPE
With the success of the STRATIX project in the UK, in August 2006 Corus
increased the scope of the project to include it's Panels and Profiles businesses
in the UK and Metal Service Centers in Europe - a combined total of 60 service
centers and over 3,000 users. The European Service Centers are located in
France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain. |
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| In Europe, Corus have also retained InterAccess, a European
consulting company to assist with the implementations in Europe. InterAccess
had been selected due to their language skills and exceptional track record
of implementing systems for small to medium size businesses. |
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| Veer Vasishta, Chairman of Invera, comments "The success
of this project is the result of a great working relationship with Corus
and the privilege of working with an exceptional Corus technology and implementation
team." |
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Invera has been providing metal service center enterprise software (ERP)
and Internet systems for over 25 years. Their products are used by more
than 12,000 users at over 500 sites in the United States, Europe, Mexico,
Canada and the Far East.
http://www.corusservicecentres.com
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