Samuel Lawrence implements SAP system
By Brian Carroll -- Furniture Today, October 7, 2001
Phoenix — Samuel Lawrence joined an elite group of companies when it flipped the switch on a SAP enterprise resource planning system, a project that took eight months to implement.
Thomasville, Century and Valdese Weavers are others on the short list of industry companies that have switched to SAP.
Other large companies have gone with either Oracle or J.D. Edwards for their ERP software.
SAP makes it possible for the case goods resource to use electronic data interchange and pull all suppliers into the same database, including those in the Far East.
Later this year, the company is planning to add Web-based access to the database for its major customers.
"This was a major, significant investment for Samuel Lawrence," said George Revington, president and chief executive officer. "We want to streamline every process we work with."
SAP implementation, which began Jan. 1, replaced Samuel Lawrence's legacy system. The successful implementation was made possible by commitment throughout the organization, Revington said.
"This wasn't a top-down deal," he said. "We kept it simple and it was implemented by the users."
Successful implementation is achieved by about half of those companies who attempt it, according to SAP.
Other companies that have switched to a SAP system include Steelcase, Kimball Inds. and Meadowcraft.
—As first reported in eDaily
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