BloApCo is known for its durable, high-quality material handling fans, shredders, and trim cutters, which are relied upon by many Fortune 100 manufacturing companies—along with numerous other businesses around the world—for waste management applications. The organization was founded in 1933, and with its strong track record and upward trajectory, it’s safe to say BloApCo is on the rise.
To ensure success in the next exciting chapter in the business’s history, BloApCo leadership decided to invest in an enterprise technology upgrade, migrating Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP WorkWise Edition to the cloud and updating the software to its latest version for all the newest features.
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“We’re a financially strong company with an outstanding reputation, a great product for the marketplace and a good market share, and we’re using that as a platform to continue growing,” said Frank Tejera, CEO at BloApCo. “Hence the importance of using the most efficient and effective ERP in the market.”
With growth among its most important goals, the business required unified data and a reliable system of record. Meanwhile, the on-premises deployment of an older version of the ERP was underutilized and not fully implemented, with other solutions being applied to execute processes that Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP WorkWise Edition could accommodate if the software was upgraded.
“We’re combining a number of our systems and consolidating them into WorkWise,” said Randy Kirby, vice president of supply chain at BloApCo. “The new version is allowing us to consolidate external systems that we’ve relied on in the past, so we’re able to convert those over for greater efficiency.”
Identifying the Pain Points
When asked what the business expects to gain from its ERP cloud migration and version update, Tejera didn’t hesitate in answering and needed only one word.
“Efficiency,” he said. “That’s the main driver that initiated our internal discussions.”
BloApCo’s existing technology had been pieced together over the years, and each solution operated separately, with no integration between them. Many processes were run in a time-consuming manual fashion, and the organization didn’t have the agility it needed to react to changes and disruptions. “We also wanted more reporting capabilities—we’ll get better, easier reports out of the new version, accessible wherever we like,” said Kirby. “We won’t have to log in through VPNs—we can go to the cloud and get our reports on the go.”