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Case Study: Solar Plastics Streamlines Operations with Made2Manage ERP

From Consona Made2Manage/Intuitive
 

 

By the mid-1990s, software solutions had gained a foothold among successful manufacturers seeking to stretch their competitive advantage, cut costs and improve profit margins. Worldwide availability of products and services has also dramatically increased the pressure on all manufacturers to deliver the right products at the right time for the best possible prices.

Mid- and niche-market manufacturers were forced to pay attention, and many of these market leaders also became converts of enterprise business systems.

Solar Plastics, Inc. is a privately owned manufacturer of rotationally molded plastic products in Minneapolis, MN. In 1996, Solar Plastics' management team realized the company had to start identifying its reporting processes better in order to continue growing successfully.

Since 1964, the company has been a worldwide leader in rotational molding custom-engineered parts. Solar Plastics' manufacturing plants in Minneapolis, MN, Delano, MN, Davenport, IA, and Sioux City, IA employ more than 225 people in total and generate custom rotational molded plastic products for clients covering 20 major markets.

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