Global project rollout case study

Company Profile

Business Segment

Manufactuing

Organization presence
US & Canada, Europe, EMEA
Integration

i-series, MAPICS, AS400, CRM, PIM

About

Leading powersports automotive manufacturer headquartered in Medina, Minnesota, United States. The company manufactures motorcycles, snowmobiles and ATVs, military and other recreational vehicles. The company has several challenges managing a vast catalogue of spare parts and accessories suppliers and demand and distribution channels managed by very few personnel – that demands to have accurate and reliable information from various lines of business applications such as Dynamics AX 2012, Dynamic 365 Finance & Supply chain ERP, MAPICS, AS400 and ToolsGroup.

Business Requirement

In 2018, Customer decided to get into subsidiary based joint venture to assemble vehicle parts. Primary business is assembly of vehicle components & motorcycles for export to vehicle assembly facilities located around the world thus engages in various supply chain and sourcing activities throughout Southeast Asia. Facilities were constructed from scratch hence IT infrastructure was setup from ground up.

Rollout Method

Customer is already running global instance of Dynamics 365 ERP in United States, Canada and Europe region managing manufacturing and supply chain. To accommodate the new requirement, a new legal entity was setup in existing Dynamics 365 ERP and financial ledger accounts, posting accounts, Fixed assets, Bank details, payment methods, Inventory management/ PIM were setup. Region specific data such as tax codes, Inco terms, charges, customers, suppliers were setup along with primary and secondary language translations updated for all user interface text and mouse pointer contextual help texts.

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