Old Meets New as William Clark Selects FUEL as Its New IT Partner
William Clark selects FUEL to deliver the latest SAP Business One financial management and manufacturing system.
William Clark, situated in the rural village of Upperlands at the foot of the Sperrin Mountains, is one of the world’s oldest companies specializing in the manufacture of traditional fabrics. Since 1736, it has served a variety of customers, from furnishers and interior and fashion designers to users of traditional linen fabric and innovative industrial and technical fabrics.
Kevin Devlin, Production Director at William Clark, commented: “William Clark have set enterprising growth targets for the next few years and needed to put in place an ERP solution that could develop as the company continues to grow. This ERP management solution also needed a stable IT infrastructure platform to be placed on. FUEL, in our opinion, was the company that demonstrated to us the required expertise, tenacity, and determination to partner us on our journey.”
Managing and keeping control of that growth is key to the company’s success, and therefore great emphasis was put on finding the best IT infrastructure and software management solution to deliver the required results. Following a rigorous assessment of the top ERP solutions on the market, the directors of William Clark awarded FUEL – High Performance IT the contract to implement a complete IT infrastructure refresh, including a new cutting-edge server running SAP Business One. The SAP Business One solution will take advantage of the SAP HANA in-memory database, providing instantaneous reporting from the manufacturing, customer service, and financial functional areas. This will allow William Clark to take its customer service to new levels while also refining its manufacturing processes to produce the highest-quality product in the most efficient manner.
Joe Walsh, Director of FUEL, commented: “I am delighted, having embarked on this journey with William Clark, that FUEL and the SAP Business One solution have been recognized as the solution best suited to support the directors and management team as they plan and build for the future of the company.”
Every initial sales inquiry will now be tracked through the sales cycle, the manufacturing process, and the finance reporting, all the way to the finished order. With the expected increase in manufacturing activity and throughput on the shop floor, SAP Business One on the SAP HANA platform will capture live data at any point in the manufacturing process and deliver it to the production team. And by design, SAP Business One makes this live information instantly available to every department in the company.
The clear and understandable user interface will support a speedy adoption of the new solution by both staff and management, and keep William Clark on track to reach its business growth milestones.
You can also read FUEL’s press release about the contract.
