James Walker Group Streamlines Global Consolidation, Analysis and Reporting
Infor PM MPC Removes Manual Data Entry Process and Enables Accurate Financial Reporting of Fifty Global Sites
Birmingham, UK - Feb 22, 2007
Infor, one of the largest global providers of enterprise software, today announced James Walker Group, a global manufacturing organisation specialising in materials technology, has gone live on Infor PM MPC, a performance management solution to improve and streamline financial reporting and the integration of financial information.
PM MPC will now provide James Walker Group with a centralised, web-based performance management system for users across its fifty global sites. PM MPC will provide a single, integrated financial reporting system along with the ability to monitor budgeting processes using financial modelling and analysis for each of their business departments.
“James Walker Group has experienced tremendous growth over the past several years leading to several disparate ledger systems requiring time intensive, manual re-keying of data,” said Nick Low, Group Finance Manager at James Walker Group. “Infor PM MPC provides us with a single tool eliminating the redundant processes and improving the efficiency of our financial reporting and consolidation.”
For James Walker Group, the collection and reporting of financial and sales information involved the manual integration of several, complex spreadsheets, often prone to human error. PM MPC now enables the company to automate this process, removing discrepancies in data and providing real-time budgeting information, leading to accurate and timely reporting.
Chris Harman, Regional Vice President, Infor, comments:
“We’ve already established a great relationship with the team at James Walker due to the combined mutual effort in going live in October 2006. In an increasingly competitive market place, all businesses need to ensure they have the most accurate and efficient reporting processes in place and this is something we will help the James Walker Group to achieve.”
About James Walker Group
James Walker Group is a dynamic global manufacturing organisation that supplies a vast range of products and services to virtually every sector of industry. State-of-the-art skills in materials technology — particularly relating to elastomers, polymers, composites and engineering plastics — are central to the group’s success. Being a global supplier to so many sectors demands an international manufacturing base, plus highly efficient sales and distribution operations. The worldwide family of companies has ten production, engineering, distribution and customer support sites in the UK, and a further 40 spread across Continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, SE Asia, South Africa and the USA.
For more information, visit http://www.jameswalker.biz/jwco/
About Infor
Infor delivers fully integrated enterprise solutions, as well as best-in-class standalone products that address the essential challenges its customers face in areas such as enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, customer and supplier relationship management, asset management, product lifecycle management, financial management, performance management and business intelligence. With more than 8,100 employees and offices in 100 countries, Infor provides enterprise solutions to more than 70,000 customers. For additional information, visit www.infor.com.
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