Toppan Interamerica Achieves Success with
JD Edwards World and AS400 Solution
Challenges Faced
Toppan Printing Company was founded in Tokyo,
Japan in 1900. Toppan Interamerica Inc. (TIA) was
established in historic McDonough, Georgia in 1988.
Toppan Interamerica provides North and South America
with the finest quality decorative papers in the
world. Toppan produces an infinite number of designs
for the laminating industry as well as specialty
foils and films. The company emphasizes personal
service and responsiveness and its goal is to
provide unsurpassed customer satisfaction. Toppan is
proud to bring its rich printing heritage, global
design leadership and a century’s worth of knowledge
and dedication to the American marketplace. Detailed
analysis of Toppan’s IT infrastructure began with
confirmation that its legacy systems were Y2K
compliant. Jay Verenakis, Toppan IT Manager,
indicated that once that bridge was crossed,
decisions had to be made as to what infrastructure
would support the growth that the company had
forecast for the coming years. Key criteria were:
- Maintain AS400 hardware as foundation for
any new software, based upon its solid
performance and cost-effective history
- Form software foundation that had solid
financial transaction and reporting capabilities
- Integrate distribution transactions
seamlessly into financial foundation
- Enable SCADA manufacturing functionality to
be added when needed
- Allow potential integration of third - party
products for niche applications
The Solution
In addition to the technical and functional
requirements that Toppan had, going forward it was
looking for local support and a scalable solution.
It had a relatively small support staff, and needed
both hardware and software platforms that were
extremely reliable, as well as having the ability to
keep up with strong business growth plans.
The JD Edwards World software solution fit all of
its requirements perfectly. World financials were
well known for their stability, solid performance
and scalability. The integrated World Distribution
Suite, which includes functionality for Sales Order
Processing, Inventory Management and Procurement
Management, was also implemented. It merged
seamlessly into the established World Financial
foundation.
CD Group
provided the software and consulting
support that Toppan required to manage its project
to completion. Work continues at the present time as
both CD Group and Toppan are implementing the
manufacturing
functionality.
Benefits Realized
- Implementation of the World solution enabled
Toppan to meet its primary objectives of:
- Establishing an IT foundation that could
scale with its growth
- Utilize the AS400 and its strong track
record of performance
- Integrate financials, distribution,
manufacturing and third-party functionality into
one enterprise-wide system
- Implementing a system that all users were
comfortable with; from transactional processing
to management reporting
In the future Jay indicated that the need to
assimilate complex inventory tracking methods and
multiple distribution centers would be added to the
company’s IT demands. He feels comfortable that the
foundation they have built around the World and
AS400 combined solution will face that challenge.
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