Rakon

Founded in 1967, Rakon now employs approximately 500 staff in New Zealand. The company’s management team recognised the need for a flexible and fully-integrated, company-wide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution and chose SAP Business All-in-One to improve its ability to manage materials, products, production, quality, sales, finished goods, forecasting and reporting.

Rakon’s Information Services Project Manager, Brent Clarke, said it was imperative that the new system boosted the company’s ability to understand the real costs of production and inventory. “The new system had to provide us with a view into the engineering and production operations within the business."

“The old system, which had worked fine for many years, had trouble coping with the growing business. Every time we went through a stock take, it would take us three or four months to get the final analysis.”

Soltius was chosen to implement the SAP Business All-in-One solution and, driven by a business goal to be live with the new system by the end of the financial year, the initial implementation was completed in just eleven weeks.