AFF Group Gains Access to Critical Data for Growth

Video transcript: AFF group - Success Story of Acumatica Cloud ERP

AFF Group is a textile manufacturing and distribution company that does three types of products: vinyls, foam, and laminated goods. And all primarily in the seating segment. So if you sit on a seat, whether it's an office seat, a golf cart, or a car, that's our type of product. We have almost a half a million square feet of facility here and we were hand counting and managing things by a spreadsheet. There was no such thing as safety stocks, lead times weren't really discussed or being monitored. What Acumatica did was bring us to speed and trained us on how to properly run our supply chain. So we were able to put everything into the system, print out the barcodes, print out the shipping labels. We were able to have an inventory structure. We've reduced our waste by twenty five percent. We've also increased our production capability by thirty percent just by knowing when to manufacture what. We've been very fortunate to have Blytheco helping us facilitate this process, helping us think forward, not just in terms of what we need today, but what we need in the future. What they've been able to do is build dashboards and reports that we find useful that may be unique to us, whether it's what to set our safety stock levels at, what to set our service levels at. I was able to take basically what we call the mess and create a good reporting package for each of our departments to really analyze where we're at, where we're going, and to really strategize our growth. Previously it was very one-sided, one point of contact. Now with Acumatica CRM, having all of that information at a few clicks of a button, it is seamless communication from anyone customer facing and allows them to build a relationship with AFF Group and not with a particular employee. Dashboards has changed everything. Our sales grew twenty one percent this past year. The reason for that was because we're selling smarter. Before we used to outwork a problem, but now with Acumatica we outthink the problems. Being able to make the right decisions at the right time really does come down to having the right data. That's what we have with Acumatica. It is growing with us. It is adapting to our needs. We are in an old business, an old industry, textile manufacturing, and we're doing it in new way with partners like Acumatica because the digital transformation allows us to stay relevant for this century and beyond.