What is PhyleTec - Supply Chain Management and Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP)?
PhyleTec - Supply Chain Management is a business application software system that
integrates all business processes and systems into one seamless and efficient framework.
Woodland Paper has selected PhyleTec - Supply Chain Management as the software technology
to enable our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project. ERP consists of common
global processes and systems integrated across all business units within Woodland
Paper. With PhyleTec, all key Woodland Paper processes, such as Vendor Manufacturing,
Order Management, and Product Delivery are linked together across business units.
As a result, Woodland Paper can provide greater speed, accuracy, and service in
meeting the needs of you, our customers.
Why is Woodland Paper Implementing PhyleTec - Supply Chain
Management?
Woodland Paper is introducing PhyleTec - Supply Chain Management for the following
reasons:
- To support our strategic objective of operating excellence
- Operating Excellence will improve our ability to better meet your needs,
both in the execution of our business processes to serve you and the way we use
and manage information about our business with you.
- To enable our people to focus on adding value to you,
our customer - A key outcome from this implementation will be more robust
and efficient processes which will empower our employees and reduce administrative
tasks. We will have more time to add more value to your company rather than handling
mundane data entry tasks, tracking down information, and thus, delaying decisions.
- To update and integrate our IT systems - While
our current business processes and systems have served us well for many years, we
feel that they are not robust enough nor capable of providing the global standardization
of information and integration we need going forward.
- To facilitate easier integration of new businesses and
acquisitions - As we continue to grow by developing and acquiring new
businesses, PhyleTec will allow us to easily integrate these new businesses into
our existing businesses. Thus, as we continue to grow with you, we will remain in
a position to continue to provide you with excellent service.
When is Woodland Paper implementing PhyleTec - Supply Chain
Management?
Over the past year, Woodland Paper has been preparing for the implementation of
the most current release of PhyleTec - Supply Chain Management (Version 3.5) and
other systems in a phased roll-out approach across all of our business units. We
are currently scheduled to roll out the new SCM common processes and systems in
our Paper Merchant and Distribution business in the first quarter of 2007.
The processes involved in the transition to PhyleTec include the following:
- Sales
- Paper Management
- Order Entry
- Purchasing & Warehousing
- Purchasing & Direct Shipments
- Receiving & Put-away
- Inventory Management
- Picking & Shipping
- Customer Invoicing
- Vendor Payments
- Returns Management
- Collections (AR)
- Employee Compensation
- Financial Management
What will change as a result of Woodland Paper implementing
PhyleTec - Supply Chain Management?
When we implement this system, you will see the following changes:
- Improved quoting time.
- Improved speed of access to information about your account and account history.
- Ability to access account and paper program information over the Internet.
- More detailed quoting, acknowledgment, shipping, and invoicing documentation.
- Increased ability to focus more on bringing cost savings and value to your organization.
How will you be impacted as a result of this implementation?
Please continue to contact, inquire and order our products and services as you have
in the past. Nothing will change in respect to order entry today. However, you will
start to see benefits to your company in respect to increased speed, accuracy, and
service that we provide to you on a continuous basis.
If questions arise, please contact immediately your Woodland Paper Service Representative.
They have been trained to answer any questions that you have pertaining to this
new endeavor.