Dating back to WWII, Automatic Power was known as The Lighthouse, Inc. During that time, and ever since, Automatic Power provided aids to navigate the first oil rigs along the coast of Texas. Over the next 15 years, their growth exploded, leading the company to create five seperate entities around the globe. Today, their two main divisions are Automatic Power, Inc. and Pharos Marine.
Recently, Automatic Power, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, evaluated and subsequently selected SAP Business ByDesign. SAP Business ByDesign, SAP's latest on-demand/SaaS based ERP software is designed for rapidly growing midsize companies looking for complete, enterprise-wide integration. Up until now, Automatic Power had been running Infor Syteline.
"We are excited to be signing on with SAP Business ByDesign," said Edward Salazar, IT Admin for Automatic Power. "With SAP's reputation on the table, and with the flexibility offered by a true cloud solution, namely SAP Business ByDesign, we are confident that we have the solution in place that will give us the visibility, efficiency, and ease of use that we so desperately need, guiding us to the next level."
To learn more about SAP Business ByDesign, visit http://nbs-us.com/sapsolutions/sap_bydesign
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Navigator, has been selected as a member of the Bob Scott’s VAR Stars for 2012, a group of 100 organizations honored for their accomplishments in the field of midmarket financial software
Members of the VAR Stars were selected based on factors such growth, industry leadership and recognition, and innovation. Selection is not based on revenue and those firms chosen represent a wide range of size and many different software publishers of accounting software.
“Each year, 100 VAR Stars are picked from the best organizations that market financial software. It is always an honor to recognize those who contribute to the development of our business,” Bob Scott said.
"We are thrilled and honored to accept this award," said Grant Fraser, president & CEO of Navigator. "As an exclusive SAP software partner, focused on the small-midsize enterprise market, we are confident in our ability to deliver the best of of SAP, on premise, on demand, and on device. We further pride and measure ourselves on our ability to make every customer a best run business."
About Bob Scott:
Bob Scott has been informing and entertaining the mid-market financial software community via his email newsletters for 13 years. He has published this information via the “Bob Scott’s Insights” newsletter and website since 2009. He has covered this market for 21 years through print and electronic publications, first as technology editor of Accounting Today and then as the Editor of Accounting Technology from 1997 through 2009. He has covered the traditional tax and accounting profession during the same time and has continued to address that market as executive editor of the Progressive Accountant since 2009.
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Plum Organics, a pioneer and leading provider of premium nutritious organic baby food, toddler, and kind snack food products. Plum Organics is best known for revolutionalizing the baby food category with the introduction of the squeezable pouch, a convenient, lightweight, BPA-free packaging solution. Recognized for their unique culinary-inspired recipes and a modern approach to family nutrition, Plum Organics, is the only brand that offers a complete line of organic products that ensure healthy eating from the highchair to the lunchbox. Plum Orgnics was recently named the Bay Area's #1 Fastest Growing Private Company" by the San Francisco Business Time.
The Project: At a Glance
Countries: U.S.
Users: 50
Solutions: SAP Business ByDesign, SPS Commerce
Integration Partner: Navigator
Services: SAP Cloud Consulting
Project Duration: 4 months
The Project: In Detail
SAP Business ByDesign was selected to support Plum Organics anticipated growth, provide a platform for Plum Organics to integrate key business processes and to improve processes with outsourced manufacturers. Specifically, this project enables integration with SPS Commerce; allowing Plum Organics to receive purchase orders and send out invoices to its customers. Additionally, processes were developed to support Plum Organics three different outsources manufacturing models.
The Delivery Team:
Navigator Business Solutions, the #1 Global Partner for SAP Business ByDesign presented the solution to Plum Organics, and were subsequently heavily involved in the overall 4-month implementation process. Highly experienced SAP team members served as the project managers on this implementation.
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National Gold SAP Partner Integrates With SPS' On-Demand Supply Chain Services to Provide Streamlined Solutions for the SAP Community
SALT LAKE CITY and MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 31, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Navigator Business Solutions, a National SAP Gold Partner and SAP reseller, and SPS Commerce (Nasdaq:SPSC), a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, today announced a partnership to deliver integrated solutions for the SAP community. The joint offering teams Navigator's SAP and SAP Business ByDesign expertise and SPS' on-demand supply chain solutions to help discrete manufacturers, wholesale distributors, professional services organizations and others meet diverse customer trading requirements with ease.
"Navigator is delighted to partner with SPS Commerce," said Grant Fraser, CEO, at Navigator. "By connecting once to SPS, our SAP Business ByDesign customers can take advantage of SPS' integrations to thousands of trading partners worldwide. We've seen firsthand how easy it is to integrate to SPS' platform, and the expertise of its staff to manage the deployment. SPS takes care of the details of EDI and makes it easy for our customers to connect with their supply chain."
Navigator delivers SAP solutions exclusively to small-midsize businesses, including SAP Business One, SAP Business ByDesign, and SAP Business All-in-One. The company has successfully implemented more than 500 SAP solutions. SPS Commerce's cloud-based supply chain services improve the way suppliers, retailers, distributors and 3PLs build their trading partner relationships and manage and fulfill orders with pre-built integrations using 3,000 order management models across 1,500 retailers, grocers and distributors. Navigator and SPS' integrated solution is already being deployed at several SAP organizations.
"Navigator is known in the industry for its vast expertise in SAP, especially SAP's cloud solutions like SAP Business ByDesign," said David Novak, Executive Vice President of Sales & Business Development at SPS Commerce. "We are pleased to welcome them into our partner community and work alongside them at SAP customer sites worldwide. The SPS platform is designed to help partners, like Navigator, enable their clients to successfully integrate and collaborate with their supply chain. Together, SPS and Navigator's integrated solution delivers the flexibility and scalability needed by today's SAP users."
Learn more about the integrated solution at the SAP Business ByDesign Users Conference, November 9-10, 2012, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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WALLDORF, Germany - SAP today announced the second 2012 release of SAP Business ByDesign solution. The cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution is moving to a querterly release cycle is scheduled for availability in 4 additional European countries, namely Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain. This announcement is on the heels of the latest news regarding SAP's largest customer win to do in New South Wales Department of Trade & Investment in Australia.
Additionally, a software development kit (SDK) for SAP Business ByDesign, will enable parters like Navigator (as they have been doing for years with SAP's on-premise SME solution, SAP Business One) to extend solution functionality and build one-off cases for customer-specific requirements. As part of this SDK, SAP will provide developers with various capabilities, including Web services, which will allow the newly created partner to exchange inforrmation with existing SAP or 3rd-party cloud apps. Reusable building blocks - so called templates - will enable partners, like Navigator, to create customer-specific add-ons must faster. Improved usability, included advanced documentation and examples, will help partners understand and start working with the SDK instantly - reducing the need for extensive training. More than 20 partners, with Navigator being one of the first, have already signed the contract to develop and sell integrated extensions to the SAP Business ByDesign suite.
In effort to increase customer interest in SAP Business ByDesign, SAP will also be providing a localization kit to help them fulfill specific local requirements.
Co-innovation with partners like Navigator is a key part of the design process of SAP's cloud solutions. So, what will these changes mean for you - the prospective & current customers of SAP Business ByDesign?
- Additional Services, manufacturing (including lean/Kanban) and distribution functionality: Service industry enhancements, including improved ability to combine both products and services on projects, which links material in sales order to project tasks. Through this extended functionality, SAP Business ByDesign will now be supporting service industries outside ofht eh professional services core. The extended ability to sell-service contracts supporting billing, service level agreements, and executive and escalations are intended to provide greater support for managed services agreements common in IT, media, marketing and other consulting services. Other enhancements for manufacturing and distribution include support for current and future customers that manage and track onsite and in-house repairs.
- Mobile extensibility: SAP now enables users to customize the view for processes within SAP Business ByDesign on their preferred mobile devices. This will further extend the existing standard support for over 15 mobile scenarious, included time and expense, customer relationship management (CRM) and reporting.
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GREENSBORO, NC - As a rapidly growing outdoor & water recreation equipment manufacturer and distributor, Legacy Paddlesports partnered with Navigator Business Solutions to evaluate, select and fully implement SAP Business One. This solution will serve as the nerve center of their quickly expanding business.
Legacy Paddlesports, situated amongst the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina serves as a holding company for several popular, kayak brands, namely Native Watercraft, LiquidLogic, and Heritage Kayaks. Their variety of kayaks are specifically engineering for a vast range of kayaking activities such as white-water kayaking, fishing, sight-seeing, and everyday exercise.
"We discovered SAP Business One late in our evaluation process," said Bill Medlin, President & CEO of Legacy Paddlesports. "We were nearly at contract signing with a different software company when we were approached by Navigator, recommending that we evaluate SAP Business One. What we found was core, out-of-the-box functionality that Legacy Paddlesports management never imagined possible; all at a price that was well within our budget. This coupled with the brand recognition of SAP helped us realize that we were making a sound investment in a solution that would scale with us as we grow for the very forseeable future."
To learn more about SAP's specifically engineering solutions built for small-midsize enterprises, click here or call 877.395.4SAP today!
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LARGO, FL - Seen as the "central nervous system" of their business, BioDerm, based in sunny Largo, Florida, partnered with Navigator Business Solutions to evaluate, select and implement SAP Business ByDesign.
BioDerm, founded in 1990 by Dr. Dennis M. Kay, is dedicated to producing technologically advanced incontinence treatment products that improve standards in healthcare. BioDerm specializes in the development of high volume consumable produces for incontinence care, wound care, and infection control.
"We are very confident that in working with Navigator and SAP Business ByDesign, that we have the all the tools necessary to accelerate our business in ways never thought possible," said Dennis Kay, President & Founder of Bioderm. "Furthermore, we are very excited about the flexibility offered by SAP ByDesign's software-as-a-service model (SaaS) as well as depth of functionality offered 'out-of-the-box,' so that we can start improving our business on Day 1."
For more information about all of SAP's small-midsize business management solutions, built from the ground up on world class best business practices, click here.
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June 7, 2012 - Salt Lake City, UT - Navigator Business Solutions, a SAP Gold Partner and 2011 SAP Partner of the Year, headquartered in Salt Lake City has been named to the Bob Scott’s Insights Top 100 VARs for 2012. The Top 100 are chosen from organizations specializing in the sale and implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning and accounting software.
“We want to congratulate this year's class of Bob Scott's Top 100 VARS,” said Bob Scott, executive editor of Bob Scott’s Insights. The selection is based on annual revenue generated by each reseller. A special report that includes names of the organizations selected for this year’s Top 100 list, ranked by revenue, is available on Bob Scott's web feed.
"We are thrilled and honored to accept this designation," said Bob Dunikoski, SVP of Navigator." Being inducted into such a prestigious group is truly an honor, and knowing that we have the support and confidence of Bob Scott's organization only further legitimizes our mission of working day in and day out to make each and every customer a best-run business. Navigator is standing by to help small-midsize businesses get up & running on SAP more quickly and affordably than ever before."
Bob Scott has been informing and entertaining the mid-market financial software community via his email newsletters for 13 years. He has published this information via the Bob Scott’s Insights newsletter and website since 2009.
He has covered this market for 21 years through print and electronic publications, first as technology editor of Accounting Today and then as the Editor of Accounting Technology from 1997 through 2009. He has covered the traditional tax and accounting profession during the same time and has continued to address that market as executive editor of the Progressive Accountant since 2009.
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We’ve all heard the saying before—timing is everything. But what about when buying an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution? Is there a right time to buy, and how much is at stake if you wait too long?
ERP is a powerful tool for two key business objectives—syncing up the sales and operations teams and making accurate and reliable sales and inventory forecasts. But getting up and running with ERP can be a big investment—both in terms of time and money—so many businesses put it off as long as they can.
For major business decisions like implementing ERP, it helps to enlist the advice of an expert, which I have had the opportunity to do so many times, to discuss the details of implementing an ERP system. In fact, the following questions shed some great light.
How do you know when it's time to implement a full-scale ERP solution?
Simply put, its all about timing for each individual company and each industry, so there is no hard and fast rule on when the right time is. At Navigator, we have seen companies, in countless industries, in stages all across the board decide that they will benefit from ERP. Whether a company is just launching, or in its maturity stage, or even frankly declining - they can use ERP to establish clear vision so to best understand their financial viability and health.
While ERP is a "cure all" solution, there are three common situations that can be resolved with the right ERP system in place.
1. Executives can no longer trust the numbers
Executives rely on sales and inventory numbers to make important decisions about future business moves, and things can take a turn for the worse when those numbers are inaccurate. ERP systems provide real-time, accurate insight into the current state of the business’s financials, so execs can rest assured that the numbers are reliable.
2. Operations and Finance Deparments can agree on a single set of numbers
What if Sales is expected to hit 10M in sales for the quarter, but there is only enough inventory in-stock to sell 5M? Without the proper insight into this business reality, both teams are set up for failure. And, when failure occurs, it’s difficult to know where accountability lies. Was the sales forecast overly optimistic or did operations under-buy?
The Sales/Opps disconnect is one of the most common reasons why companies turn to an ERP solution. When an integrated ERP system is coupled with solid sales and operations planning (S&OP) procedures, you can maintain accountability and enable sales and operations to function cohesively off of one set of numbers.
3. A company needs predictive performance to remain profitable and viable
The ability to predict future performance—for better or worse—drives effective planning, decreases risk and maximizes opportunity. While a company cannot achieve predictive performance with an ERP system alone, a fully integrated ERP system allows an organization to operate under one set of numbers and enables predictability by reconciling sales and inventory forecasts.
What happens if a business "sweeps" warning signs "under the rug" and continues to operate with a sub-par ERP, or simply no ERP at all?
ERP helps sales departments sell inventory with confidence, allows buyers to better track warehouse goods, and eases the transition between “old” and “new” models. If you fail to adopt ERP after you see the warning signs, there are a number of problems you are opening your business up to.
Most importantly, without a systematic way to track inventory and sales, you run the risk of getting stuck with excessive inventory and scrap. This is particularly true for businesses with limited shelf-life products like the fresh foods industry. Fresh goods have a firm shelf-life, and managing this type of sale with QuickBooks or an antiquated inventory system is both time consuming and leaves room for error. The same is true for consumer packaged goods companies, who must regularly offer products with a new look and feel for every season.
What factors should be considered when selecting an ERP vendor/partner?
ERP is a point solution that can seriously stall your business if it doesn’t work properly, so it’s important to find a vendor with a proven track record that you trust. Just like choosing a doctor, you need to know that the vendor will be there for you to help you implement and troubleshoot your new ERP solution.
If this information rings true in any fashion, and you can see elements of such in your business, you can learn more about SAP's small-midsize business solutions on Navigator's (2011 SAP Partner of the Year) website at http://nbs-us.com/sapsolutions, or you can call 877.395.4SAP.
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In much the same way that SAP small business customers look to knock their current business levels "out of the park," SAP Gold Channel Partner Navigator Business Solutions sponsored a "take me out to the ballgame" night for a great match up between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Milwaukee Brewers, accompanied by some great current and prospective SAP customers.
It was a great evening of baseball (Brewers won 2-1), as well as a great oppportunity to network with and learn about Navigator and SAP Business ByDesign.
What is SAP Business ByDesign?
SAP Business ByDesign is SAP's world-class, cloud-based ERP platform, designed specifically for small-midsize businesses all around the world. With no annual maintenance, no patch level upgrades, and flexible subscription models, SAP Business ByDesign is ideal for any small-midsize enterprise looking to fully integrate all of their internal processes, as well as get access to all of their critical business data in real-time; enabling these companies to make more better informed, timely decisions that help them outpace their competition.
To learn more about what SAP Business ByDesign can do for your business, visit http://nbs-us.com/sapsolutions/sap_bydesign. You can also view several high-level overview videos about the software on Navigator's YouTube channel. Simply click the links to the right, and you can see/access a wealth of information, designed to show you how SAP can decrease inefficiency, and accelerate profitable growth in ways you never imagined possible.
Questions? Contact us today, or call 877.395.4SAP.
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