The Botswana Ministry of Local Government needed to automate its business management systems to reduce a huge backlog of unclosed manual accounts in local authorities. The ministry worked with Microsoft® Certified Partner PSU International in deploying Microsoft Dynamics® GP 8.0 business management software. Today, 60 per cent of local councils are up to date with their returns compared to zero in 2002, when the project started.

TWP Projects in South Africa needed a single integrated system for project management and accounting, including a tool to integrate employee timesheets with invoices. The company replaced its Softline Pastel and open-source systems with Microsoft Dynamics® SL business management software. Now, it has an integrated view of operations and revenue streams, which is boosting its ability to maximise profits and eliminating the risk of billing time incorrectly.

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RJ Lee Group tackles technically challenging problems with a team of more than 250 material and forensic scientists, chemists, physicists, and computer scientists. When the company started winning larger contracts with complex reporting requirements, it decided to implement Microsoft Dynamics® SL to improve its project accounting. RJ Lee Group used the solution to efficiently meet a wide variety of state and federal government-contracting rules, including those subject to Defense Contract Audit Agency audits. As a result, RJ Lee Group has grown its business with the government so dramatically that the company is poised to earn half its revenue from contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition, the company reduced administrative workload and increased visibility into operations so that it can respond to business trends as they develop.

NSW Health wanted to obtain holistic patient data across the continuum of care and provide hospital and area health managers with relevant views of data. They also wanted to improve patient care and flow by providing up-to-date information at the point of care. New South Wales Health wanted to transform the way it looks at patient information – from a system-centric view to one that is patient centric. They wanted to analyse information in terms of individual patient journeys across the spectrum of care and in relation to the business needs of health organisations, rather than in terms of the systems the data came from. At the hospital level, they also wanted to provide staff and clinicians with accurate and timely patient information at the point of care.

Food manufacturer and distributor Halwani Brothers (Egypt) wanted to improve the company’s productivity, efficiency, and profitability by replacing its existing business management system. Working with Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner RIGHT, the company deployed Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2009 at its head office and six branches. The software has cut operating costs by 50 per cent and given managers a single view of financial data across the group.

Able Enterprise is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and is a distributor of gift items and household goods. The company had been using a DOS-based accounting system since it was founded in the early 1990s. However the company had grown rapidly in recent years and the accounting system had not been able to keep up. Able Enterprise found that month- and year-end accounting procedures were negatively impacting the business, and decided to find an alternative solution. After reviewing several options, Able Enterprise decided to deploy Microsoft Dynamics® GP due to its extensive functionality and in-depth reporting capabilities. With Microsoft Dynamics GP, Able Enterprise has benefited from greater visibility of company operations which helps to improve decision-making. The company’s financial data is more accurate and the number of manual processes has reduced along with the risk of errors.

Based on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Oughtred Coffee and Tea is a coffee roaster, distributor, and equipment service provider. Relying on a basic accounting package to manage operations, the company handled many processes outside the system, resulting in islands of data, data reentry, and a lack of business insight. To streamline operations and achieve the insight needed to strategically plan production and optimize its merchandising on retailers’ shelves, the company implemented Microsoft Dynamics NAV® 2009 and engaged Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner The RSC Group to drive the implementation by using the Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step methodology. After going live with core functionality in only four months, Oughtred Coffee and Tea has established the central data store needed for advanced decision making and expects to save 2,000 hours a year by reducing data reentry.

BMI Defense Systems designs and manufactures protective equipment with patented energy-absorbing designs for the U.S. military. In 2008, the company won a multimillion-dollar contract to ship a gunner platform and restraint system in direct support of the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan under the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle program. Faced with a need to exponentially scale up its operations, BMI Defense worked with Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner SIS to implement Microsoft Dynamics® SL for accounting, supply chain, and manufacturing. The solution helped BMI Defense better demonstrate to the government its direct and indirect costs for the new contract, thereby saving the company more than the amount it cost to implement the system. In addition, BMI Defense now tracks inventory with greater accuracy and is better able to meet shipment schedules.

Tru-Marine, one of the world’s largest specialist in turbocharger repairs and parts supply, wanted to tighten workflow integration and improve information flow within its business divisions to better meet customers’ needs. With Microsoft Dynamics™, it successfully integrated information flow, streamlined critical business processes and increased business visibility – all critical factors in accelerating its global expansion.