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Buckbee-Mears Cortland Implements ERP System with IBM DB2 Universal Database
Business Wire, May 19, 2000
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SOMERS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2000
Buckbee-Mears Cortland, a division of BMC Industries and a $200-million manufacturer of precision imaged products, has implemented an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from IBM (NYSE: IBM) to improve procurement, production planning and financial management.
Buckbee-Mears' production planning processes were hindered by numerous disjointed systems, running on different platforms and unable to communicate with each other. Sales order processing took place on one system, defect reporting and yield calculations on another. Consequently, data was distributed and shared through cumbersome spreadsheets and was often inconsistent and outdated.
Buckbee-Mears, of Cortland, New York and Mllheim, Germany implemented IBM's DB2 Universal Database for Windows NT running on an IBM Netfinity Server to replace its "homegrown" applications with a new data management system for ERP.
"DB2 offers open, industrial-strength database management for decision support, transaction processing, and an extensive range of business applications," said Jim Stewart, software applications manager at Buckbee-Mears Cortland. "A database that isn't scalable, powerful and reliable could potentially cripple an ERP system. DB2 has everything we need."
The IBM solution gives Buckbee-Mears the ERP platform it desired. The company will be able to use the historical data housed in DB2 as a supply chain management tool. The new system also offers scalability for future growth and the opportunity to implement web-based applications to provide better customer service.
"We are very pleased with the performance and stability of DB2 on the NT platform," added Rick Sheer, corporate director of Information Technology, Buckbee-Mears Cortland. "We are looking to implement this solution at other divisions in the corporation."
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