York Precision Plastics Zooms in on ComOps Business Intelligence
Sydney, 5 December 2011 – ComOps, a leading Australian provider of business software products and services, has announced that it will deploy its business intelligence platform, ComOps BI, at York Precision Plastics (YPP), Australia’s leading manufacturer of prismatic lens panels and wraparound lighting diffusers.
ComOps BI will integrate with YPP’s ComOps BMS business management platform which was originally deployed in 1998 and has scaled successfully in providing ongoing financial reporting in line with the company’s organic growth.
“In adopting ComOps BI, we wanted a seamless approach to extract financial data from BMS and provide our middle level management with the capability to analyse information across both our major facilities and in the supply chain itself for specific business processes such as stock control, debtor analysis, general ledger, accounts payable and accounts receivable,” said Glenn Rufford, Financial Director, York Precision Plastics.
YPP’s middle management have traditionally relied on summarised information from Excel spreadsheets when compiling monthly, quarterly and annual reports. ComOps BI will replace the company’s traditional spreadsheet approach to transactional reporting. The system will enable the company to simply and readily generate key performance indicators, dashboards and graphs and provide the organisation’s management team with automated browser-based visibility of the company’s key performance indicators.
ComOps BI will also help YPP to unify its diverse administrative and financial applications in a single platform across all locations and systems. Users will get a transparent, accurate and timely enterprise view of financial performance as the solution automates and structures the financial consolidation process, provides centralised control and collection of data, supports the improvement of the internal controls environment and ensures delivery of valid, financial performance information for internal and external reporting.
At the same time, ComOps BI dashboards provide a snap shot of relevant performance details such as transaction alerts, field force accomplishments, sales forecasts and order updates.
“One of the benefits of ComOps BMS has been that transactions captured in one area of the business can be accounted for in another part of the company’s operations, eliminating the risk of manual or overlapping processes. ComOps BI will now be used to consolidate and enhance our financial management reporting, providing a single view of data drawn from the company's BMS applications. Making ComOps the common reporting platform across the organisation offers savings in licence costs, savings in software administration and maintenance, and capitalises on the existing ComOps skills within the business,” says Rufford.
The new solution also includes services for greater flexibility in the delivery of reports to staff and improved auditing capabilities through recording of information such as who is using the system, which reports and queries are being run, and the cost of queries to system resources.
“This project is all about decision making and using information. It's about people not spending their time collating and formatting data but rather having them analyse information so that they can obtain value from it. We expect that ComOps BI will assist us by combining all the different types of data within our business and making it possible for us to identify process and planning efficiencies,” says Rufford.
Over the years, York Precision Plastics has deployed its industrial sheeting and lighting solutions in a diverse range of venues across Asia, Australia and New Zealand, including Harbour Side at Sydney’s Darling Harbour, Sydney Airport and within Woolworths stores around the country.
“ComOps BI will now enable us to continue to exceed the expectations of our customers with regards to the efficiency and flexibility of our service. While the ComOps BMS system is absolutely great, ComOps BI will enable us to further support our business with a dashboard analysis solution which is truly leading edge,” says Rufford.
York Precision Plastics (YPP) began operations in Australia in 1969 as K-Lite Pty Ltd, and has since become the leading manufacturer of prismatic lens panels and wraparound lighting diffusers in Australia. The company employs over 60 people and occupies a hectare of factory, warehouse and office space in the south-western Sydney suburb of Riverwood, New South Wales. In addition to its Sydney operations, YPP has sales offices and warehouses in Sunshine West, Victoria; Brendale, Queensland; and East Tamaki, New Zealand.
About ComOps Limited
ComOps Limited has a 39-year history in the IT industry in Australasia and listed on the ASX in 1999. The company develops, sells, implements, hosts and supports software solutions in the ERP, Business Intelligence, Mobile Sales Force Automation, eCommerce, Retail, Risk Management & Safety Compliance, Workforce Management and Human Capital Management markets. These solutions are used by a range of blue chip clients such as Toll Transport, Sensis, RACQ, Steinhoff Asia Pacific (Freedom Furniture), Heinz, Australia Post, Toshiba, Dulux, Canon, Queensland Government, NSW Lotteries, DP World, Virgin Blue and Commonwealth Bank to name just a few.
ComOps is a Microsoft Gold Partner, Progress Premier Partner, is ISO 9001:2008 Quality Accredited and Government Endorsed.
ComOps BI will integrate with YPP’s ComOps BMS business management platform which was originally deployed in 1998 and has scaled successfully in providing ongoing financial reporting in line with the company’s organic growth.
“In adopting ComOps BI, we wanted a seamless approach to extract financial data from BMS and provide our middle level management with the capability to analyse information across both our major facilities and in the supply chain itself for specific business processes such as stock control, debtor analysis, general ledger, accounts payable and accounts receivable,” said Glenn Rufford, Financial Director, York Precision Plastics.
YPP’s middle management have traditionally relied on summarised information from Excel spreadsheets when compiling monthly, quarterly and annual reports. ComOps BI will replace the company’s traditional spreadsheet approach to transactional reporting. The system will enable the company to simply and readily generate key performance indicators, dashboards and graphs and provide the organisation’s management team with automated browser-based visibility of the company’s key performance indicators.
ComOps BI will also help YPP to unify its diverse administrative and financial applications in a single platform across all locations and systems. Users will get a transparent, accurate and timely enterprise view of financial performance as the solution automates and structures the financial consolidation process, provides centralised control and collection of data, supports the improvement of the internal controls environment and ensures delivery of valid, financial performance information for internal and external reporting.
At the same time, ComOps BI dashboards provide a snap shot of relevant performance details such as transaction alerts, field force accomplishments, sales forecasts and order updates.
“One of the benefits of ComOps BMS has been that transactions captured in one area of the business can be accounted for in another part of the company’s operations, eliminating the risk of manual or overlapping processes. ComOps BI will now be used to consolidate and enhance our financial management reporting, providing a single view of data drawn from the company's BMS applications. Making ComOps the common reporting platform across the organisation offers savings in licence costs, savings in software administration and maintenance, and capitalises on the existing ComOps skills within the business,” says Rufford.
The new solution also includes services for greater flexibility in the delivery of reports to staff and improved auditing capabilities through recording of information such as who is using the system, which reports and queries are being run, and the cost of queries to system resources.
“This project is all about decision making and using information. It's about people not spending their time collating and formatting data but rather having them analyse information so that they can obtain value from it. We expect that ComOps BI will assist us by combining all the different types of data within our business and making it possible for us to identify process and planning efficiencies,” says Rufford.
Over the years, York Precision Plastics has deployed its industrial sheeting and lighting solutions in a diverse range of venues across Asia, Australia and New Zealand, including Harbour Side at Sydney’s Darling Harbour, Sydney Airport and within Woolworths stores around the country.
“ComOps BI will now enable us to continue to exceed the expectations of our customers with regards to the efficiency and flexibility of our service. While the ComOps BMS system is absolutely great, ComOps BI will enable us to further support our business with a dashboard analysis solution which is truly leading edge,” says Rufford.
York Precision Plastics (YPP) began operations in Australia in 1969 as K-Lite Pty Ltd, and has since become the leading manufacturer of prismatic lens panels and wraparound lighting diffusers in Australia. The company employs over 60 people and occupies a hectare of factory, warehouse and office space in the south-western Sydney suburb of Riverwood, New South Wales. In addition to its Sydney operations, YPP has sales offices and warehouses in Sunshine West, Victoria; Brendale, Queensland; and East Tamaki, New Zealand.
About ComOps Limited
ComOps Limited has a 39-year history in the IT industry in Australasia and listed on the ASX in 1999. The company develops, sells, implements, hosts and supports software solutions in the ERP, Business Intelligence, Mobile Sales Force Automation, eCommerce, Retail, Risk Management & Safety Compliance, Workforce Management and Human Capital Management markets. These solutions are used by a range of blue chip clients such as Toll Transport, Sensis, RACQ, Steinhoff Asia Pacific (Freedom Furniture), Heinz, Australia Post, Toshiba, Dulux, Canon, Queensland Government, NSW Lotteries, DP World, Virgin Blue and Commonwealth Bank to name just a few.
ComOps is a Microsoft Gold Partner, Progress Premier Partner, is ISO 9001:2008 Quality Accredited and Government Endorsed.
