Chemical manufacturer finds right formula with DEACOM ERP

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Central synergy: Chemical manufacturer finds right formula withDEACOM ERP -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 6/25/2008 2:09:00 PM Synalloy will use DEACOM ERP to integrate its specialty chemical manufacturing businesswith one software system as part of a companywide initiative toreduce costs associated with productivity, safety, inventorycontrols, quality, and delivery.

Synalloy, a diverse manufacturer of piping and piping systems andspecialty chemicals, has been in business since 1945 and employsmore than 440 people in South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. Thecompany used a combination of software systems to manage itschemical group, which consists of Blackman Uhler LLC, Organic Pigments LLC , and Manufacturers Chemical LLC . The setup lacked the centralization needed for viewinginformation across the entire chemical group, according to SynalloyInformation Systems Director Rhonda Harmon.

"One of our chemical companies was still running a homegrownsystem separate from our main ERP system," Harmon says."And the ERP system we were using was socustomized—particularly in the areas of costing and datacollection—that it was no longer being supported by ourvendor. We were performing many functions outside of our currentsystem that should have been part of our ERP system."

DEACOM ERP, once live, will integrate the business processes ofSynalloy's chemical group, including lab management and regulatoryreporting, accounting, inventory control, purchasing, sales orderentry, CRM, and production in a single database.