Sage ERP X3 Case Study

Beverage Manufacturer Completes Quick Implementation of Sage ERP X3 Headquarters: Marseille, France Industry: Beverage producer Revenues: $15M Employees: 25

Background The next phase involved integrating the purchasing and manufacturing functions. “Sage ERP X3 contained Orangina CFPO is part of Pernod-Ricard, a large the necessary features we needed, right out of the international producer of wines and spirits. Originally box,” continued Bourgue. Critical to Orangina CFPO’s produced in Vitrolles, France, the Orangina beverage operations was the ability to accommodate the is a sparkling orange soft drink with pulp that is mixed intricacies of exporting products to their target markets, by the consumer prior to drinking. It is distributed in 45 a capability that was readily handled via parameter countries, primarily the British Isles, Eastern Europe, settings in the Sage ERP X3 toolset. Asia, Africa, South America, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Production has since moved to Marseilles Organina CFPO also made use of the inherent sub- Province, where a new facility produces the orange contracting and inter-site transfer features of Sage ERP concentrate. The bottles for the export markets are X3. “We produce a bulk product that is transformed produced by co-packers on behalf of CFPO. into Orangina concentrate at a third-party facility,” explained Bourgue. The concentrate is shipped to the Because much of the previous company had been various countries, where it can go to bottlers or other spun off to Cadbury- Schweppes, the remaining sub-contracting organisations. “The distribution supply business unit needed to act quickly to implement chain can be quite complex,” said Bourgue. “They a new enterprise business system. Of the solutions require solid information system support, which we’ve examined, the company determined Sage ERP X3 to received as a result of implementing Sage ERP X3.” have the best overall fit to their beverage production and distribution requirements and that it could be quickly installed in their desired phased format. “We wanted to install sales, inventory and accounting in the first phase,” said Denis Bourgue, MIS Manager for CFPO. “We also migrated data from our previous system and laid out the reporting requirements of Pernod-Ricard.” This phase was completed on schedule in just two months. “Sage ERP X3 contained the necessary features we needed, right out of the box.” - Denis Bourgue MIS Manager Orangina

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