Videojet

Videojet/Willett (VJW) which is headquartered in Chicago USA, develops, produces, sells and services high performance industrial inkjet and thermal print solutions to a broad variety of enterprises within the global manufacturing and process industry. The VJW organization has more than 70 subsidiaries in 70 countries around the world. Annual turnover exceeds €800 mio.

 

In the beginning of 2003 - VJW decided to build a central system based on the Worldwide SQL version of MBS-Navision 3.10 (SDB). The system should be operational for up to approximately 250 simultaneous users worldwide (EMEA) by end of year 2005. The idea was that the system should be centrally run and maintained and be available to all VJW sales offices worldwide.

In order to ensure that all local business issues were met by the central solution before implementing the system, a diagnostic analysis in each country was performed by Partner Power International (PPI) and the local Partner Power (PP) office responsible for the application in cooperation with the local VJW management and appointed key-users. The goal was to ensure that all business critical demands not directly supported by the central VJW standard solution were identified discussed and described. For each new country added to the solution a local Diagnostic Analysis (GapFit) was performed; all business critical gaps were identified and either worked around or the central VJW solution was modified.

The core development activities were performed by the local PP office responsible for the application together with local reporting, training, setup, data-migration and go-live support. The overall international project management including license handling was performed by PPI.

The central solution has now been up and running since mid 2003. The basic structure is mature and the necessary local functionality is implemented. The data center has been upgraded and can now handle more than 230 simultaneous MBS users via Citrix connections.

At present only one additional country is under implementation and the system is geographically completed.

However several new projects regarding new and enhanced functionality are on-going, including the implementation of MS CRM module, MBS Service management, MBS remote clients, JetReports reporting tools etc.