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Zaker Trading fuels
growth with Epicor ERP
implementation
Epicor Software Corporation,
a global provider of industry-
specific enterprise software
to promote business
growth, has announced
that Zaker Trading, a one-
stop-shop for specialised
products and accessories
in welding, lifting, safety,
power tools, abrasives and
other engineering-related
products, has recently
implemented Epicor ERP (enterprise resource planning)
across all its facilities in the Middle East.
improvement over earlier home-grown
solutions, fell short of delivering critical
functionality on-demand without the
need to acquire, provision, and maintain
application infrastructure. xPaaS automates
tedious tasks like setup, configuration,
and integration. Traditionally, developers
performed each of these functions for
each middleware product manually—a
time-consuming, error-prone process.
To communicate with the database, for
example, developers needed to obtain a
connection string in one place and input
it into a configuration file somewhere else.
With xPaaS, intuitive menus help developers
select their database and get their systems
up and running quickly.
xPaaS also speeds time to market by
accelerating trial and error. Engineers and
architects can often approach development
problems in multiple ways, several of
which may appear equally viable, leaving
teams uncertain of which to choose.
Instead of having to sit and envision
every scenario before writing a single line
of code, developers working in an xPaaS
environment can simply try different
solutions and find out which works best.
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The solution is enabling Zaker Trading to streamline and
automate their sales, finance and manufacturing processes
as well as increase visibility, transparency and information
exchange across the organisation.
Finding a platform capable of supporting Zaker Trading’s
growth plans was another important criterion. Jesudason
explained, “We needed the new ERP system to be the
backbone of the business and meet not only our current
business requirements, but also serve as a platform for the next
ten to fifteen years as we expand our operations and grow. It
was therefore essential that the solution was built with next
generation technology, as well as flexible and scalable.”
In parallel, Jesudason was also keen for a solution that
required minimal IT oversight and management. With
just a two-man IT team for the entire organisation, they
could not afford to have these valuable resources spend a
significant portion of their time maintaining the new system
or responding to user queries, like it was doing with the
incumbent system. The company needed the new ERP solution
to be easy to deploy, easy to use and most importantly, require
very little maintenance.
The Epicor ERP solution includes key modules such as financial
management, supply chain management and inventory
management and was deployed across all Zaker Group
companies in the region, bringing each business unit onto a
single platform.
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