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Portfolio The Lantek strategy is based on several foundations that have yielded excellent results for more than two decades, leading Lantek to head the CAD/CAM software applications market in the sheet processing sector. One such foundation is its firm investment i
The Lantek Group strategy is based on several foundations that have yielded excellent results for more than two decades, leading Lantek to head the CAD/CAM software applications market in the sheet processing sector. One such foundation is its firm investment in innovation.
“We are aware that in our desire for improvement it is essential we consider the needs and demands of the market, as we owe everything to our customers”, assures Zuriñe Sáenz, Director of ERP Product Solutions at Lantek Sheet Metal Solutions. “It’s not just a question of creating trends, but rather that such demands have to be coordinated with the use of new technologies, in order that they complement each other and yield increases in process ease and agility, time and cost savings and information optimization. All of which translate into the development of solutions that adapt to customer needs and allow them to be more competitive”.
Over 10 years ago Lantek detected that companies in the metal sector suffered from a lack of business management software solutions for optimizing their business processes. Following which the CAD/CAM team started to develop, sell and implement management solutions.
Its important achievements led Lantek to invest in the creation, five years ago, of a division exclusively dedicated to the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) area, which continues to be successful. This area has expanded internationally at the same rate as the rest of the Lantek Group, and is now comprised of 64 professionals with market expertise, offering the market a complete and highly competitive application: Lantek Expert III.
“When we talk about Lantek Expert III we are talking about an integral management solution for companies in the metal processing sector: sheet, profiles and tubing, that offers complete integration with Lantek CAD/CAM solutions and provides flexibility, facilitating total personalisation at all times, based on the business processes of each company”, guarantees Zuriñe Sáenz. “At the same time, this ERP, just like the rest of Lantek´s products, bears our distinctive mark, as it is based on a leading edge architecture that employs the latest technologies”.
These are just some of the management software’s facets, characterised by its modularity, and spanning product and company management to budgeting, through manufacturing, warehouse, purchasing, finance, workshop validation, CRM…
The division aims to offer quality focussed solutions and services, and to optimally cover both cutting machine programming specification and management. And all thiusing an ERP tool that is perfectly integrated with our CAD/CAM cutting and punching applications.
In this context, over 500 companies around the world have placed their trust in Lantek Expert III to optimize their business processes. “Expectations are positive and we are forecasting two digit growth”, affirms Zuriñe Sáenz. “We also contemplate entering new markets, as we continue to invest in providing approachable quality service in our customer’s language. This makes Lantek a different type of multinational”.