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Portfolio The company has invested 7 million Euros in the development of their new ERP system in order to maintain its leadership in innovation, and increase the output, competitiveness and accessibility to information through 2.0 web technologies for its customers
The company has invested 7 million Euros in the development of their new ERP system in order to maintain its leadership in innovation, and increase the output, competitiveness and accessibility to information through 2.0 web technologies for its customers.
The launch of this new ERP system will boost the business of Lantek all around the world, contributing 30% of its income by 2012.
Lantek, world leader in the development and sales of CAD/CAM and ERP software solutions for the sheet metal sector, announces the launch and release of Lantek Integra into the market. Lantek Integra is an innovative and powerful web based Enterprise Resource Planning system, which allows automation, management and control of each of the business processes anywhere and anytime, providing easier access to information through Internet and thereby improving the productivity of the company.
Lantek Integra, which is established in an advanced technological architecture, is a complete solution, integrated with the rest of Lantek’s CAD/CAM solutions, promotes the use of enterprise portals. Lantek Integra consists of a series of functional modules, which include Finance, Sales, Purchases, Manufacturing, Warehouses, Products, CRM and WOS. It incorporates a significant number of features that, among other advantages, helps to improve the decision-making processes significantly, thanks to the incorporation of Business Intelligence tools, reporting and dashboards.
These characteristics, coupled with the high processing capacity, simple and intuitive user interface and the deep knowledge and specialisation of Lantek in the sheet metal industry, turn Lantek Integra into the best solution in the market, especially suitable for the companies that develop their activity in this sector.
The new ERP solution is a proprietary development of Lantek, and 26 engineers have been working on this project with an investment of 7 million Euros for the last 5 years. This constitutes the most significant launch by the company in recent times. It has become the main focus that Lantek wants to use in order to give a boost to the ERP area, which is expected to generate the 30% of the worldwide sales of the company in 2012. The software is available in 17 languages.
Lantek Integra incorporates a significant number of functionalities and features. The company shows its commitment to offer advanced, complete and high quality solutions, ability to provide constant updates and satisfy the needs of the most demanding companies in the market.
Lantek Integra focuses on the automation of processes via internet, productivity and cost reduction, which constitute the basic objectives of all business integration processes. This new platform is characterised by a lower Total Cost Ownership (TCO) with a quick Return on Investment (ROI), which makes the solution financially suitable to any company.
“With this launch, Lantek again shows its commitment to innovation and technological development, offering the market, a complete solution that contributes to automate and speed up the business processes”, says Mrs. Zuriñe Sáenz, ERP Product Manager at Lantek. “Lantek Integra meets all the needs of the market, there is an increasing number of companies that work remotely with 2.0 tools and this allows a quick and easy access to information and promote collaboration”.
Complete functionality in a modular and integrated ERP
The new solution, that has been developed using Microsoft .Net technology and is compatible with Windows 7, is a powerful and cutting-edge product providing a wide variety of tools that enable solutions based in multi-platform architecture in a quick and easy way. At the same time, it also permits a high level of scalability and adaptation to each business profile. The solution is more dynamic, user-friendly and easy to manage. It puts a new spin on the mobility of the users, while integrates perfectly with the rest of CAD/DAM solutions of Lantek.
The new ERP is made up of a wide group of functional modules, which fully cover the current and future management needs of a company, from the initial process of attracting customers through to the support service. The modules incorporated in the ERP are as follows:
Other characteristic of the new ERP is that the solution focuses on the user and is targeted at the different roles and events. The system guides the user depending on the required process. At the same time, the use of Paradigma 2.0 makes it more user-friendly and makes the collaboration between users, the development of team tasks and work flow easier.
Definitively, Lantek Integra ERP contributes to a high level of integration and coordinates the information processes of the company. At the same time, it offers the user control over the system, providing a global approach in real time over the state of the different processes of the company, and making decision-making processes easier. It is quickly adapted to all the business processes of the company due to the fact that it is a very flexible and escalable tool.
“Since delays, double work and possible mistakes are avoided and complexity is reduced, a lot of time is saved and costs are reduced in all the processes, what results in a higher efficiency”, says Mrs. Zuriñe.
Commercialisation strategy
Lantek has chosen a mixed model where it combines direct sales by means of sales representatives in each of the 23 brand offices that Lantek has all over the world, as well as indirect sales through software manufacturers and distributors. The net is planned to be increased both in Spain and in the rest of the world.
Lantek has 20 partners in Spain, mainly located in Madrid, Galicia and Cataluña. The companies have a high level of competencies and a renowned business prestige in the market. Their commercial and technical capacity guarantees the quality of the implementations and the customer satisfaction.
The objective markets for the commercialisation of the new solution in 2010 are the following ones: Spain, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Germany, South America and USA.
About Lantek
Lantek is a multinational company, world leader in the development and the commercialization of CAD/CAM and ERP software solutions for the sheet metal sector. Lantek, founded in 1986 in the Basque Country, is a world leader in sheet metal cutting and punching solutions Lantek Expert thanks to its capacity of innovation and internalization. Lantek has now more than 10,000 customers in more than 100 countries, with its headquarters in Spain (Vitoria-Gasteiz) and branch offices in the USA, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Great Britain, China, South Korea, France, Japan, India, Poland, Mexico, Turkey and Czech Republic, supported by a wide distribution network all over the world. In 2009, its international business contributed 80% of its total invoicing.
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