Bancolini Symbol was born in 1983 with the creation of barcode printing and it offers complete solutions for the market of automatic identification and data collection. Among the first in Europe to introduce those systems, the company, thanks to 30 years of experience it is the leader of mobile data collection technologies.

Needs

To structure in the best way business processes, as well as to have an advanced control system on marginalty and performance key indicators, Bancolini Symbol has decided to invest on a ERP project to support company growth and to substitute a previous inadequate solution.

The main goal of the company was to optmize Supply Chain complex flows and to have a punctual management of post-sale support. There was also the necessity to have an income statement for a precise survey and analysis of the margins on the different cost items, with direct and indirect allocations. Finally, Bancolini Symbol needed a Business Intelligence analysis instrument in real time for Sales, Purchases, Logistics and Service departments.

Solution

Thanks to the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Power BI with Eos solutions support, Bancolini Symbol has obtained the complete integration of the Supply chain between internal and external processes and the control of flows of goods. It has also automated the management of support requests and the device repair, thanks to a punctual management of support contract.

For what concerns purchases the company has adopted automatic and flexible logic to define the level of reorganization according to historical consumption and expected trends, optimizing stocks and generating automatic reordering proposals.