Rob Jackson of Fiberweb Geosynthetics Ltd. (formerly Boddingtons) gave a presentation at the Dynamics NAV User Group at the meeting held in June 2011.  He described the progress of Fiberweb and their need to have consistency across various countries and divisions of the business.  From their Boddingtons days and from other parts of the organisation, various forms of NAV and other software had been used in the past.  There was a need to coordinate everything within one ERP system across global operations.  Fiberweb wanted one complete platform and needed to move quickly. NAV 2009 R2 was released mid December.

Rob outlined the rapid progress they made in 2011 with the UK update complete on 14^th February and Item Number Synchronisation completed on 25^th February.  Germany and USA both live on 1^st April and Australia live on 1^st May.  Work outstanding includes Online Shop integration in USA, Australia and Germany.   Manufacturing integration by August 2011 and Tubex integration in September 2011.  Total project costs of £325K for NAV installation in UK, Germany, Australia and USA which includes Servers, hardware and infrastructure, licencing, consultancy and travel.

The key benefits of new Role Tailored Client included:

• Reduced learning curve for new staff with new people finding it very easy
• Workflow is much more intuitive
• All staff running a common system so reduced training and systems familiarity
• Synergies are gained from custom development
• 3-tier architecture means that you can run client over a VPN rather than terminal services
• Screens are easy for users to customise and work how they want

Disadvantages:

• Searching for records was easier in previous client
• New report designer adds to development time and standard released reports are not 100%

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