A family business that is transitioning to the next generation of leaders, Q Industries takes pride in supplying its hospitality and F&B clientele with top quality products and solutions, which include their in-house Quantum Pro brand of kitchen OS&E products.

But with 10,000+ SKUs to offer, offices and warehouses to manage across the region, and a growing list of clientele across South-east Asia, India, Africa, and the Middle-East, their legacy ERP system could no longer effectively support their scale of operations.

Some problems they faced included:

• The lack of a quotation module, which resulted in a manual RFQ process that was tedious and slow, especially when each quotation came with a min. of 500+ SKUs;
• A complicated PO process that struggled to cope with large orders, as staff had to sift through multiple spreadsheets to find the right items and suppliers to fulfil such orders;
• Inaccurate, tedious and slow reporting due to the inefficient RFQ and PO processes.
• Warehouse inefficiencies due to staff spending time matching goods received to the customers they belonged to.

“What set AFON apart from the rest is that not only did they understand our requirements, they even did some prototyping on their own initiative to find what is possible,” said Christophe Megel, the Executive Director. “They were able to give us a precise answer when we posed a technical question (for the RFQ), and that feels good, because we know we were talking to real professionals in the field.”

After the implementation of Business Central, “the office was on fire”, he adds. “There was excitement in the air, as everyone was eager to see what our new ERP system could do.”

The implementation reaped dividends for Q Industries, automating their business processes to the point that they reduced the time spent per project from start to completion by up to 70%.

More importantly, this has freed their team to spend more time thinking about how to source for intelligent, creative solutions for their prospects. This new competitive edge has helped them clinch several large deals since.

With the integration of the mobile warehousing app Tasklet into Business Central, Q Industries also saw time savings in their warehouses, as their staff could take advantage of on-the-go visibility of their inventory.

Q Industries has been very satisfied with the results, and are continuing their partnership with AFON IT to coordinate the Business Central project at their Vietnam branch.