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PLASTICS, COMPOSITES & ADVANCED MATERIALS
Plastral on NetSuite Plastral Pty Ltd, an Australian-based is a leading supplier of plastic materials and equipment recently updated their legacy ERP to NetSuite Wholesale Distribution. An Australian company founded in 1946, Plastral provides a wide range of products including plastic sheet, rod, and tube products, specialty engineering plastics, chemicals, polymers, and plastic welding equipment. They were facing significant hurdles with their existing 15-year-old on-premises ERP system. Maintaining and updating the system had increasingly proven to be difficult and costly, with prohibitive expenses for hardware upgrades and the latest software version. In an age where organisations are seeking to outsource and simplify IT operations, dedicating significant hardware and people resources to managing on-premises systems was no longer tenable. The Plastral team conducted an exhaustive evaluation, inviting vendors and partners to pitch their solutions. Following a meticulous RFP process and multiple solution demonstrations, OneKloudX emerged as the winning supplier determining that NetSuite Wholesale Distribution was the right fit to improve business efficiency and streamline workflows. NetSuite Wholesale Distribution ticked all the boxes addressing their pressing needs such as reducing manual processes, optimising information flows, automating sales and expenses, and providing a unified source of truth for enhanced analytics, planning, and reporting. NetSuite has empowered Plastral to enhance business efficiencies and streamline workflows through a robust, cloud-based ERP solution. With NetSuite, Plastral has gained a comprehensive, realtime view of its operations, including multi-currency conversion capabilities and multi-site management across the entire APAC operations. Month-end closes and reporting from all locations is faster as they can manage all sites in one unified view. The OneKloudX team had a thorough understanding of the source data architecture of the existing on-premises ERP so, minimising the risk of missing information and erroneous data. This understanding of data architecture was advantageous to the transformation from onpremises to cloud. NetSuite provides Plastral with a comprehensive view of their entire business, optimising efficiencies and streamlining workflows. The solution has reduced manual processes, improved information flows, and automated critical functions such as sales, expenses,
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and inventory management. Across all locations, there is a single view of sales and customer information for full transparency into operations. By integrating NetSuite with WooCommerce, Plastral has gained seamless collaboration with their 3Pls, enhancing order fulfilment and customer satisfaction. The cloud-based nature of the solution has eliminated the need for costly hardware upgrades and provided scalability for future growth. The scalability of the cloud solution has allowed Plastral to accommodate business growth and changing demands easily. With the elimination of costly hardware upgrades and the ability to adjust resources on demand, Plastral has experienced cost savings and improved operational efficiency. They now have a platform that is scalable to demand changing demands. Plastral can effortlessly connect with its partners, suppliers, and customers, establishing seamless communication channels that streamline business processes and enhance overall productivity. This connectivity fosters collaboration, facilitates swift information exchange, and enables efficient coordination among all stakeholders involved in Plastral’s operations. By introducing a modern cloud ERP solution, the successful implementation of the NetSuite solution has effectively eliminated manual processes and lack of functionality. This implementation has streamlined operational automation and significantly improved end-to-end visibility, providing Plastral with a single source of truth across the entire organisation. The decision to engage OneKloudX, an award-winning ANZ NetSuite partner, as the implementation partner has proven to be instrumental in overcoming their challenges and meeting their requirements. “With the entire company running on one unified ERP system, NetSuite has provided timely information clarity across their entire business that enable sall roles and users to be on the same page, at the same time. Whether that is Finance, Operations, Sales or suppliers, they all now share up to date and accurate information,” says Robert Jurcec, CEO of OneKloudX. plastral.com.au onekloudx.com.au