Prodrive Technologies manufactures the technology and the electronic products that are the key links in many essential systems. These might be components of MRI devices, fine dust sensors for cars or motherboards for industrial machines. With branches in America, Israel, and China, Prodrive has been working hard since 1993 on how to supply the whole world with its products. “We grow by around twenty percent every year”, says Mark Menting, Logistics Global Process Owner at Prodrive Technologies. “That demands plenty of flexibility, especially in the systems you work with.”
From SAP ECC to SAP EWM
n 2017, Prodrive wanted to add more flexibility by tackling their warehouse management systems. Menting:
“In the Netherlands, we were still running on SAP ECC, with SAP’s standard warehouse management integrated with it. This was complemented by software we developed in-house to ensure that it was a better fit to our activities. At the same time, we were working with a different SAP system in our new factory in China. As a result, it was difficult to operate in a consistent way. We then made the strategic choice to switch to SAP EWM in all countries.”
All our locations aligned
Ctac had been supporting Prodrive for years with the management and maintenance of SAP. “We started
working together on the implementations of SAP EWM”, says Menting. “First we migrated China and then we moved onto a greenfield implementation in America. A fire at one of our sites brought the project to a halt for a while. In 2020, we started the implementation in the Netherlands. That was much larger and more complex than in the other countries, with greater flows of goods between multiple sites. Challenging, but worth it. Now we have a future-proof system with many more features, and all our sites are on the same page.”
