Bremworth, the 50-year-old New Zealand carpet manufacturer and NZX-listed company, relied on Wintergrate – an in-house stock and sales system maintained by just three original developers for 30 years, with no modern financial capability and a real risk of losing critical records if that small team ever left.
Fusion5 staged a careful replacement: upgrading from Dynamics AX 2012 to cloud-based Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, replacing Dynamics CRM with Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, rolling out manufacturing capabilities at the Cavalier Spinners mills in Napier and Whanganui, and adding SignUp ExFlow to automate invoice processing.
“It’s a wonderful piece of software. It really does have a wow factor to it,” says Trevor Jones, Group IT Manager at Bremworth, where accounts payable now runs with one person instead of three to four, and month-end close has dropped from one to two weeks down to just three days.
