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Impact:ECS Industry Vertical Markets
Our focus is to deliver best-of-breed cost management
solutions for industries with complicated processes, large
product catalogs, or process-intensive operations. The
Impact:ECS Enterprise Cost System has been successfully
implemented in a number of industry verticals where reducing
costs is paramount to success.
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Chemical, Rubber and
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Companies in this vertical market face issues like
consolidation, global competition and offshore
outsourcing in their quest for profitability. Rising
R&D costs require chemicals companies to increase
market share to remain competitive. When there
market share growth is exhausted, many companies in
this segment turn inward to cost management to
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Food and Beverage Processing
There are few industries where the raw materials are
disassembled and reassembled to produce finishes
goods. This difference required pork, poultry and
other processors to develop work-around processes to
gather the information needed to determine business
performance. But as companies grow through
acquisition or product line expansion, integrating
systems and results into an integrated costing
approach is paramount to achieve profitability.
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Metals Processing and Fabrication
Consolidation and elimination of excess production
capacity tops the list of challenges for metals
manufacturers. Couple that trend with falling steel
prices and changing tariff regulations, and it
becomes apparent why these companies are focused on
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Pulp and Paper
Manufacturing
The pulp and paper industry is experiencing a myriad
of technology and management advancements through
improved data integration. While financial and
production data are brought together under the ERP
umbrella, this volume-driven industry requires a
deeper understanding of growing profits through
effective cost management.
In 2008, 3C Software reached an
impressive milestone by implementing Impact:ECS at
50 pulp and paper mills worldwide.
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Semiconductor Manufacturing
Changing conditions like shifting product demand
from US to Asian and European countries, increasing
global competition and very short product life
cycles impact the profitability of fab and fabless
semiconductor manufacturers alike. Outsourcing some
or all of the manufacturing process introduces
different tracking and valuation concerns for these
companies.
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Textile and Apparel Manufacturing
Global trade treaties have opened US markets, giving
textile and apparel producers in low wage countries
the power to lower market prices for textile foods.
Since companies must compete on costs in this
thin-margined business, efficient cost management
processes are essential to profitability.
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