SAN MATEO, Calif. and
MAKATI CITY, Philippines,
Sept. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/
-- NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of
cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software
suites, today announced that Big Chill Inc., a fast-growing food
and beverage retailer with 60 shops in the greater Manila area, has deployed NetSuite OneWorld to
support the company's growth and expansion plans. The retail chain
is relying on NetSuite OneWorld to better manage its
mission-critical business processes, including financials,
inventory management, fixed asset management, order management,
procure-to-pay and warehousing – all without a huge IT staff and
within one unified business management solution. Big Chill expects
this modernization effort to give them the business agility,
visibility, flexibility and scalability that cannot be found in
their previous on-premise system to support its business
growth and expansion.
"The retail business is ever-changing and to maintain a
competitive edge, we need an efficient, scalable unified system to
run our entire operations. NetSuite OneWorld gives us a pathway to
take the business to the next level. It's a fantastic opportunity
to meet our ambitious strategic objectives for rapid growth," said
Rusty Lemon, Chief Operating
Consultant at Big Chill. "We feel like we're upgrading from an
archaic on-premise solution into a modern, luxury suite with
NetSuite. The reporting flexibility and ability to add modules to
the product as we expand are tremendous."
Acquired in 2011, Big Chill, together with its parent company
AgriNurture, has experienced rapid growth in recent years. With the
launch of Fresh Bar, a healthy snack bar, the acquisition of
Cheesecake Etc., a major Philippine cake retailer, and a planned
expansion program, Big Chill realized that it outgrew its
previous system due to its functionality and scalability
limitations. After an exhaustive review of a number of on-premise
solutions, including Microsoft Dynamics GP and SAP, Big Chill
decided to deploy NetSuite OneWorld to future-proof its business
with the assistance of IT Group Inc., a NetSuite Solution Provider
Partner in the Philippines and
Indonesia.
With NetSuite OneWorld, Big Chill has the ability to:
- Improve procure-to-pay efficiency across 300 suppliers in the
first phase of its deployment.
- Realize cost savings by scaling back the large staff of
accounting personnel needed in its legacy environment and
reassigning them to other pressing business functions.
- Better understand and control key business metrics, such as
cost of goods sold.
- Project greater speed and completeness in financial
reconciliations and local tax compliance with the Philippine Bureau
of Internal Revenue.
- Streamline product preparation and packaging at its
commissary.
- Improve payroll efficiency compared to manual processes of the
past with NetSuite payroll capabilities.
Big Chill (www.bigchill.com.ph), which is one of the
most complex subsidiaries of AgriNurture (ANI: Philippines), a diversified and publicly
traded Philippine grower and exporter of fresh fruit and
vegetables, and processed agricultural food products, was selected
for the initial NetSuite deployment at AgriNurture. AgriNurture's
family of brands across the
Philippines includes FCA (Fresh Choice Always) for fresh and
processed wellness food products; La Natural for coconut juice and
Nikka for mango nectar and tamarind juices; Superfresh and Big
Chill for fresh fruit beverages and the Cafeteria Verde healthy
fast-food chain.
Today, more than 20,000 companies and subsidiaries depend on
NetSuite to run complex, mission-critical business processes
globally in the cloud. Since its inception in 1998, NetSuite has
established itself as the leading provider of enterprise-class
cloud financials/ERP suites for divisions of large enterprises and
mid-sized organizations seeking to upgrade their antiquated
client/server ERP systems. NetSuite excels at streamlining business
operations as demonstrated in a recent Gartner study naming
NetSuite as the fastest growing financial management software
vendor on a global basis. NetSuite continues its success in
delivering the best cloud ERP/financials suites to businesses
around the world, enabling them to lower IT costs significantly
while increasing productivity, as the global adoption of the cloud
is accelerating.
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