Nippon paint (China) Co.,Ltd is wholly owned investment enterprise established by Nipsea Group Singapore, it is located in Pudong new district, Shanghai. Since its foundation in December 1992, the company has established an organization from production, sales to service, and its sales network covers the whole of East China. The company's mission is to serve the society, treating a better living environment, supply customers with paint products which meet the environment protection requirements, supply high quality and colorful products, and perfect presales, sales and after service. In 1998 Nippon Paint was elected as the only one recommendable brand in the paint industry by China National Consumers' Association, leading the consumption tide in Chinese paint industry successfully.

Choose SAP solutions, make colors brighter

Nippon paint (China} has developed its own systems for the production, purchasing and sales processes, and keeps frequent data exchange with suppliers, distributors and shopping malls in order to acquire important information. But due to fast business expansion and organization changes, the legacy system could not supply the business's growing needs. Independent systems in each department lead to multi-resource data and information islands, the information could not able be shared in real-time. In order to fit the requirements of the paint industry, large production plants such as Nippon paint China's must control the order execution, storage and cost control information in a very standardized, accurate and timely fashion. The old working method depended on traditional methods and employee's individual unique experience and was not suitable for an accurate control the enterprise operation. Nippon faint (China) was in need of a set of customized ERP software to manage and control every point of the business process accurately, to supply the needs of business and production completely.

After a careful selection session, Nippon paint (China) chose the SAP solution as the information platform on which Nippon Paint can further develop its volume and increase its control level. One major reason why Nippon paint (China) chose SAP was because Nippon paint Malaysia had chosen the SAP solution and it runs successfully with a smooth internal information flow. Another important reason to chose SAP is that SAP is the world's leading provider of enterprise management software, its first-class industry solutions are widely used all over the world and includes comprehensive functions, integration, expandability and first-class China localization level could satisfy the needs of Nippon Paint (China)'s.

Professional consulting team makes implementation successful

Nippon paint (China} chose SAP Consulting China to implement the software. Consultants from SAP consulting China have professional background and rich experience on long SAP solutions implementation in many industries in China. Taking into account the industry of Nippon faint (China) and the data volume, SAP consulting China created a detailed implementation blueprint and did comprehensive preparation. After a six months implementation period, SAP consultants successfully completed the project in October 2002. The implemented modules include FI/CO,PP/QM,MM/WM and SD; functional departments involved in the project are finance, product management, production, sales, storage and purchasing.

SAP optimizes business process and enhances enterprise control level

After a successful launch and smooth utilization period, the SAP system gained good reputations at Nippon paint (China). SAPsolution answers Nippon paint's business needs, bring continuous optimization with its advanced functions and tight integration. SAP integrates Nippon paint's entire process systemically, manages related business processes such as paint production, profit ability and sales and offers analysis and reporting in multi-dimensions. Finance department can obtain integrated information from the above processes, then help the company make better decisions. The daily bulk order processing and material transfer can be integrated, improving the enterprise operational efficiency; what's more the system is expandable and easily upgradeable for the future.15 months after the Nippon paint (China}'s successful implementation, in January 2004 Nippon paint (Lang fang} also successfully implemented SAP, and Nippon paint (Guangzhou) a bit later too.

SAP consulting China_professional service is warranty of the successful implementation

SAP Consulting China was set up in 1995 in Beijing. Offices in Shanghai (1996) and Guangzhou (1998) followed as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan. It counts more than 100 experienced SAP consulting China provides its clients with focused and knowledgeable consulting and training service for all aspects of an SAP implementation in China-executing it's clients global vision. SAP consulting' s experienced consulting Engagement Managers will support you through your needs for on-site business consulting, application, remote application, technical consulting, project review program, remote upgrade service, remote archiving service, data and structure migration service，business consulting, enterprise application integration. SAP consulting provides the comprehensive support service of enterprise management in order to create value for customers implementing SAP solutions.