Ward Leonard holds first Visual ERP Seminar

On June 14, Ward Leonard Connecticut, LLC, held its first Visual ERP Suite Seminar, entitled “Showcasing Achievements, Leveraging the Visual ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Suite.”

Teaming-up with Synergy Resources, a professional consulting services firm which has helped Ward Leonard with employee procedures and training for the Visual ERP software, Ward Leonard demonstrated the uses, benefits, and successful results during the last three years.

Attended by 27 people from 12 companies, the seminar presented an educational and enlightening approach toward technically streamlining business growth and efficiency with the Visual ERP software tools.

“Leveraging means updating and getting the latest tools and technically getting our (company) needs met, to revise and improve the basic operations and various employee responsibilities of the company. This allowed us to grow without increasing the amount of support staff,” said Alan Cash, business analyst for Ward Leonard.

Director of Operational Excellence Neil Haggard said that since Ward Leonard has a very complex business, involved with both Navy Department of Defense and the Oil and Gas industries, the Visual ERP system is “flexible off-the-shelf so it allows us to run our business in multiple ways to handle the work more efficiently for each product line.”

Mr. Haggard added that Ward Leonard’s specific needs for the Visual ERP system were to manage and improve the operational business needs of the company by utilizing Visual for quoting, material, scheduling, financials, quality, time and attendance, forecasting and ECNs.

“It’s a truly integrated system from the quote to production and quality performance results. We’ve been aligning our processes and tools so that everyone’s integrated and using the same system at the same time, allowing for more efficient, consistent productivity and results,” said Mr. Haggard.

Yoram Shahar, vice president of operations for Ward Leonard, looks at things not only from a business perspective, but from the “lean philosophy” approach. Lean is the practice and philosophy that targets reduction of wasteful resources and creates value for the end customer.

With a lean manufacturing and production focus, combined with the integration of the Visual ERP Software, the two processes complement each other resulting in added value and efficiency for businesses such as Ward Leonard.

“Through Synergy and Infor (Enterprise Software Solutions and Applications), the Visual ERP Suite Seminar allows us to network with other  manufacturing businesses and technical industries, associates and individuals who can both help us to develop and improve the way we do things in the day-to-day operations of our company and help attendees get some ideas of how they could use the tools to help their business,” said Mr. Shahar.

Joining the marketplace with competition such as G.E., through the Visual ERP system, optimizing their lead times, customization and streamlining how they do things, Ward Leonard has nearly doubled the size of the business in three years, according to Shahar.

Mr. Shahar added that there was a waiting list of businesses and individuals wanting to attend the seminar and (Ward Leonard) plans to have more seminars in the future.

About Ward Leonard CT LLC
Ward Leonard CT LLC provides highly engineered motors, controls and integrated solutions customized to solve difficult challenges for our customers in the Military, Energy and Heavy Industry worldwide. For more than 120 years, our products have harnessed power for complex, technical and mission-critical infrastructure applications in harsh environments. We are dedicated to total customer support and satisfaction, and to delivering benchmark performance, productivity and durability to our customers. To learn more about our products and services, or to speak with a Ward Leonard engineer, visit http://www.wardleonard.com