Northwest Association
Compared to other providers who work with independent industry standards, this meant significantly less effort in planning for the Maine GmbH. Advantages could be gained also for investment security of Microsoft DynamicsTM solution. Existing Microsoft products can be integrated optimally using this solution. For the cooperation with the GWS also said the financial model, which is based on monthly fees, as well as existing interfaces to other portals, such as the Northwest Association and large customers, the SAP in the usage. “Petra Kuhaupt: by working closely with large industrial customers simple and secure transfers of product, financial, and catalog data between applications are important for us”. Through the steady and fast growth of the company, a rapid adjustment of the high performance of the ERP system was essential.
Data storage and care by hosting the Maine GmbH opted, in addition to the implementation of the new ERP for a complete outsourcing of the application software. Petra Kuhaupt: We are sure to improve the IT operations through the bundled storage and the central service of the GWS. In addition we can access through the centralized data storage from all locations and also on all applications”.
GWS Gesellschaft fur merchandise management systems mbH was founded in 1992. Today over 200 employees work at the sites of Munster, Munich, Nuremberg and Karlsruhe. As a Microsoft GOLD CERTIFIED partner, the GWS specializes on the development, networking, support and optimization of inventory control and composite systems for trade and service companies.More than 1000 customers use products of GWS. Among them are interconnected companies both from the commercial and the agricultural sector. In addition to the standard software products and standardised solutions offers the GWS industry portals and Internet shops. Comprehensive consulting services and training courses complete the range of services. 2006 amounted to EUR 23 million sales.