Retail and Hospitality

Nursery reaps benefits of Dynamics NAV

16 May 2008

Bordine Nursery, a Michigan-based company that grows, wholesales and retails garden products and nursery stock, has chosen Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 as its accounting system.

Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Integrated Software Systems, Bordine will implement Microsoft Dynamics NAV in place of its previous Infor ERP FACTS supply chain management software.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is expected to provide an array of benefits including business-wide integration of all the information from Bordine’s four locations into a single database. This reduces redundancy and results in fewer opportunities for erroneous entries, and thus improves the accuracy of data. Bordine also anticipates more timely information from the new reporting capabilities derived from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV’s forms and reports.

“Our system reporting was archaic and limited in the information we could pull,” Phil Tomczak, vice president of financial administration for Bordine Nursery said. “Now managers will be able to generate their own customised reports.”

Bordine will also be able to easily mine data from its customer loyalty-card programme to provide its marketing department with information on buying patterns.

In addition, the manufacturing capability of Microsoft Dynamics NAV will allow Bordine to use one database to do sales planning, leading to a calculation of production demand, which generates purchase orders for raw materials and a production schedule, resulting in finished materials for inventory.

“Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps specialised companies like Bordine Nursery grow profitability and efficiency as they grow their products,” said Michael Park, corporate vice president for US Dynamics Business at Microsoft. “Evolving from systems with islands of data to fully integrated information sources across a company plants the seed for cultivating better business intelligence, more accurate and rapid reporting, and ultimately products that are more responsive to market demand.”