Manufacturing

Spring Air plump up ERP capabilities

28 November 2007

The Spring Air Company, the world's fourth-largest innerspring bedding manufacturer has selected Microsoft Dynamics AX to integrate its manufacturing, distribution, financial, budgeting and procurement activities across the entire organisation.

The Spring Air Company recently merged with Consolidated Bedding Incorporated to create a national organisation with 13 facilities in the US and more than 1,000 employees. Spring Air also has licensees in North and South Carolina, Michigan, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Ireland, Australia and the Middle East.

"We have to be sure we can receive orders, manufacture the product, and get it to our customers on time, and Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 was the best enterprise resource planning (ERP) manufacturing application available to us," said Paul Davis, vice president of IT at Spring Air. "Overall, it matched what we needed and we liked the technology behind it. We knew Microsoft would support it long term."

Spring Air chose Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Tribridge as its implementation partner. "With its great history and performance in this area, we knew Tribridge would do an incredible job helping us drive this project," Davis said.

"With Microsoft Dynamics AX, the Spring Air Company will significantly improve the efficiency of its manufacturing and delivery operations, as well as the performance of its back office," said Michael Park, corporate vice president for Microsoft's US Dynamics business. "For a nationwide manufacturer like Spring Air, Microsoft Dynamics AX is the perfect way to integrate information from many facilities to produce cost savings and better products for consumers."