Separate systems
QuickBooks, inventory and shipping software each held part of the picture.
SAP Business One Case Study
How Rifle Paper Co., a stationery and gift brand in Winter Park, Florida, moved from QuickBooks and separate inventory and shipping software to SAP Business One.
About Rifle Paper Co.
Rifle Paper Co. sells stationery, wrapping paper, notebooks and other gifts. A husband and wife team started the company out of their Florida apartment with roughly 50 products. It grew into a global business with products in more than 4,000 retail stores.
The Challenge
As Rifle Paper Co. grew, disconnected IT systems made it hard to keep up with demand. Its data sat in separate tools, including QuickBooks and other inventory and shipping software.
Inventory did not update as soon as an order was entered, and that time lag could delay order fulfillment. The business was also growing internationally, with more users across multiple locations.
Rifle needed one scalable system to unify its processes and grow with the business.
QuickBooks, inventory and shipping software each held part of the picture.
Inventory updates trailed order entry, which could hold up fulfillment.
More users in multiple locations needed to work in the same system.
The disconnected setup made it hard to keep pace as the brand grew.
The Solution
Rifle compared SAP Business One with NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics and Epicor. It chose SAP Business One for its capabilities and simpler user interface, and deployed it with Third Wave Business Systems.
SAP Business One manages financials, inventory, customer and supplier accounts, planning and production requirements, and purchasing. Rifle could customize it to fit its processes. Its people and processes now work from the same centralized data.
Rifle integrated add-ons for e-commerce, credit card processing and shipping with SAP Business One. Orders and shipping run on the same system as planning and production.
Rifle and Third Wave brought SAP Business One live in stages. The staged implementation kept the rollout smooth.
Centralized data gives Rifle deeper insight into the business. Rifle can now plan and adjust for seasonal demand.
SAP Business One can take on more users across multiple locations as Rifle grows internationally. The platform can grow with the business.
Rifle Paper Co.’s director of enterprise systems on how one shared system supports the company’s growth.
The Result
Centralized data now connects Rifle's work from planning and production to orders and shipping, which frees up time for its team.
An application that can grow with the business.
Centralized data from planning and production to orders and shipping.
Deeper business insight to plan and adjust for seasonal demand.
E-commerce, credit card processing and shipping tied to SAP Business One.