Client

Neopost is a pioneer in the development and evolution of mailing and logistics equipment technology.  With 3000 employees, Neopost is the number-one supplier of mailroom equipment in Europe and the second largest in the world.

 

Business Challenge

Neopost was preparing for sustained growth, global operations,  and an IPO, and the legacy systems could not support their needs for scalability, multi-site operations, integrated business processes, timely access to information, and financial reporting.

 

Why Quovera?

On the business side, Quovera had experience deploying best practices.  On the technical side, our Development Methodology, our reusable code components, and our experience with large-scale custom development projects gave a lot of confidence to Neopost.  And we had managed projects of this magnitude, bringing much-needed change management skills to this complex project.

 

Business Benefits / System Characteristics

·          Replacement of obsolete and disparate custom software enterprise system (developed over 15 years) with integrated, scalable Oracle Applications as the foundation- this will result in reduced IT support costs over time

·          Integrated business flows: Order Entry, to Invoicing, to Collections, to General Ledger, to Commissions

·          Ability to dispatch nationwide repair, ordering of parts, billing for service calls.

·          Automation of 30 branch offices nationwide for online inventory tracking.

·          Support of leased equipment interfacing to LeasePak.

·          Redesigned contracts system to support periodic billing for maintenance and rental of equipment

·          Data conversion of over 10 years of historical transactions and 300,000 customers

·          Over 2500 person-days of new development

 

Technologies and Solutions

·          Oracle Financials, Purchasing, Order Entry, Shipping, and Inventory Management

·          Kintana (Chainlink) for development framework

·          Team size: 

·          Quovera- 1 PM, 4 functional consultants, 15 senior developers.

·          Neopost -10 IT resources (analysts,developers,QA), 20 functional superusers, 200 end-users

• Engagement completion: 24 calendar months