Z Nautic to deploy multi-tenant cloud ERP system

Z Nautic Group, the French inflatables specialist formerly known as Zodiac, is deploying a new multi-tenant ERP system (Infor CloudSuite Equipment) specifically designed for equipment manufacturers, dealers and rental companies in order to optimise business processes.

The news follows the group’s demerger and relocation of its French production unit to Tunisia, events that caused it to lose control of its IT tool in terms of distribution, equipment management and tracking of boats by serial number.

“There were three main reasons for this choice,” says Anthony Chapeltegui, Z Nautic’s IT manager. “The first was Infor’s ability to offer us standard business functionalities that were perfectly adapted to our equipment sales (including rental), spare parts management, procurement and stock management issues. The second is our desire to switch to a SaaS mode configuration for security, scalability, simplicity and reliability. The last is the integration of embedded analytical modules to be able, in the long term, to give our users control over the production of tables and reports, particularly by geographical area and by product.”

The solution, deployed in a multi-tenant cloud environment, will allow Z Nautic to eliminate time-consuming maintenance and upgrade processes for its IT team.

Z Nautic says that around 130 users will be working with the new Infor CloudSuite Equipment solution by the end of 2021. For the time being, all functions that will use the new system (finance, production, sales, marketing, quality, product management, purchasing and supply) have participated in a series of remote training workshops organised by Hetic 3 and have validated the choice of the tool.

“We were impressed by the user-friendly interface offered by Infor. It has won over our teams, taking them from the stone age to the digital age, with customised settings and displays to meet individual needs,” Chapeltegui adds. ”Combined with strong process automation and workflow capabilities, we expect rapid performance gains once the solution is deployed and ultimately benefit from better knowledge of our dealers through improved data centralisation, as well as our time and budget.”

The deployment of a customer and partner configurator is also expected to eventually offer greater fluidity and efficiency in terms of customisation and choice of options, but also management of associated parts, when building a boat.