Arjo Wiggins Qingdao Paper Co., Ltd. is joint ventures of Qingdao Paper Manufacturing Plants and Arjo Wiggins Carbonless Paper Co., Ltd., based in United Kingdom. Despite the foundation of joint venture in 1995, the joint venture has grown up to take about 30% of carbonless paper market share in China, with about 200 local staff.

In May 2000, ACCPAC Advantage Series 4.1 with MIS2000 4.1 was acquired to replace the previous accounting software to enhance the manufacturing management. The implementation of financial and operation suite of ACCPAC is just routine and similar to the other clients, but we met a particular trouble in setting up MISys2000 with all functionality levels.

Normally, a BOM is structured with the finished product as the Parent item, and the Parent item is made up of a variety of child items, the normal BOM structure can be illustrated as the following picture:

Very particularly, the finished product of Arjo Wiggins Qingdao is not assembled by a variety of components, but cut into from a reel of chemical-coated paper. In addition, a reel of chemical-coated paper can be cut into a variety of finished products with different width and length. The BOM structure can be illustrated as the following picture:

The project was implemented by two phases. The first phase took 3 months to set up the finance system and sales process with ACCPAC. During the first phase, Norming Consultants and the clients construct a new BOM to use MISys2000 standard functionality and eventually to suit the client 's business requirement. Based on the success of the first phase, we started the second phase that focused on the implementation of MISys2000. " This phase is a really tough job," said Bruce Li, " but we made it."