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Wellborn Cabinet, a leading manufacturer of kitchen and batch cabinetry in the United States, has selected SAP Business One for its dealer network. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE ’06.

Stanly Ezzell, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Wellborn Inc., said:

“We have invested in finding the very best possible solution available with a good cost/performance ratio. Our dealers are accepting it because they realize the potential and the support for their growth strategies it is providing. SAP Business One enables integration to provide high-level insight while easily drilling down to the low-level details for decision support services.”

Greg Scirrotto, owner of LaBella Kitchens, one of Wellborn’s dealers in Florida, said:

“Many of us have reached the limits of the systems we are currently working with and need a solution that can support our business strategy for growth, with SAP Business One, we found all the business management functionality we need in an easy-to-use application that allows us to focus on the business and not on the technology.”

Michael Sotnick, senior vice president, Small and Midsize Enterprises, SAP America, Inc., said:

“We are committed to working alongside Wellborn and its dealers as they are realizing a strategy of close integration and further growth within their network, working together with our partners ASE and IMG Americas we will support Wellborn’s present and future demands and jointly bring their business to the next level of success.”

I see that Wellborn already is an SAP user since 2003. Wellborn expects several hundred installations across its dealer network to move to SAP Business One over the next 24 months to achieve integration with the mySAP Business Suite deployment at its headquarters. I think first integration scenario would be order management. Take order from dealer (SAP Business One); process the order automatically on SAP (SD), check inventory (MM), if requires open PP order (PP), get payment (FI), etc…

This announcement makes SAP to take one step forward among its competitors Oracle, Microsoft in middleware enterprise market.

Some questions come to mind:

How many dealers does Wellborn have? It means how many SAP Business One installations.

SAP tells SAP Business One is for small and midsize businesses and it is easy to install and implement. Does it require consulting – I think so – but how many days?

Actually I need to write an article about SAP Business One. I just let me tell you that SAP Business One is not an SAP’s own product. It has come to SAP with an acquisition. I wonder that whether ABAP has been used for it or something else.

Here are the success stories of Wellborn’s SAP implementation:

• SAP Customer Success Story – [pdf] Mill Products and Cabinetry: Wellborn Cabinet
• Hitachi Consulting – [pdf] Case Study: Wellborn Cabinet, Inc.

Customer: Wellborn Cabinet Inc. and its dealers
Headquarter: Ashland, AL - USA
SAP Products: SAP Business One, mySAP Business Suite
Project: Installation and implementation of SAP Business One; integration between Wellborn’s mySAP Business Suite and its dealers’ SAP Business One.
Consulting Provider: Automated Solutions Enterprises (ASE) and IMG Americas Inc.

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