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Chinese precision
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January 2007
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The new 3,000m2 facility is located in the prestigious Export Processing Zone in the western suburbs of Chengdu. The facility started operations at the end of 2006 producing component parts for aerospace and high technology industries worldwide.
To operate at the highest levels of performance in global markets, Sigma has adopted a ‘green field’ approach, blending western management and quality control systems, with the benefits of a low cost economy and access to emerging markets. EFACS E/8 will be implemented as part of the management, business control and quality systems.
Mark Johnson Sigma’s managing director says: “Sigma’s management team has a wide experience in blue-chip aerospace companies and we wanted to choose a system which has a strong pedigree in the aerospace sector, to support our business. EFACS E/8 not only provides all the core functionality, but it can grow in to other areas such as CRM and Document Management within the same package.”
The implementation commenced at the end of 2006 and will go live on the first phase in little over two months. The project is being supported and implemented by consultants from Exel’s office in Suzhou near Shanghai, overseen by the support and implementation teams in the UK.
Johnson adds “Because EFACS E/8 can run in simplified or traditional Chinese and English concurrently and will support the Chinese accounting requirements, it was a clear choice out of the packages we looked at. Another key factor was that Exel employs Chinese consultants who are able to implement and support the system and are more able to relate to our own Chinese staff.”
As part of the implementation of the EFACS E/8 financials, the Nominal Ledger analysis codes and group code will have code descriptions in Chinese, in accordance with statutory requirements, and with secondary analysis codes in English via the EFACS E/8 Nominal Ledger report writer.
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Author
Chris Rowlands
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