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Extract Technology specialises in the manufacturing of containment solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. The company is renowned for its product range and has an expanding aftermarket division that is growing by 10 per cent year-on-year. 

Extract Technology is owned by the $300 million turnover Walker Group Holdings, a make-to-order, configure-to-order business, providing high quality turnkey containment solutions. The company uses SYSPRO as a key management tool to help drive the business forward. The system replaced an off-site hosted Sage accounting package that was shared with another company up to the time of its sale to another group.

Jason Armitage, Chief Financial Officer and Martin Price, Business Process Manager of Extract Technology, acknowledge that this success is supported by SYSPRO ERP. Extract Technology use the Quotations module throughout their aftermarket business. It is an extremely quick and accurate way to work and allows their team to maximise time spent on customer service and sales. A key feature of the system is SYSPRO’s Projects & Contracts module. This enables Extract Technology to gain complete visibility of costs from beginning to end of each contract. With SYSPRO, Extract Technology has been able to identify the status of each contract allowing the company to manage margins. 

For make-to-order and configure-to-order contracts they use the module to set up a job for each product. There is on average 2 to 8 jobs created for the products involved, which they tie together into one contract. This also covers high value purchased equipment required for the contract. The cost of the equipment can be as low as £8,000 but will reach as much as £250,000 for larger items. 

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