Champlain Cable Selects AXIS ERP Solution

High-Performance Cable Manufacturer to Implement AXIOM® Enterprise Resource Management System

Champlain Cable Corporation (Champlain Cable), a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance wire and cable, officially selected the AXIOM Enterprise Resource Management System as the company’s new management information system during Wire Expo 2006 and The Wire Association International 76th Annual Convention held in Boston, Mass., May 20-24.

Although Champlain Cable has used an early version of AXIS software since 1989, the company’s executives decided they would research the market for available ERP solutions before choosing their next generation business system. A number of products were evaluated before ultimately selecting today’s AXIOM solution, running on a Hewlett-Packard UNIX server and a network of Windows PCs.

“We’ve grown quite a bit since installing our current business system, and we considered selecting our next generation solution to be a strategic decision,” said Richard A. A. Hall, Champlain Cable president.

Al Clark, Champlain Cable IT director, added, “We looked at several different products in addition to the newest release of AXIOM, but it quickly became clear that the AXIS solution is the best fit for our cable manufacturing environment. The AXIS technology direction is well aligned with where we see [our business] going over the coming years.”

Peter Nicholson, Champlain Cable director of materials, also said, “AXIS has built a lot of new functionality into AXIOM since we first installed it years ago. A lot of powerful cable-specific capabilities are now standard in AXIOM. It’s obvious that AXIS has worked closely with wire and cable companies to understand and address unique industry needs.”

Champlain Cable will implement the full scope of foundation AXIOM applications, as well as the AXIOM eSuite Web-based customer service solution and advanced financial reporting and analysis capabilities.

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