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Gumlink Stretches Chewing Gum Productivity With Microsoft Business Solutions - Axapta

Overview Gumlink A/S is continuing to produce chewing gum of the highest quality and has ambitions to become a major supplier to the medicinal chewing gum market. Gumlink has over 200 different recipes and 800 different products that it produces, packages and ships, so it really needs to have quick access to relevant information in order to effectively manage productivity. It implemented Microsoft Business Solutions - Axapta and increased productivity by 20 percent. Three months after Microsoft Axapta was installed, Gumlink experienced a record high manufacturing output and it lowered its inventory levels from DKK 150 million to DKK 90 million (US $24.6 million to US $14.7 million).

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	August 2007	Downloads	1
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Business Management

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