1. Animal Supply Co. – Prophix story
Situation:
Company background: Animal Supply is the nation’s leading pet food and supplies distributor. Along with our partners Lone Star Pet Supply, Summit Pet Products and Wholesome Pet Distributors we operate eleven strategically located distribution centers with more than 800,000 square feet of total space, and provide weekly service to more than 5,000 pet specialty retailers throughout United States.
Website:
Industry: Wholesale and distribution
Operating since: 1987
Head office: Federal Way, Washington
G/L or ERP: Microsoft Dynamics GP
Business issue:
Currently, ASC utilizes a series of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets for financial reporting, consolidations and budgeting/forecasting. Due to the manual nature of Excel, ASC would like to streamline these processes using a centralized tool in order to meet current and future requirements.
Pain points: budgeting, reporting and consolidations.
Why did they select Prophix?
Complete CPM solution with ease of use and maintenance.
How will they be using Prophix?
Initially for Budgeting and reporting and financial consolidations in phase 2

2. Supporting data: Life cycle Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ New implementation YES
Implementation date: Q4 2013
☐ Preexisting customer
Original implementation date: ________________
☐ Existing customer, upgrading
Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ Agriculture, forestry, and fishing
☐ Professional services
☐ Financial services
☐ Retail
☐ Wholesale and distribution YES
☐ Telecommunications
☐ Healthcare
☐ Utilities
☐ Education
☐ Architecture, engineering, and construction
☐ Life science
☐ Transportation and logistics
☐ Manufacturing
☐ High tech
☐ Media and entertainment
☐ Government
☐ Non-profit

3. Supporting data: Solutions Capabilities ☐ Budgeting YES ☐ Automation
☐ Forecasting YES
☐ Prophix Mobile
☐ Reporting YES
☐ Data integration
☐ Strategic planning
☐ Business modeling
☐ Financial consolidation YES (planned)
☐ Microsoft platform integration
☐ Analysis
☐ Role-based security
☐ Profitability analysis
☐ Collaboration
☐ Personnel planning
☐ Flexible deployment
☐ Project planning
☐ Ad hoc reporting and visualization
☐ Revenue planning
☐ Capital expenditures planning
☐ Reporting and analytics
(dashboards and scorecards)