1. GSG Fasteners – Prophix story
Operating since: 1802
Head office: Clarksville, Georgia
Annual revenue: > $50 million
Number of employees: Unknown
G/L or ERP: BPCS
Company website:
Company background:
Scovill Fasteners, founded in 1802, is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of a diverse range of Apparel and light Industrial fasteners that meet the demands of many applications requiring quality and durability. From product design to delivery to application, products offered include premium buttons, zippers, snap fasteners, grommets and washers as well as attaching machine equipment and expert technical support. In addition, Scovill offers custom metal stamping for various markets requiring metal components for finished products.
Business problems that lead to evaluating CPM, adopting Prophix:
Conducted all of their financial processes (mostly budgeting and forecasting) in Excel
Budget revenues by customer level and by SKU level
They forecast their revenues weekly based on this information
Every week, their Controller would manually enter their actual data (sales/revenue, etc. by customer and SKU). This took a lot of time

2. GSG Fasteners – Prophix story
Their Prophix solution:
Personnel cube: they budget by employee.
Finance cube: monthly reporting. Annual budgets.
Revenue cube: source of most of their analysis. Weekly forecasts. Analyze price per unit. Quantities sold- actuals compared to budgeted figures. Sales analysis.
They slice and dice throughout to analyze scenarios
Future plans:
ODBC connection and drill across exists for their finance cube, but not for their revenue cube.
They will look to build these capabilities in Q

3. Supporting data: Life cycle Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ New implementation
Implementation date:
☐ Preexisting customer YES
Original implementation date: Q3 2012
☐ Existing customer, upgrading
Original implementation date: ________________
Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ Agriculture, forestry, and fishing
☐ Professional services
☐ Financial services
☐ Retail
☐ Wholesale and distribution
☐ Telecommunications
☐ Healthcare
☐ Utilities
☐ Education
☐ Architecture, engineering, and construction
☐ Life science
☐ Transportation and logistics
☐ Manufacturing YES
☐ High tech
☐ Media and entertainment
☐ Government
☐ Non-profit

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