Client Success Profiles

Buono Vita is a manufacturer of meat balls and other food items.  They are the supplier behind one of the largest suppliers of meat ball sandwiches in the United States.  They are using Great Plains Standard on the SQL Server database.  The are using some Eastern Business Solutions customizations that automatically converts cases to pounds and does custom tracking of salesperson commissions.

EKS Parts is a supplier of parts and service for boilers heating systems.  They also do new installations.  They use Great Plains Standard on the Pervasive database.

Eric Armin Inc is a supplier of calculators and timing devices to the education market.  They use Great Plains Professional on SQL Server.

A supplier of stair building materials and tools.  They use GPA for DOS on a Novell Network but are switching over to Great Plains Professional.

Garden State manufactures highway signs, like stop signs, yield sign, etc.  They are using Eastern Business Solutions customizations for their signs.  Since many of their signs are custom ones, the customization pops up on each line of Sales Order Processing.  Into this extra window, they add all the pertinent sign information.  When the order is complete, they print out a job sheet that list all the details the shop needs to make the signs.  They are using Great Plains Professional.

They are currently using GPA for DOS on a Novell network.

They supply plastic compounds to the injection molding industry.  The use Great Plains Standard with the SQL Server database.

J & L supplies food items to small grocery stores.  They are using a completely custom Eastern Business Solutions order entry system that interfaces with GPA for DOS on a Novell Network.

J. Spinelli & Sons uses a completely custom Eastern Business Solutions system for their trucking business.  This system interfaces with  GPA for DOS.  They are running on a Novell network.

John C. Ernst is a manufacturer of solutions for process and steam.  They use Great Plains Standard on the Pervasive database.

Len-Dor sells OSHA Signs, Tapes, safety labels, pipe markers, wire markers, bar code labels, printers & scanners.  They use GPA for DOS with two Eastern Business Solutions customizations on a Novell Network.  One is a pop-up that lets them quickly view customers orders and invoices from anywhere in Great Plains.  The other customization makes it easy to order only those items that are selling.  This allows them to minimize their inventory while still provide prompt customer deliveries.

Macalaster Bicknell Co of NJ, Inc is a major supplier of borosilicate glass tubing, rod & blanks to the glass industry.  They also supply color borosilicate rod to the glass artist and laboratory equipment and supplies to the food, R&D and pharmaceutical industries.. They use Great Plains Standard on the MSDE database.

Mitchell Hardware Co. is a supplier of high-end decorative hardware and bath specialties.  They sell these items retail and they also sell them wholesale to kitchen and bath retailers.  To residential builders the sell fireplaces, shower doors, mirrors, bathrooms, and wire closet shelving.  They sell hollow metal doors and frames, wood doors, commercial hardware, toilet room partitions, washroom accessories, fire extinguishers, cabinets, lockers, entrance mats, chalk, tack and marker boards to schools.  Mitchell Hardware has two New Jersey locations...one in Hurffville and the other in Somers Point.

They Great Plains Standard on the Pervasive  with the Citrix Meta-Frame for their Somers Point location on a Windows NT network.  They are also using a couple Eastern Business Solutions customizations.  One allows them automates creating new inventory items from inside Purchase Order Processing and Sales Order Processing.  Another customization automates calculating and take the deposit in customer back orders.  A third helps to easy the data entry work when they do their physical count each year.

Polyvel is a manufacturer of plastic additives. They use Great Plains for Pervasive on a Windows NT network.  Stations are Windows 98/2000/XP.

Quaker State Tube makes fixtures for bathrooms and kitchens.  They use GPA for DOS on a Novell Network with a Eastern Business Solutions customization to print invoices showing customer discounts in a particular format.

R. E. Cummines is a supplier of building materials to builders, contractors, and home owners.  They use GPA for DOS.  They also use a Eastern Business Solutions pop-up that gives them instant access to all customer orders and the last price each customer paid for each item.

Richland Glass is a manufacturer of small glass components to the electronics industry. They use Great Plains Standard on the SQL Server database.  They use the Integration Manger to download transactions to Receivables, Payables, and the General Leger from their WinMAGI manufacturing software.  They also download customer and vendor updates through the integration manger.

A Philadelphia-based investment advisor, Rorer specializes in investing in large and mid-cap equities and fixed income securities for both institutional and individual clients. They use Great Plains Professional.  They have an Access program written by their CPA firms that uses the Integration Manager to bring their billings into Receivables. They also use a Eastern Business Solutions customization to import their cash receipts from an Excel spreadsheet and automatically apply those cash receipts to the correct invoices.  It also automatically enters required debt and credit memos to keep customer accounts clean.

South Jersey Economic Development District is a quasi governmental agency that provide financing for promising businesses.  They use GPA for DOS on a Novell Network.

SWK is an manufacturer of both hot melt and cold set adhesives.  They use Great Plains Standard on the Pervasive Database.  They use a Eastern Business Solutions customization that enhances the Great Plains Bill of Material module to accommodate dynamic bill of material and printing process flow sheets.

United Asphalt is a manufacturer of roofing materials for wholesale distribution.  They use Great Plains Standard on the SQL Server database.

Universal Marketing is distributor of commercial foodservice equipment. Specializing in freezers, refrigerators, bake and pizza ovens, drink dispensers, and granita machines.  They use GPA for DOS on a Novell network.

Worldwide Telecom is a suppler of telecommunications systems for "commercial" use.  They use GPA for DOS on a Windows 2000 network.