Five Star Group of Companies

Five Star Group of Companies has taken the Big Leap from Manual Process to a Robust Information Infrastructure Support

Quick Facts:

• Companies: Five Star Marketing, Yellow Sea Marketing, and Oakwell Trading Company
• Industry : group of companies engaged in export and import, wholesale and retail of construction supplies
• Company Size : Medium-Sized

Five Star Marketing, Yellow Sea Marketing, and Oakwell Trading Company are belonging in a single group of companies engaged in export and import, wholesale and retail of construction supplies.
Five Star Marketing was established way back June 22, 1987; Yellow Sea Marketing was created last June 30, 1993; while Oakwell Trading Company was organized last August 01, 2001.

The Challenges

With the increasing demands in technology and in order to endure the stiff competition, the company decided to take the big leap and geared themselves with vigorous information infrastructure. They’ve realize that things will get better if they’ll give up manual process and make a wise investment through undergoing computerization.

They sought for a prudent solution. They have this attitude that for every move they are going to make, they wanted to assure that it is done in a frugal way, something that they won’t regret and put the company’s best interest in danger. Every peso they will take out of the company’s treasury will commensurate to achieving the intended purpose to where the money is invested on.

• Streamline Business Process. Develop standardized procedure for every transaction.
• Coordinating Information. Find a way to improve the quality of information by incorporating all activities and activities into one system.
• Managing Growth. Find a software solution that could meet the needs of Five Star as it grew.

The Solutions

IT Group implemented ComUnion on high-performance, highly scalable technologies. ComUnion enables full access to company production planning, stock, sales order system, and more.

• Adoption of ComUnion ERP System. A full implementation of ComUnion System platform.
• Integration. All operational activities were integrated into ComUnion.
• Customizations. Customized to its specific and growing needs.
• Improve network structure. Fixed the LAN and WAN connections.

The Results

With better technical performance, the company expects to increased productivity as sales staff complete orders more quickly. Five Star can provide information on pricing and availability in real time, and could cater more customers as they can now optimize their time.

• Integrated and Accurate Information System. With the integration of the information system, Five Star can now pinpoint problems and deal with them more quickly.
• Reduction in Data Redundancy. Information is entered once and it is available throughout the system.
• Fewer Data Entry Errors.

With ComUnion, Five Star Group of Companies could now work more efficiently. The companies’ business processes were streamlined. After acquiring for ComUnion, things had never been the same. ITG having an extensive IT and business process background, fixed their LAN and WAN connection in order to improve their network structure. For ITG, seeing their client has greatly improved its business operation is a great accomplishment on their part as well.