As a leading supplier of specialty chemicals, Sika offers products and solutions for many construction applications. Sika's product lines include concrete admixtures, specialty mortars, concrete repair and protection systems, epoxies, structural strengthening systems, industrial flooring, waterproofing systems, and sealants and adhesives. In addition Sika is a leading supplier of high-quality solutions for sealing, bonding, damping and protection to the marine, automotive and transportation Industries.
The Dynamics AX solution has been chosen by Sika internationally for implementation in over 80 of its operating companies around the world.
One of the key gains at Sika was in relation to management of customer pricing. Sika has complex product pricing structures. Prices are handled in a variety of ways such as providing a discount percentage on the standard trade price or using a customer specific price. In addition, special pricing is setup for projects, and a further price differentiation is made based on the origin of the project. All these above mentioned requirements are managed by Dynamics AX’s price group functionality. The system calculates the prices accurately and automatically, with special promotions being date driven and the management of the pricing structures is simple.
Using Dynamics AX has enabled Sika to reduce the number of pricing lines required to manage this area by 60%; whilst maintaining their original pricing structure and adding additional flexibility.
Sika NZ has stringent reporting requirements in terms of reporting to group. Dynamics AX has given them the flexibility to reduce the size of their chart of accounts significantly whilst maintaining the level of detail required. With Dynamics AX’s financial dimension functionality users can easily report on various combinations of sub-codes required for group reporting whilst also having the flexibility to report the data at a lower level for management reporting.
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