Press Release: Maple Systems help Spyker production company CPP along road to success

 A Coventry IT firm is on the road to success after it completed a quartet of deals with automotive and engineering firms.Maple Systems, based in Westwood Business Park, Torwood Close, has recently completed a deal to supply specialist software to CPP (Manufacturing) Ltd, which produces bodies and final assembly for Dutch supercar manufacturer Spyker.The deal with Wheler Road-based CPP, which also carries out work for Aston Martin, Rolls Royce, Bentley and Jaguar Landrover, follows on from a major software installation for the car manufacturer of one of the latest F1 teams and recent deals with local car component companies Axon Automotive and XK Engineering.Maple Systems will now help CPP to integrate enterprise resource planning (ERP) software Sage 200 into its manufacturing processes for a wide range of customer car build programmes, parts manufacture and special projects.CPP has also recruited Andrew Briggs recently, an IT systems professional to lead the multi-site implementation programme of Sage 200 ERP.The software performs tasks such as automatically re-ordering parts as necessary and will allow the automotive firm to run its manufacturing processes more efficiently and avoid unnecessary delays or costs.Alan Alcock, IT strategy consultant to CPP, said: “We have been using Sage 50, the software package below this, for around seven years now but as the business has grown so have the technical demands of the company.“We run a large and diverse operation which means this software is essential to help us manage and run the building processes as efficiently as possible.“There are around ten car assembly stations and various production cells for parts ranging from doors to exterior bright-ware at our plant in operation at any one time.“If one of these is held up for any reason the whole production line could be hindered and we are keen to operate as efficiently as possible.“I have been working in IT for over 40 years in the automotive sector and this programme is a proven software product we knew we could trust and Maple Systems were able to provide a quality service at an affordable price – which made this the most viable solution for us.”Maple Systems will help CPP to make a smooth transition from Sage 50 to the new Sage 200 system over the coming weeks.Nic Rowley, business solutions manager for Maple Systems, said he was delighted that the company had added another prestigious name to its growing list of automotive clients.“To have secured yet another contract of this scale is a great achievement for us - especially when we consider the size of some of our competitors in this field,” he said.“It is also nice to be working closely with a local company based in the city and we are looking forward to the task in hand.“This is the fourth contract of its kind we have taken on in around an 18-month period - which is a fantastic endorsement of the quality and affordability of the software and our service.”

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