North American Metalcasters Ready for Business

 

For Immediate Release
Contact: Alexandria Trusov
Email: atrusov@blinfo.com

 

NORTH AMERICAN METALCASTERS READY FOR BUSINESS

B&L Information Systems Grows the Odyssey Family

Bridgman, Michigan, April 4, 2017 - B&L Information Systems, global leader in ERP software for metalcasters, is proud to announce additions to the Odyssey family of customers, both new signings and customers now installed with Odyssey.

In the first 90 days of the 2017, three current B&L customers have signed on to switch from AS-400 based BLIS software to the browser-based Odyssey ERP system: Aarrowcast, Inc of Shawano, Wisconsin; California Castings of Richmond, California; and Lemfco, Inc of Galena, Illinois. The metalcasting industry specific Odyssey ERP advantage also attracted a customer new to the B&L fold, Alcon Industries of Cleveland, Ohio.

"B&L's BLIS customers saw the advantage of a metalcasting-specific ERP software years ago and signed on with B&L," said Matt Gacek, Vice President - Business Development at B&L Information Systems. "With the conversions to Odyssey, we are seeing B&L customers who are ready to move to the next business level and want all the technology benefits a modern, fully-integrated ERP system can offer with all the data needed to run a business in one system. These are the customers who are planning for the next generation of business. The built-in business data access of Odyssey will prepare them with better information to take full advantage of business opportunities and upturns."

Also in Q1 2017, B&L's Professional Services Department brought four additional customers online with Odyssey ERP software implementations. Among the "go-lives" were several former BLIS customers who had upgraded to Odyssey: Rochester Metal Products of Rochester, Indiana, and Metal Technologies Incorporated's Ravenna location. Additionally, Fonderie Poitras of L'islet, Quebec in Canada installed Odyssey as their first full ERP system as did Cushman Foundry of Cincinnati, Ohio in an accelerated 28 day "go-live". As a newer foundry organization, Cushman needed to be able to scale up quickly to ship product and receive payment; Odyssey allowed them the flexibility they needed to install and start using what they needed quickly.

As U.S. manufacturing sees positive administrative changes for manufacturers, B&L Information Systems is proud to have equipped over half a dozen additional metalcasters to make better informed decisions using Odyssey in the first quarter of 2017.

   

About B&L Information Systems
B&L Information Systems is a global leader in providing integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) for metalcasters. Since 1976, B&L has used their deep understanding of the specific challenges and problems of foundries and die casters to create an ERP solution which matches the way metalcasters operate, making it easier to learn and use. With Odyssey, metalcasters will maximize their resources, minimize costs, and make better decisions faster.