Avionic Services buys £35,000 K3 MFW ERP

Avionic Services, which provides air traffic control equipment and airfield ground lighting, as well as systems integration and consultancy services around the world, has ordered £35,000 worth of Micross for Windows (MFW) manufacturing control software from K3. The 10-user NT system will go live in June this year in just three months, and will replace Excel spreadsheets and run alongside Sage accounts software. Says Martin Read, sales and marketing manager, “Being a small firm we are inherently flexible and need to respond quickly to quotation and other customer requests.” He says the firm evaluated four systems before choosing K3’s MFW. Avionic expects it to improve visibility and tracking of orders and lead times, as well as cost and stock control, also transforming manufacturing efficiency and centralising its procurement. Avionic, which now employs 55, of which 40 are engineers, has doubled in size in the last four years, with current revenues of £2.4 million.