"Our users [told us] that the old system could no longer fulfill our business needs as the company continued to grow," said Raymond Leung, Hayco's vice president for operations. "They urged our management to look for a better system that could provide more functions to improve our planning and reporting processes. After reviewing different ERP systems, we decided to use mySAP ERP."

The company's previous ERP system was increasingly expensive because costs included a server rental based on a per-user basis. More critically, it could no longer fulfill pressing business needs. The management wanted an ERP program capable of supporting long-term business planning, so the decided to implement the new SAP system in the group's Song Gang factory on the mainland as well as the Hong Kong headquarters.

The new ERP needed to support Hayco's intensive new product design and development cycle. As much as 60 percent of the company's business is Original Design Manufacturing (ODM), and Hayco employs 120 engineers in R&D to help customers get new product ideas to market as quickly as possible. To keep up with consumer demand, Hayco needed to shorten its time-to-market for new product designs from a year to under six months.

Implementation

Hayco's implementation partner for the project was the Oasis Consulting Group, and the SAP system is installed on an HP DL350 server running MS: SQL Server 2000. Hayco started implementing the mySAP ERP system in August 2004 and the system was fully operational from May 2005.