The manufacturer, known for brands such as Anolon, Circulon, Essteele, RACO and KitchenAid, will use the software to improve work flow efficiency and automate supply chain processes. Implementation began in October 2010 and is expected to go-live in June 2011.

The company looked at several vendors, including SAP and Microsoft Dynamics, before choosing Pronto's product.

"We had a lot of add-on modules in our legacy system, that weren't fully integrated, which was severely impacting our business growth and creating an issue with data integrity," Meyer Cookware Australia's finance director, Stuart Gunst, said. "We needed an integrated system that would deliver process efficiencies, as there was a lot of double and triple handling of data."

Gunst said the company also wanted to integrate IBM's business intelligence (BI) suite, Cognos 10.

"When we made our final decision, Pronto had just confirmed it was going to be the first ERP vendor to embed IBM Cognos 10 out of the box," he said, adding the ability to "slice and dice" data and provide greater business visibility was also important.