FV Plast

ABRA BI lets the company get a report by pressing a single button.

How does ABRA Gen help?

Automates common business processes.
ABRA BI allows you to track the evolution of stock inventories over time, work with your current turnover report, manager’s accounting, flexibly respond to information on receivables and trade payables, etc.
Data in ABRA BI is live, online, and available from any device and accessible online.
Allow customization for individual business needs, such as when creating reports or adding custom fields.

FIELD	Production, Sales, Warehouse, BI
EMPLOYEES	180
ANNUAL TURNOVER	730 mil. CZK
PLACE	Central Bohemian Region
WEB	www.fv-plast.cz

ABRA BI is a tool for online reporting in FV Plast, but also a source of data for further work. Management uses the business intelligence portal to support management on the controlling, trading, logistics and manufacturing level.

David Behner

Business Director for the Czech and Slovak Republic, FV Plast a.s.

“Information from ABRA BI fulfilled our expectations. From the reports segmented according to individual markets, we have efficiently and precisely found out what our most-sold assortment is.”

FV Plast a.s., a traditional Czech manufacturer of plastic piping systems specializing in the production of plastic pipes, fittings and fittings for water, air and central and floor heating. Ing. Kamil Mahovsky, CEO of FV Plast, characterizes the company: “At present, we are the second largest supplier on the domestic market. At 2 plants we operate on 6000 m2 of production halls and with 180 employees we produce an annual turnover of CZK 730 million. Eighty percent of our production goes abroad to more than 48 countries worldwide.”

BUSINESS SYSTEM
Until 2008, the ABRA Gen information system in FV Plast was only used for statutory agendas. This year, the company’s management decided to use the functions of the company management support system more efficiently.

CUSTOM ERP
FV Plastic started to actively adapt the information system to its specific requirements. It has been able to automate many of the tasks, and better use its existing information infrastructure to its advantage. “ In Gen, I appreciate the customization option for our individual needs, such as when creating reports or adding custom fields,” says Ing. David Behner, Business Director for the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
The information system is now closely interconnected with the Business Intelligence application, ABRA BI. “It helps not only the department of controlling, but also trade, production and logistics. The biggest benefit is that ABRA BI data is live, online, and available from any device and with remote access. Importantly, the information in ABRA BI is unified, and they all work with the same numbers,” explains the benefits of reporting David Behner, who primarily watches over ABRA BI executions.

ABRA Gen
is used in FV Plast primarily for accounting, warehousing, pricing, trade and revenue and cost control. David Behner evaluates linking to the ABRA BI reporting tool: “I’m glad we’re using a system that’s simple and gets along great with ABRA.” ABRA BI allows you to monitor various parameters in full operation and then

track the evolution of stock inventory over time
work with your current turnover report, manager’s accounting,
flexible response to information on trade receivables and payables, etc.

DAILY WORK WITH IGATE
A technical view of working with the reporting tool is provided by Miroslav Cerny, Information Systems Specialist at FV Plast: “Before using ABRA BI we had to organize and consolidate data in the information system first. Subsequently, we started to create reporting sets. Now, we use, among other things, 4 fully automated reports that have previously been in controlling for several days. Today, ABRA BI is not only used for reporting but also as a data source for other specialized work such as in Excel. I can see retrospectively that thanks to ABRA BI we have learned about more features of the ABRA information system.”

Miroslav Černý

Information system specialist, FV Plast a.s.

“ABRA BI gives us information on the inventory of our whole assortment in the form of graphs within seconds, literally a click away. In the past, we were obtaining the same for hours up to 3 days.”

HISTORY OF THE COMPANY
The history of Plastics FV dates back to 1990 when Mr. Vondráček started to be a natural person in the field of water distribution materials. In 2005, FV Plast revitalized the old factory in Čelákovice, where it then relocated its production. The company has established itself well in new markets, expanding its turnover as well as its product portfolio. In 2008, the offer to sell the company to a multinational group came in. Mr. Vondráček decided to keep the company in Czech hands and to restructure it at the same time. FV Plast became a joint stock company and four new shareholders began to systematically prepare the company for further development, growth in production and sales and expansion to other global markets.

THE FUTURE OF FV PLAST
Kamil Mahovsky sees the future of the company clearly: “When you say “plastic pipe” so many people will just imagine a simple pipe, but the issue is much wider. Now we are only moving in certain segments, mainly internal pressure distributions, but there are a few areas where FV Plast can be further developed. The company’s business strategy will be based on 4 pillars in the coming years:

Manifolds – FV Aqua,
Heating – FV Therm,
Renewable heat sources – FV Energeo,
Infrastructure – FV Infra.

BUSINESS SUCCESS
FV Plast bases its entrepreneurial success on listening to those who work with the products every day, e.g. plumbers and assembly companies. That way they can offer them exactly the solutions they really need for their work.

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