Badger Color Invests in IQMS Manufacturing ERP Software to Gain the Visibility to Grow Its Business Efficiently

March 20, 2018

Manufacturer turns to IQMS integrated ERP and MES system to improve
visibility throughout the company, including inventory, production
processes, and customer satisfaction

PASO ROBLES, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#ERP—IQMS,
a leading manufacturing ERP
software and manufacturing
execution system (MES) authority, today announced that Badger Color
Concentrates Inc. has selected IQMS to gain the company-wide visibility
needed to grow its business efficiently.

Badger Color, an industry leader in master-batch and liquid color
manufacturing for the plastics industry, is implementing IQMS
EnterpriseIQ software, which uniquely combines robust enterprise
resource planning (ERP) and MES functionality into one comprehensive
system. The move to IQMS supports Badger Color’s drive to gain
visibility and insights into key areas of the business that are critical
to supporting the company’s continued growth, including inventory,
production processes, and customer satisfaction.

Maintaining Visibility Across Multiple Custom Orders

For two decades, Badger Color has been an innovator in formulating
colors for a range of markets—from packaging to architectural and
automotive, among others. The company has built its business on
providing plastics molders the most advanced and vibrant colors
available, constantly refining its processes to match the colors
customers want with the materials they have chosen. An on-site color
matching room even simulates different lighting conditions, so a
manufacturer can specify the exact color that a product will have under
the specific lighting conditions in which it will appear. Applying this
highly customized approach means Badger Color produces thousands of
different solutions for its customers worldwide every year.

As Badger Color’s business continued to grow, the company began to
struggle with the limitations of its previous ERP system, leaving gaps
in visibility across its Mukwonago, Wisconsin headquarters, as well as
its manufacturing facilities in Wisconsin and North Carolina. By 2015,
Badger Color began adding people to compensate for the ERP system’s lack
of functionality for managing the end-to-end process of each customer’s
order, creating additional overhead. The company soon realized it was
time to reinvent the process, and invest in new software, to increase
efficiency and productivity. Following an evaluation of modern ERP
systems, Badger Color selected IQMS based on the software’s
comprehensive capabilities and the company’s strong industry experience.

“We appreciated that IQMS sent a team consisting of sales and technical
professionals who all had first-hand knowledge of the type of
manufacturing in which our company is involved,” said Amie Pernitzke,
marketing and business development manager at Badger Color. “They worked
together to help answer our questions and point out areas where the IQMS
system could help without prompting from our team. As a result, we are
confident that IQMS is the best fit for automating our processes and
gaining the visibility to more efficiently ensure the superior
experiences that drive customer loyalty and growth.”

About Badger Color

With plants in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, and Kings Mountain, North Carolina,
Badger Color Concentrates, Inc. is an industry leader in master-batch
and liquid color manufacturing for the plastics industry. Badger Color
strives to take customers’ challenges and turn them into triumphs by
providing the colors they want at a competitive price, giving plastics
molders the ability to showcase and sell their products effortlessly.
Badger Color has been bringing color to life since 1998 with
injection-molded products, blow-molded services, extrusion-grade
products, and most recently liquid color. To learn more, visit http://www.badgercolor.com.

About IQMS

IQMS uniquely combines ERP and MES functionality to give manufacturers a
comprehensive end-to-end suite for running the business, backed by the
real-time performance and scalability that companies demand. Developed
specifically for mid-market repetitive, discrete and batch process
manufacturers, IQMS provides robust capabilities for addressing strict
customer and regulatory certification and compliance. IQMS achieves this
by delivering traditional ERP functionality for accounting, sales
orders, material requirements, inventory, and purchasing, plus extended
native features for CRM, human resources, production scheduling, shop
floor control, warehouse and quality modules. With offices across North
America, Europe, and Asia, IQMS serves manufacturers around the world.
For more information, please visit https://www.iqms.com.

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