Founded in 1941, Winchester Electronics is a privately held electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Middlebury, Connecticut. The company is a leading global provider of interconnect solutions and is recognized around the world for connecting innovation to application. Winchester Electronics designs, manufactures, and deploys a wide variety of connectors, cable assemblies, wire harnesses, and custom interconnect solutions for markets that require the highest-quality interconnect solutions for most mission-critical applications.
“With Infor CloudSuite Industrial, we can access business applications anytime, anywhere. They are highly available. We have never suffered any loss of service with the cloud.”
– Eric Frost, Business Unit Controller and Materials Manager, Winchester Electronics
The Requirements
- Reduce total cost of ownership and preserve capital for business expenditures instead of for IT spending
- Maintain high data-security standards
- Integrate disparate ERP systems for consistency and standardization
- Focus on core competencies and redeploy IT staff to other value-adding activities
- Keep IT systems up-to-date to ensure business operations run efficiently at all times
The Results
- Freed up capital by eliminating IT infrastructure expenses for maintaining on-premise solutions
- Reduced risks associated with data security by taking advantage of the well-accredited security infrastructure offered by Infor’s partnership with AWS
- Improved productivity and enhanced employee collaboration across business units by standardizing processes and reports
- Redeployed IT personnel to focus on more strategic activities by reducing the need to maintain highly customized, complex, on-premise IT environments
- Enhanced the organization’s overall operating efficiency by eliminating system downtime and ensuring employees have access to the latest technology through regular system updates
“Data security has never been a concern, mainly because Infor’s cloud infrastructure partner, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has better resources to maintain high security standards than we could ever have.”
– Eric Frost, Winchester Electronics