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our company
invented the hair clipper we've been
making new innovations to our products
for over 100 years now we've seen
the product and the industry mature
we've seen
our customers have full careers with our
product in hand
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well clipper is unique because we're a
family run business i'm the fourth
generation of my family
making hair clippers and i think it
gives us a big advantage over our
competitors
we focus heavily on our people we
believe that if you take care of
our employees they'll take care of our
customers we have over 3000
associates and a partner network that
distributes
our product in virtually every country
worldwide
our challenges on a day-to-day basis are
managing the complexity of a global
supply chain
we have many different systems and our
customers expect us to deliver quickly
and our ability to manage that
complexity is a definite challenge for
us
we are coming off of an era of having
different on-prem
erp systems at all of our locations and
our data
wasn't rationalized it didn't mean the
same thing in each country or any grp
system
so we're coming together onto one
platform one system
one ability to execute better with all
of our global resources
instead of having to operate separately
with individual resources
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the reason we're migrating over to
dynamics 365
is because the system we've been using
the last 30 years
we've outgrown it uh it can't keep up
with the changing business needs that we
have
and it wasn't working and ultimately
that's
why we looked at dynamics 365. we know
that it's going to keep up with the
times and that way
you know even though we might use this
for another 30 years it won't be the
same system we buy today
we've known for a long time that we've
needed to
go through this digital transformation i
actually got a chance to
sit down with satya nadella at microsoft
and he was describing for me
you know his vision for the technology
he wanted the whole world to utilize
technology to empower people
and i realized well that's what i want
for wall
we see the adoption of cloud as
important to our ability to grow this
business
we will also see it as an accelerator
to be able to access newer technologies
newer services much more quickly
it saves us the time the management
effort
the work of bringing everything on-site
of mastering it ourselves of installing
it ourselves
of allocating the resources the
technologies the servers and the network
connections ourselves this allows us to
get onto the business value much more
quickly
we can already see that dynamics 365
along with
office is allowing us to process
information move information to people
much more quickly in a way that they can
understand absorb and make decisions on
almost immediately so we really
appreciate the integration
of those products along with the balance
of microsoft's vision
around the modern workplace of having
other tools available to us like power
bi and
power apps and we can bring solutions to
the business now in
hours that used to take us days or weeks
previously
what excites me the most about the
future is using technology
in the right way we can glean insight
and get
awareness of market shifts and market
behavior and customer behavior
much more quickly than we ever could in
the past we will be able to
respond more quickly we can anticipate
the customers needs better
and we can provide and continue for the
next 100 years
to be the leader in providing products
and services that the market needs
and take care of our customers so no one
else has to