Global Beauty Care

The GBC team needed a modern financial system that would allow them to continue the rapid growth while also allowing them to market products more effectively, says Mizrahi.

He knew they needed a technology platform that had a strong and growing ecosystem of innovative solutions, continually evolving technology and a robust support system that would enable their growth as they expanded operations. GBC also needed end-to-end control and visibility to all aspects of their supply chain, strong inventory and order management capabilities, integrated EDI, and landed cost/container management solutions that were fully integrated into an ERP.

Mizrahi researched ERP software, settling on Oracle NetSuite or Acumatica. “Oracle NetSuite was astronomical in price and I was afraid of the number of customizations required,” he says. “Because I know Visual Basic and Excel, I wanted a program that would get me nine-tenths of the way to where I needed, and I saw that functionality with Acumatica.”

He liked that Acumatica is developer friendly and that he could handle some of the implementation himself while working alongside Acumatica partner MIBAR, also based in New York City. He also liked that Acumatica had a growing ecosystem, partnering with several companies who have developed modules that work with the ERP, and the fact that Acumatica routinely updates its software.

Under guidance from MIBAR, Global Beauty Care implemented Acumatica’s Distribution and Financial systems, combined with SPS Commerce and PC Bennett’s container management solution.

Connected Business with Real-Time Visibility

With Acumatica, Global Beauty Care executives gained an instant view of the company’s status in real time.

“In the old system there was no clear picture of how many open orders there were and there was no clear process after you invoiced. Now, in one quick second, I can see anything,” says Mizrahi.

Mizrahi easily created several dashboards with inquiries that let him see how much money is due, how many orders have come in and so forth. The dashboards allow him to pinpoint any issues right away, all of this is insight he didn’t have previously. “Just yesterday I was looking at a dashboard and recognized that something was wrong. I called the warehouse, and asked, ‘Are you backed up?’ and they were. The number jumped a few minutes later and I didn’t have to run a report or anything because I built a dashboard.”

Acumatica has eliminated manual entries with automation, which has sped financial processing. It has also provided easier access to data.

When Mizrahi found it difficult to create a highly customized replenishment report that tried to link to too many tables, one of the programmers at MIBAR suggested he tap the O-data technology and leverage Excel to create the report.

He wrote a generic inquiry in Acumatica and then wrote the code to put the information into Excel to compile the data he needed. “There’s no way to do that with any other system I have seen,” he says. “The robustness of the program to spit everything out into an O data feed is tremendous.”

Acumatica seamlessly connects to Global Beauty Care’s online store SPS Commerce and Ship Station, which allow the company to process orders without manually transferring data and ship items efficiently and quickly, increasing customer service.

Revolutionized Payment Process

A single Global Beauty Care employee now processes orders from its largest customer in about 8 minutes, saving more than 9 man-hours of time previously spent manually entering orders. Acumatica’s automatic controls have erased the potential for invoicing mistakes.

Tracking Shipping Containers

To keep track of GBC’s goods coming in from all over the world, Mizrahi uses Acumatica Partner PC Bennett’s container management solution, which replaced the complicated, paper-filled bulletin board. “It was really crazy,” he says. “We really needed a better solution.”

Mizrahi created a way to receive inventory onto a temporary warehouse called “the ocean”, which does a receiving of the goods to keep track of what’s coming. On “the ocean” there are multiple container orders. When a single container is received, it gets billed automatically, eliminating the need for manual calculations and for a person to remember what has been billed.

The process has “revolutionized the way we make payments to factories,” he says.

Unlimited Users without High Costs

As Global Beauty Care continues to grow, Acumatica will help keep operating costs low. “Being able to roll out to new employees without the added expenses of users is a tremendous benefit,” Mizrahi says. “Almost every other ERP software charges monthly per user, which inevitably has executives trying to limit how many people really need simultaneous access. Acumatica’s novel way of charging based on transactions is well-suited for future growth.”

More Productive, More Sales with Acumatica

Mizrahi likes that GBC can add users based on Acumatica’s consumption model and not have to limit the company’s growth. He says he’s much more productive thanks to Acumatica and its ease of use.

“I’m spending less time fielding IT questions and handling issues and more time on sales,” he says. “I am spending a lot less time helping people with data entry because the business is now automated, and that’s a huge component of our growth.”