Pilot Pen shifts Mideast supply chain to Dubai

The announcement comes after the company has successfully optimised its supply chain process through the implementation of an enterprise resource planning system from Microsoft that allows it to shift its trading in the Middle East from Japan to Dubai.

Pilot Pen has implemented Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains for enterprise resource planning and supply chain management. The Great Plains ERP solution deployed by Emitac, partner of Microsoft, includes modules to manage financial systems and HR functions along with the supply chain management features to manage inventory control, invoicing, sales order processing, and bill of materials.

The system will help Pilot to manage distribution of the Pilot brand of writing implements across thirteen countries in the Middle East.

Dilip Thaker, managing director, Pilot Pen, said: “We have improved the efficiency of our operations in the Middle East by having our partners in the region purchase directly from us. Great Plains ERP has provided us with a dependable and easy to use solution to really understand and manage the supply chain process, and integrate it with our financial and business functions.”