The Company
Imperial Dade is a large independent distributor of food service disposables and janitorial supplies headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. Originally founded in 1935, Imperial Dade was purchased by CEO Robert Tillis in 2007. Since its purchase, Imperial Dade has made a series of acquisitions including Borda Products, Center Moriches Paper, Burke Supply, Wasserman Bag, Brawner Paper, JAD Building Maintenance Supplies, Royal Net, and Goldman Paper Company. These acquisitions have helped Imperial Dade become a fast-growing leader in its market. To accommodate its continued growth, Imperial Dade has 125 distribution centers throughout the United States and Canada.
Since 2007, Imperial Dade has acquired 61 companies. The initial acquisitions left Imperial Dade with multiple software systems and no central view or control point. The company required an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that could give it a comprehensive view of its operations that was also affordable and scalable.
The Solution
Imperial began its due diligence in March of 2012. The decision to utilize VAI’s S2K Enterprise was made in May of 2012 with the assistance of outside consulting. Imperial evaluated several options and ultimately selected VAI for several reasons including:
The Result
The deployment of VAI S2K Enterprise has enabled Imperial to consolidate several systems onto a single, real-time platform. The flexibility and adaptability of S2K ERP has provided the base necessary for continued organic and acquisition growth of the company.
Imperial Dade deployed VAI S2K Enterprise to accommodate the fusion of multiple acquisitions under one Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) package. Imperial Dade leveraged VAI’s unlimited user licensing to add hundreds of new users obtained during recent acquisitions. Nucleus found that S2K ERP enabled the company to migrate multiple software applications into one integrated ERP solution, providing a view of the entire business and providing real-time visibility throughout the organization.
The costs for the project consisted of consulting fees, initial hardware expenses, ongoing hardware maintenance, annual software license maintenance, and personnel time to implement and support the application. Imperial Dade also incurred costs for training its employees through both trainers’ fees and employee time.
ROI: 100% Payback: 1.1 years Average annual benefit: $1,194,353
Since the launch, Imperial Dade has been using VAI’s ERP software to:
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