Matrix Service Company finds Success with Encompix Engineer-to-Order ERP

Matrix Service Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma, designs, constructs, maintains, and provides specialized repair services and products for aboveground storage tanks principally for petroleum refineries, bulk storage terminals, pipelines, and chemical plants. The Company also provides general industrial construction and in-plant routine maintenance, process unit turnarounds, and construction services.

After a four and a half month implementation, Matrix Service went live December 1, 2003, with 20 users and 75 shop employees. According to Vicki Reese, Business Unit Controller, Matrix is already starting to see benefits. "We are now more proactive with production issues and can determine when and why a job is straying off time or money parameters. We have the ability to compare 'planned' versus 'actual' at any time during the project as well as tracking historical costing for future estimating.

"The utilization of shop floor data collection has eliminated the duplicate data entry for timecards, previously manually completed by the employee. We now have the ability to track real time on a project and to more efficiently manage our employees and projects.

"The BOM is imported directly from Engineering, eliminating the manual review of drawings before preparing the purchase order. This information then flows throughout the system to receiving and accounts payable, eliminating previous double entry."

Encompix has filled the manufacturing software requirements of Engineer-to-Order companies since 1992. The company name reflects our commitment to developing business application solutions that encompass the complex areas of project-based and job-based manufacturing. Encompix provides ETO manufacturers with a competitive advantage by improving bottom line results.