“A sporting performance: go-live in 10 months.”

Textilveredlung Keller GmbH from Mössingen, at the foot of the Swabian Jura, is a family-run, modern and forward-looking commission finishing company. It shares with Halo not only the colour yellow but also decades of experience in textile manufacturing.

40 years of experience across three generations distinguish the Keller company. Over the years it became increasingly clear that the Access database solution once developed specifically for Keller was reaching its limits. The decision for a new solution as part of an inteos^® project was made on the condition that the project should take no more than one year and that most of the data should be transferred automatically. This was to relieve the Keller team during the project and keep manual office work to a minimum at go-live. Halo fully met these requirements, which are reminiscent of motorsport.

The close cooperation between Konstantin Keller, Operations Manager of Textilveredlung Keller GmbH, and Bernhard Mähr, project manager at inteos^®, contributed significantly to the success of the project. The mobile and digital networking of the two partners in particular added to the speed, so that only a few on-site meetings were necessary.

FACTBOX

• Digitalization of all processes including certificate management
• Interface and EDI for order, delivery note, invoice and piece data
• Mobile devices for logistics and production processes
• Fabric inspection terminal for precise defect recording and quality assurance
• SEDO interface including laboratory connection
• High performance even with large data volumes
• Flexible analyses and statistics

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How does it work?

The scope of the project covers every point in a commission finisher’s textile chain, from goods receipt, scheduling, fabric preparation, dyeing and finishing to fabric inspection and the laboratory, including quality testing. Only the interfaces were initially excluded for the go-live date. These interfaces, from EDI with customers and SEDO dyehouse control to Intrastat, were implemented during the first quarter of 2024. Everything else was ready in November 2023.

This required the entire data stock to be transferred automatically from the Access system to inteos^®. The inteos^® ERP system generally offers a wide range of interfaces and connections to other systems, an advantage that considerably reduces the administrative effort of manual data entry. In the Keller project, the entire Access database was analysed in close cooperation. The import was tested together repeatedly, and the process was optimized several times up to the final go-live. Even the finest details, such as the setting data for the overfeed of the stenter frames, were taken into account.