SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS HELP DEMA MANUFACTURING SIMPLIFY
DEMA Engineering of St. Louis, which produces fluid dispenser systems for a variety of industries, needed to find efficiencies throughout their company. Company leaders wanted to merge all their company-wide processes into one software system. Their goal was to have one computer system control all aspects of the business: sales, purchasing, manufacturing, and shipping.
With assistance from Missouri One Start, the company partnered with cloud ERP software corporation Epicor to begin the process. Epicor sent their training force to the DEMA Engineering facility to upskill a select group of employees as subject matter experts (SMEs). After becoming skilled in the process, the DEMA SMEs would then educate others on the new productivity-enhancing software.
DEMA Engineering has completed the first phase of training and their subject matter experts are now teaching the rest of the workforce. As more and more employees learn the new system, the company will be able to better track sales, purchasing, manufacturing, and shipping, thus increasing efficiency overall.
About Missouri One Start:
Missouri One Start is a Division within the Department of Economic Development. Training programs are administered regionally by local education agencies (LEAs). In addition to meeting certain eligibility criteria, companies must be making a capital investment five times greater than the amount of training funds they receive.
