BIKE FUN International

BIKE FUN International is a manufacturer of top-end bicycles under several brands which are exported to many European countries.

BIKE FUN International (BFI) was launched in 2001 by a group of Dutch investors. The current production capacity is around 200,000 bicycles per year. It deals in the production of all types of bikes – mountain, trekking, cross, road and children’s bikes as well as the increasingly popular electric bikes. The product range also includes advanced carbon and full-suspension bikes.

Industry: Mechanical engineering
Type of production: Custom development, production and assembly, piece and series production
Employees: 600
Web: bikefunint.com

Solution

Infor SyteLine ERP
APS planning
InduStream – terminal-based data acquisition
Workflow
AdviExpert project for the improvement of planning and management of material procurement and process change

Needs and Starting Points

Reducing the complexity of, and the need for, operational management of data processing in the ERP system
Standardisation and measurement in the planning process
Improving the quality of material supply
Reducing the number of changes to sales orders

Benefits of ERP Implementation

The verification of the availability of materials for production takes place over all orders entered in the system in the form of exception analysis and system-generated orders
Usingthe APS functionality, the system ensures minimum inventory levels and on-time delivery of all components and own user’s production (JIT)
The use of the information system tools has increased the speed of response to issues
Improving the quality of supply

Further information

At BIKE FUN International, we also implemented the AdviExpert project to improve the planning and management of material procurement and process change, with the following benefits:

Less labour intensity and operative time in data processing
Better performance of key processes – purchasing, logistics
Increased reliability in vendor material supply
Reduction of the number of changes
Increase in labour productivity by eliminating waste in non-production processes
Timely response to issues using APS planning

Lubomír Škapa, Logistics Manager with BIKE FUN International, about the Infor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine) ERP:

“The interconnection of the separate systems into a single whole went very fast and since its inception, foremen no longer have to manually check out production after the end of the shift – this is done automatically after the weighing system is reconciled. This has significantly reduced the failure rate in production, while also streamlining and speeding up the checking out. The online data collected in production is used by foremen to further increase the throughput of the production line and consequently boost the efficiency of final production.”