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"Leo Laboratories is a pharmaceutical company based
in Ireland since 1958. We manufacture finished products which are
sold worldwide. We have been live with BPCS, our business critical
system, for 5 years. This covers finance, manufacturing, distribution
and also some third party products. We are currently running v.
4.04 of BPCS. Euro readiness was an issue for Leo Labs because we
deal with customers and suppliers all around Europe. We were requested
by a number of these customers and suppliers to begin dealing with
them in Euros in January 1999. We chose EM4 for our Euro solution
mainly because of the business we were in and the business relationship
that we have developed with Millennium Solutions. We had implemented
MS4 very successfully in 1997 across the whole group. We were confident
in Millennium's technical abilities and business expertise. The
key criteria in selecting a Euro solution was that it was able to
deal firstly with triangulation during the transition period and
secondly, that it be able to convert to a Euro company using a conversion
tool. EM4 allowed us prepare for this goal. EM4 is not a major task
to implement and I would recommend it to AS/400 IT managers who
have not yet looked at the Euro problem. Gerard Ryan Leo Laboratories
Ireland
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