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Water Products Company (WPC) leverages Ramen’s Wireless Networking Service to roll out an ERP system in their regional sales offices

WPC provides solutions for new construction and aging infrastructure. To get full value of their new ERP system, they need reliable wireless connectivity over their warehouses and stocking yards so all inventory items can be tracked using wireless scanners, tablets and phones. They found Ramen as their most reliable and cost-effective partner to provide this service.

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Executive Summary

WPC is an industry leader in their targeted product space. They have become leaders by bringing proprietary technology solutions that drive operational efficiencies and enhance the customer experience. They can keep track of incoming and outgoing products with great precision. To execute on this vision, they needed wireless coverage in their warehouses and stocking yards and a desire to get this without building a large in-house IT team led them to Ramen. By partnering with Ramen, they were able to deploy the reliable wireless coverage rapidly and achieve 60% lower costs than an alternative WiFi-only solution.

Challenge

WPC planned to upgrade the IT infrastructure of their existing regional sales offices to support a modern ERP system. Several of their regional offices include large warehouses and outdoor stocking yards. Getting reliable wireless coverage rapidly required a partner who could support them with a wireless solution that could integrate seamlessly with their gateways and switches. Ramen offered them a full palette of wireless technologies in one platform that was structured to enable them to monitor many offices from one dashboard and dive into any specific site to get full visibility.

Solution

For WPC, Ramen provides a combination of LTE (in the CBRS band) and WiFi with the LTE core implemented in the cloud. The Ramen solution scales cost effectively from 5000 sq ft offices to 150,000 sq ft offices covering all WPC’s wireless needs. In place where the legacy Ethernet wiring is not up to par, Ramen deploys mm-wave links to enable reliable backhaul of the wireless APs.

A cloud connection to the Ramen Cloud Management system facilitates remote network monitoring and enables seamless software upgrades. The Ramen deployed wireless network works with the SD-WAN platform they have chosen.

Impact

By partnering with Ramen, the customer is on track to enable the rollout of their new ERP system rapidly to a very large number of remote sites. This accelerated timeline allowed recurring operational savings to begin sooner, while reducing costs by 60%.