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A commitment to maximising the yield from industrial processes is an essential factor in bringing reliable and competitive products to the market


Palau Alpicat seeks in Sage and Aritmos a technological partner for global and specialised management of the enterprise through a verticalized ERP. A system with which all management areas of the enterprise are coordinated under a single database, so that business information can be organised and controlled in order to optimise the company's resources. Sage X3 Enterprise (verticalized by Aritmos for the ceramics sector) No. of users: 10, extendable in the short term to 15. Functional cover: economic-financial management, sales management (CRM), production management (traceability), purchases and sales management (administrative), quality management, logistics and stocks management.


Palau Alpicat Headquarter

Benefits: Sage X3 Enterprise verticalized and parameterized is the software solution for integral, coordinated and specialised management for Palau Alpicat. The global functional cover of this management tool guarantees the traceability of production, as well as control and follow-up of all the operational processes which influence the production and marketing of their ceramic products.

Profile of Palau Alpicat:

Palau Alpicat is a company offering construction solutions, in constant innovation and specialising in the manufacture of baked clay products. Palau Alpicat, well known in Catalonia, Aragon and the Valencia Community, is part of the Palau group which has a business presence throughout Spain.

With annual production of over 170,000 tonnes of manufactured product (more than 60 million bricks), Palau's activity began in 1875 and has grown consistently until today.

Palau Alpicat now has a professional team of 47 employees and bills around 10 million euro, with percentage growth in 2006 of 35%.

One of the company's strong points is its portfolio of ceramic products in which, among the ranges of facing brick is the Oxired range, the result of R&D investment in Palau Alpicat. A brick with a ceramic surface which guarantees water absorption values for the exposed surface much below those for clinker or earthenware. Processes more and more technical, requiring technological solutions such as Sage X3 Enterprise for their correct management.

Palau Alpicat: a commitment to innovation


Palau Alpicat's strong commitment to information technology and to innovation in all the company's productive processes, in order to gain competitiveness, raised in 2006 the possibility of working with management systems of the latest generation, with solutions capable of optimising the company's human and material resources. Tools which would enable Palau Alpicat to use automation in business processes, improve the capacity of response to customers and speed up the marketing of baked clay products.

Palau Alpicat seeks in Sage and Aritmos the integral support which will allow it to control all the management areas of the enterprise with a single technological system.

A constant supply of information under a potent, reliable platform, adjusted to the needs of the ERP users. The characteristics and functional scope of Sage X3 Enterprise, with its ease of use and control in all areas of management in the company, are the keys to having the information necessary for Palau Alpicat to understand the variables which influence the development of its business. “Understanding the progress and performance of all the industrial operations in a productive process, 24/24, 7/7 and 365/365, are factors that Sage X3 Enterprise verticalized by Aritmos must provide for the company in order to achieve more dynamic and less costly management, with the aim of guaranteeing a competitive end product”.

In a changing and competitive market, the choice of technological management solutions and a commitment to maximising the yield of industrial processes are essential factors in bringing reliable and competitive products to the market. The choice of Sage X3 Enterprise and its registered partner Aritmos is much more than a strategic decision: it is the only way to guarantee that our products are adapted to the needs of our customers, reducing delivery times and guaranteeing the best quality standards.

Joan Trepat
Financial Director

All the management in a single software programme:


Sage X3 Enterprise: economic-financial management, commercial management through a CRM module, logistics, production, purchases, sales… all these business operations as a whole are for Palau Alpicat key factors to be controlled in order to bring the best end product to the market. Stages in which a system like Sage X3 Enterprise gives the right answer for rapid and effective management: orders, customer relations, traceability of production, etc.

“With a portfolio of more than 350 customers, such as Comercial Villalba, Vizcaíno, Catalonia Ceramic, Ferrovial and Dragados, we have to invest in R&D&I to improve all the productive processes in Palau Alpicat with the aim of offering competitive bricks with high quality standards. An investment amounting to more than 2 million euro between 2006 and 2007”. With all the technological tools necessary, we are able to control and offer the company's production on demand, through the optimisation of time, guaranteeing traceability in the production cycle, exhaustive control in management of the Palau Alpicat trials laboratory, also the technical office, etc.

The partner: Aritmos


Aritmos is a certified partner of Sage and has worked with Palau Alpicat since 1994. A specialist in vertical technological solutions, it has adapted the global benefits of Sage X3 Enterprise to the particular needs of the ceramic industry through a powerful vertical. Aritmos is an integral technology provider and after more than 24 years of experience in the development of solutions for more than 2000 clients, now, in combination with Sage, they install ERP management software for all kinds of enterprises.

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The Sage group is a world leader in the development, sale and marketing of business management software for small and medium enterprises and offers them the freedom to achieve success. Sage understands how and why each business is unique. We supply products and services which offer an answer to various needs and are easy to use, secure and efficient. The Sage group was founded in 1981, has been quoted on the London Stock Exchange since 1989 and became part of the FTSE 100 in 1999. Sage has more than 6 million customers and more than 13,500 employees in 24 countries, the United Kingdom and Ireland, continental Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia, Asia and Brazil.

For more information, visit www.sage.es

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Sage X3 is the management solution for medium and large enterprises. With more than 10 years of experience worldwide, it is designed for enterprises with between 50 and 2,000 employees, offering solutions to the specific needs of multiple sectors of activity in manufacture, distribution and services. Sage X3 is an international solution which is used every day by companies in more than 50 countries in the world, adapted to the local legislation and regulations. Its flexibility and adaptability in scale are critical for future success, more than 150,000 users have chosen Sage X3 because it is easy to install, powerful in functionality and very competitive in cost.

For more information go into sageerpx3.sage.es