# MPI Corporation

> Metal former MPI Corporation extended its Plex ERP with receiving, MES, scheduling and pricing apps built on Fuuz alongside the ERP, avoiding customizations.

Source: https://www.fuuz.com/customers/mpi

Customer story · Metal forming


MPI Corporation, a holding company for metal-forming businesses, extended its Plex ERP investment with applications built on Fuuz, starting with receiving, instead of customizing the ERP.

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The challenge

## Where They Started

- An ERP upgrade that would have required many customizations
- Receiving that did not work the way the business needed
- A goal of extending Plex without local installs, thin clients or bolt-ons
At a glance

**Company** MPI Corporation

**Industry** Metal forming

**Results** Extended the Plex investment instead of customizing it.

The story

## How It Came Together

MPI runs Plex as its ERP. When an upgrade would have meant carrying many customizations forward, MPI chose to keep Plex standard and build what it needed alongside it on Fuuz.

Receiving came first: an application that works the way MPI actually receives material, connected to Plex. MES, production scheduling, pricing algorithms and financial processes followed on the same platform, so each new application reuses the same data and integrations instead of adding another customization to the ERP.

What they built on Fuuz

## The Solution

### Receiving

A receiving application built on Fuuz alongside Plex, working the way MPI receives.

### MES

Fuuz MES integrated with Plex.

### Scheduling

Production scheduling on the platform.

### Financials and pricing

Pricing algorithms and financial processes built on Fuuz.

Results

## What Changed

Extended the Plex investment instead of customizing it.

Receiving and other applications built alongside the ERP.

Applications built faster than with their previous development tools.

One platform from the shop floor to pricing.

> “If we'd had Fuuz initially, we would have built our solution in Fuuz.”

Mark McDonald, EVP of IT, MPI Corporation

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