Gorilla Genomics, Inc

Gorilla Genomics, Inc. provides molecular reagents to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries in their quest to understand gene expression. Gorilla Genomics requires careful planning and tracking of raw material inventories and shop operations. There are multiple operations, routes, and
combinations of routes in the production of these reagents. Thus, we were interested in purchasing a tool that would allow management to forecast our material consumption and purchasing requirements. In addition, we required a tool that would help the shop operators know what operations needed execution on a specific day/week given our rapidly changing environment.

Upon searching the vast number of products available in the marketplace today, we realized that most were targeted for large ega-corporations and hence were too expensive to purchase and implement, complicated, and a serious overkill for our small organization. Resource Manager provided us with a reasonably priced tool that was closer to the needs of a company our
size and provided a familiar MS Excel interface. Due to it's powerful, yet simple design, implementation and training expenses could be minimized.

The recent transition of Resource Manager from an MS Excel to a more robust MS Access-based product continues to provide us with additional benefits. Among them, the ability to integrate RM-A with the rest of our SQL-based infrastructure, and eventually with an ERP system. Once RM-A is fully implemented, we will be able to model our production processes, proactively plan production runs and modify the plan in real time, manage our material purchases, provide the shop operators with clear instructions on a day to
day basis, and finally, track actual progress against the original plan.

Gorilla Genomics, Inc
Ray Sanchez-Pescador, phd, pmp
VP Manufacturing