Highlite, with customers in 67 countries worldwide, provides light and sound equipment for discotheques, theatres and cinemas, and can be regarded as a major player in this business.

The incumbent Navision ERP- system was considered to offer insufficient functionality to adequately manage their stock in a warehouse holding 18,000 pallets.

Prior to Slim4, decisions were based on human intuition, but this had resulted in a high incidence of obsolete stock. Because many items were being sourced from the Far East, it was thought that a better forecasting system would result in better control and a significant reduction in stock.