EDI/XML Products Case Studies
Consumer Products
Lonely Planet - SAP iDocs Integration
PROBLEM/NEED:
Needed SAP to support EDI orders, order acknowledgements, invoices, and shipment notices to organize the 700 orders waiting to be filled worth over half a million dollars
Distribution
CanWel Distribution - J.D. Edwards OneWorld
PROBLEM/NEED:
The 150,000-200,000 EDI invoices in addition to thousands of purchase orders and acknowledgements were difficult to handle due to the little or no interaction between key processes creating constant manual set up.
Creative Teaching Press - Epicor eBackOffice Suite
PROBLEM/NEED:
Creative Teaching Press recognized that to support the company's growth and diverse client base, it needed a comprehensive enterprise resource planning system that could accommodate the flood of paperwork being generated between the acceptance of orders and the issue of invoices.
Hospital Logistics, Inc. - Tecsys Elite with Oracle database
PROBLEM/NEED:
Historically, the hospitals faxed their purchase orders to the suppliers, who faxed purchase order acknowledgements back and shipped the product. This manual process made it difficult to maintain inventory creating a consistent problem.
Education
University of Southern California (USC) - MICR Check Printing Solutions
PROBLEM/NEED:
The manual handling process of orders with over 12,000 vendors was inadequate for the growth of the institution. Aimed for an electronic transaction system to increase efficiency, reduce human effort, lower costs, and improve turnaround time.
Insurance
Countrywide Insurance - DMV Compliance
PROBLEM/NEED:
Looking for a solution that would provide data exchange between the State of New York Department of Motor Vehicles and insurance providers to communicate their insured data (policies and vehicles) to the DMV electronically and interactively.
St. George Crystal - J.C. Penney, WalMart, Novell Network
PROBLEM/NEED:
To do business with major retailers, St. George Crystal needed to be able to handle transactions automatically via electronic data interchange
Stimson Lumber Company - SupportNet N/Compass Management Software
PROBLEM/NEED:
Transfer documents electronically, computer-to-computer, to eliminating any chance for loss and dramatically improve days sales outstanding with large-order customers as well as expediting the information flow between the trading partners.
XICOR - Oracle, MS Access, EDIFACT, Memec
PROBLEM/NEED:
Their current EDI system allowed Information to arrive at the sales offices electronically but then had to be printed and reentered into the corporate system for transmission to headquarters for processing, inventory and fulfillment. Needed a new EDI System that would operate through a centralized system and would also allow communication with Europe and Asia
Transportation
Continental Airlines - C++, SQL Server
PROBLEM/NEED:
The airlines are critical to the operations of the U.S. Postal Service and needed to find an efficient way to exchange information in order to speed the two-way flow of shipping, manifest and carrier information and correspondingly, the flow of the mail itself.
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