Prym Sews Up Supply-Chain Processes With iWay
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- iWay Data Integration Suite
- Trading Partner Manager
- SAP adapter
- EDI adapter
Tech Stack
- SAP
- EDI
- iWay
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries
Applicable Industries
- Consumer Goods
- Retail
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
- Procurement
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
- Supply Chain Visibility
Services
- Data Science Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Prym Consumer USA is one of the largest manufacturers and distributor of sewing, quilting, and craft-related products in North America. The company distributes a broad range of products for home decorating, crafting, and many types of do-it-yourself endeavors. With popular brands, such as Babyville, Collins, Dritz, and Dylon, Prym distributes a broad range of products for home decorating, crafting, and many types of do-it-yourself endeavors. Prym’s brand promise is to “make life a little easier, a little more convenient, and a lot nicer for millions of people.” It’s a directive that the IT department takes to heart. Prym’s technology professionals have created systems and procedures that make it easier for Michaels, Wal-Mart, Jo-Ann Stores, Amazon, and countless other retailers and distributors to place orders and receive goods via automated, system-to-system interfaces.
The Challenge
Prym Consumer USA, one of the largest manufacturers and distributor of sewing, quilting, and craft-related products in North America, needed to interface with SAP to manage thousands of daily EDI transactions from Wal-Mart, Amazon, Michaels, and Jo-Ann Stores. The company had to replace an end-of-life electronic data interchange (EDI) system that links the company’s ERP system with its automated distribution systems. The SAP/EDI links had to be seamless as Prym's large trading partners insisted on EDI communications. Prym uses 14 different EDI message types to interact with more than a dozen trading partners. The company also needed to streamline the cycle of sending invoices and automated shipment notices.
The Solution
Prym Consumer USA used iWay as a middleware backbone to process orders, receive POs, route invoices, route advance shipment notices, and confirm shipments, with automated links to SAP and other essential information systems. The IT team used iWay Service Manager to develop a series of EDI interfaces. iWay interfaces work around the clock to process an average of 5,000 SAP documents per day. iWay gathers the order information and transforms SAP iDocs into a format that the picking system understands so that Prym can process the orders for particular stores. Once the goods are shipped, iWay sends an invoice and advance shipment notice via EDI. In addition, Prym’s purchasing department uses iWay to monitor shipments from its overseas suppliers in China, Malaysia, and the Pacific Rim. iWay tracks each shipment, from origin to destination. Whether the goods are sitting on a dock, being loaded into a container, crossing the Pacific, or traveling by land to Prym’s warehouses, iWay receives and processes this information and loads it into a relational database, which the purchasing and operations departments can query for up-to-the-minute status updates.
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