世纪分销系统 - 供应链中的关键环节
公司规模
1,000+
地区
- America
国家
- Canada
- United States
产品
- Visibility Management System (VMS)
- EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI)
技术栈
- EDI
- XML
- Database
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Customer Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据交换与集成
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - 中间件、SDK 和库
适用行业
- 零售
适用功能
- 物流运输
- 采购
用例
- 供应链可见性(SCV)
服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
Century Distribution Systems (Century) 是一家全球物流公司，为丝芙兰、Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores 和 Canadian Tire 等知名全球品牌提供供应链管理服务。Century 通过提供先进的系统和技术解决方案来提高效率并实现对客户供应链的全面可视性，从而在竞争对手中脱颖而出。通过 Century 的可视性管理系统 (VMS)，客户可以轻松管理从供应商发出到配送中心交付的采购订单。VMS 是一款专有应用程序，可用作内部操作系统和供应链管理可视性工具。
挑战
Century Distribution Systems 面临着数据集成和异常处理方面的挑战。该公司使用多个系统来处理客户的 EDI 交易和数据集成映射，这导致在创建和维护自定义接口时时间利用效率低下。每个客户在存储和接收来自客户、供应商和合作伙伴的数据方面都有独特的要求。Century 使用多个应用程序进行 EDI 数据集成，并为每个数据馈送从头到尾构建接口。这大大减慢了客户启动和运行的过程，并被证明是一种资源利用效率低下的情况。另一个挑战是异常处理。采购订单或发票中的错误可能意味着发货延迟，最终损害关系并可能产生巨额费用。
解决方案
为了简化数据集成流程，Century 用 EXTOL International 的 EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI) 工具取代了其原有的 EDI 解决方案，将客户界面创建时间从几周缩短到几天。EBI 提供了一个通用平台，任何数据格式和任何应用程序都可以轻松集成，而无需自定义编码。对于 Century 来说，这意味着无论客户的要求如何，Century 都能够将 EDI、XML、数据库、平面文件和电子表格数据与 VMS 集成，以提供其所著称的增强的供应链可视性。Century 依靠 EBI 接受采购订单并在将数据发送到 VMS 之前对其进行清理和处理。如果数据有问题，EBI 会自动通知发送者，这样 Century 就无需编写特殊流程。
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