Manufacturers of Consumer Packaged Goods have been innovators in business integration, recognizing the positive impact that process automation exerts on time-to-market, demand-driven replenishment and supply chain efficiency.
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"We quickly discovered how amazingly versatile EXTOL is. We use it for all integration projects. " |
But CPG manufacturers face daunting integration challenges: Large numbers of trading partners with a wide range of electronic document types and interfaces, significant partner interface volatility, and offshore partners with limited IT and integration capabilities.
EXTOL's Design-time Automation™ technology equips CPG companies to achieve high levels of process automation and efficiency, even in the face of unexpected changes:
- Implement demand-driven replenishment – Integrate VMI, JIT replenishment, and other demand-driven processes, by triggering replenishment from demand signals. EXTOL lets you integrate sales operations, supply management, and other applications non-invasively and in near-real time.
- Integrate with trading partners on their terms – Connect with retailers, offshore manufacturers, and other trading partners using their preferred protocols and document types. Become easier to do business with by delivering custom connections to your enterprise applications, with less time and effort than alternatives.
- Onboard new customers and suppliers faster – Engage sooner with new trading partners by delivering integration results faster. EXTOL’s Design-time Automation™ technology reduces the cost of customer integration and maintenance, by eliminating many time-consuming, low-level implementation concerns.
- Comply more easily with key partner requirements – Implement Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, and other B2B processes, including Ship Destination Quantity (SDQ) and other specialized transactions. EXTOL’s Enterprise Adapters, Smart Mapping, and Integration Pattern Repository equip you to comply with unique partner interface requirements.
- Onboard less technically sophisticated offshore partners – Automate integration with offshore partners that are not EDI-capable, by exchanging spreadsheets, flat files, and other desktop office suite-compatible documents. EXTOL’s metadata and mapping Accelerators make non-standard data interchange faster and easier.
- Integrate directly with internal applications – EXTOL integration technology supports multiple methods for integrating with your data and applications, including both commercial and in-house developed software, on-premise or in the cloud, with one set of tools.
- Expose data to trading partners, securely and on-demand – Create web services that expose order status, shipment status, inventory availability, and other information, on-demand. EXTOL’s web service Accelerators take care of low-level implementation details, so you can focus on getting the right data to your partners.
- Synchronize your product catalog data – Synchronize catalog data with retailers using EDI, Global Data Synchronization, flat files, or third party catalog applications. EXTOL offers multiple ways to extract and automate delivery of the product data your partners need, when they need it.
- Do more with less – Meet all of your business integration needs with one investment in tools and skills. EXTOL integration technology is designed for flexibility, so you can solve unforeseen integration problems without new infrastructure or retooling.
Consumer Packaged Goods companies with rapidly changing business conditions turn to EXTOL to solve their toughest integration challenges:
Citizen's EDI systems run like clockwork thanks to EXTOL EDI Integrator for i's ease of use and efficiency. Click here to read more.
Dorcy International uses EXTOL products to manage their global supply chain. Click here to read about their success with EXTOL.
Click here to read about how John Wiley & Sons uses EXTOL's Managed Services to reduce the strain on its EDI staff.
To read about how Sleep Innovations uses EXTOL EDI Integrator to connect its OEM plants and retail trading partners, click here.
Click here to read why Woodstream chose EXTOL Business Integrator over the competition.
Case Briefs
Garden Supply Manufacturer - Read how this company used EXTOL Data Synchronizer to meet a customer's Data Synchronization mandate deadline.
Manufacturer of Bathroom and Bathware Products - This manufacturer used EXTOL Business Integrator to improve the way orders and shipments were reconciled.
Manufacturer and Distributor of Flashlights and Lanterns - EXTOL Secure Exchange and EXTOL Portal were able to cut this company's VAN costs by about 60%.
Sporting Goods Manufacturer and Distributor - Read about the benefits this company is experiencing in moving from a legacy EDI system to EXTOL EDI Integrator for i.
