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BIZMANAGER™



APPAREL MANUFACTURER

PROJECT NAME

BizManager™ Mapper training

CLIENT PROFILE

A major producer and marketer of sports apparel. A privately owned company with around $225M in annual revenue. It is a well known brand and uses other apparel brands to manufacture and supply.

  • Industry: Branded Apparel Products
  • Location: Corporate Headquarters at Lenexa, KS
  • Products: Apparel
  • Technical Environment: Unix based system / BizManager™ for EDI solution

SITUATION

  • Company implemented BizManager™ a few years back and is currently struggling to provide some basic acknowledgment and reporting functionality. In addition, they have a project backlog.
  • Company is looking for help to oversee some new transactions to be implemented, however, they must be comfortable with a person who can understand the business requirements as well as implement new requirements the proper/right way to maximize the utilization of software and ROI.
  • Client is under pressure to implement a number of requirements due to the constantly changing market situation. Client has engaged a consultant and the EDI team is happy with the consultant, who seems to be good technically, but is unable to provide business solutions and knowledge transfer.

SOLUTION / DELIVERABLES

  • Provided a BizManager consultant to oversee mapping, develop standards, and help employees to implement transactions.
  • Provide technical help for basic acknowledgment consolidation setup and reporting functionality of BizManager.
  • Provide technical and business expertise to point and choose a correct alternative integration solution to Oracle apps.
  • Provide help to establish standards and procedures.
  • A good, experienced person needed to work with employees to provide the right direction to projects while understanding business requirements and processes.

OUTCOME

  • Overview of EDI including the importance and integration to ERP system covered.
  • BizManager Mapper training has been provided to cover 850 inbound transactions using Oracle database at client's last moment request. Also, an outbound 810 was covered.
  • A day was spent to setup a new business document definition and map for NEXCOM using a newer set of tables. This has been a big learning curve and opportunity for the employees involved in training.
  • Covered basic reporting functionality and demonstrated different ways to get information about technical and business related issues.

ACCOLADES

Client has expressed a strong interest to further engage the consultant and looking for further help.