Midwest Manufacturer, Recycler and Re-Manufacturer of Imaging Supplies

Pain
This Company was using a product called Dynamics NAV as their ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system.  They were also using a 3rd party product inside of Dynamics NAV to communicate EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) with their trading partners. It was hard for them to support and not very easy to bring on new partners.  It also imbedded in their EDI system and caused a lot of performance issues.  EDI documents came in, and it would cause slow-downs in their system.

Vision
MPS Partners’ vision was to bring in a Microsoft BizTalk server to be a separate part of the architecture that did verifications before information ever got to their Dynamics system.  This allowed them to more easily onboard new trading partners and use a more modern AS2 (communication protocol used for EDI).

Value
This was a cost-saving tool in that, by replacing their old system, there were less support costs.  From a business stand point, there was far greater speed to the user and it alleviated the performance issues people were having.

Solution
MPS Partners used their existing supply chain accelerator solutions to help them quickly build this platform using practices learned through other projects.  It allowed MPS Partners to put the platform in in half the time another firm could. The pilot was done and activated with one of The Company’s large trading partners in about eight weeks and the solution was transitioned into with their internal team.

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