A growing number of product vendors sought new data exchange methods to increase efficiency in the supply chain, pushing ARS to upgrade its processes and approaches. "Our vendors were asking us to use EDI for sending our purchase orders," says Wendy Jindra, manager of IS. After surveying the available solutions in the market, ARS chose Commerce Connect by Infor™. It was an obvious decision as the company was already committed to Infor Distribution SX.e for enterprise resource planning.
More than 100 companies—both vendors and customers—were up and running on EDI within four months. Key benefits have emerged as the company’s purchasing department is freed from printing out purchase orders and walking them over to the fax machine. The process saves time, enabling professionals in this group to accomplish more. Greater accuracy was another benefit. By conducting transactions via EDI, the company eliminates the need for manual data entry—eliminating keypunch errors that would have needed to be reconciled and mistaken orders that would have had to be tracked down. However, the company is seeing its most immediate economic benefits in terms of enhancing its invoicing process. “Soon, we’ll be sending most of our customer invoicing through EDI instead of through postal mail and we’ll save postage costs,” says Jindra. She estimates the company will soon be saving as much as $45,000 a year in postal costs.
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