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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

E. Sam Jones Distributor Improves Supply Chain With Infor

With more than 60 years of experience creating customized lighting solutions, E. Sam Jones is a family-owned and operated business in Atlanta, GA with branches in Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Jersey, and Florida.

Since the business began in 1948, E. Sam Jones has developed partnerships with major lighting manufacturers across the United States, including General Electric and Phillips, but also sells to residential customers.

E. Sam Jones sought to optimize its supply chain and improve process efficiencies to deliver a more integrated platform to its customers via an upgrade.

Business goals for the Infor implementation included:
■ Reduce software customizations with Infor Distribution SX.e’s built-in upgrades.
■ Optimize inventory management of 30,000 items.
■ Streamline the supply chain to maintain delivery time expectations

By utilizing Infor Distribution SX.e, E. Sam Jones is now able to manage orders from invoice through production and delivery. With the ability to control pricing of its 30,000 inventory items for recurring and first-time customers, the company can process orders at the closest distribution center to its customers. This ensures that specific orders can be efficiently ordered, processed, and shipped to anywhere in the US within the same day from E. Sam Jones’s seven distribution centers.

E. Sam Jones Distributor eliminated all of it software customizations, improved supply chain management, and improved asset visibility to deliver superior online service to customers and increase venue with Infor Distribution SX.e and Infor Distribution Storefront.

To learn more about Infor and the E. Sam Jones Distributor case study, visit the Infor Distribution Newsroom.

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