OPTIMAL ELECTRONIC DATA EXCHANGE IN THE ELECTRICAL WHOLESALE TRADE

EDI in a company network of electronics wholesalers

Establishing central IT services and creating a modern communication concept for Europe-wide business processes

ONBOARDING PORTAL

The new Supplier Onboarding Portal allows to connect new business partners faster and facilitates the communication among all of them.

DIGITALISATION

Purchase and sales processes have been digitalised.

MASTER DATA DISTRIBUTION

A virtual warehouse was established to ensure the availability of supplies.

TRANSPARENCY AND ADDED VALUE

A supply chain visibility monitoring system to achieve more transparency and more than 200 business processes across all involved process systems and process concepts have been fully integrated.

The project at a glance

Challenge

The lack of transparency in communication repeatedly lead to gaps in the knowledge sharing between active stakeholders. Therefore, a uniform communications structure between customers and business partners had to be established. Among other things, the system should also contain information on delivery data and guarantee more transparency in all business processes. One key challenge to overcome was the lack of visibility of product availabilities.

Our solution

One key objective, in parallel to establishing centralised IT services, was to establish a modern, EDI-based communications concept for EU-wide business processes, allowing members to access the data of a common database anywhere in Europe. compacer was tasked with developing, implementing and operating a fully integrated B2B business platform for the network of companies. In addition to the EDI component with its integrated supplier onboarding portal, the solution was to include an e-Invoicing platform. The e-Invoicing platform was to provide e-Billing, signed PDF, e-mail distribution and ZUGFeRD capabilities.

Volumes converted per year

250000

online-orders

2250

registered participants
in the B2B network.

12200000

volumes converted per year

terabyte article data exchange

380000

accesses in internal
goods traffic

7000000

processed
business documents

Our customer

is a market community in the electrical wholesale trade and a network of companies that operates in 26 countries. In the meantime, more than 230 independently cooperating electrical wholesalers belong to the network. Almost every member is an independent family business. The aim is to strengthen the wholesalers and make them fit for future. That is why the network also focuses on a good cooperation with all manufacturers. This was a prime reason to set up and expand a centralised e-commerce platform.