Over 7,800 customers in 52 countries and more than 15 industries use our solutions. Read below to learn more about how organizations have used SEEBURGER solutions to help them gain competitive advantage in the industry.
Wyeth
Forrester Case Study: How Wyeth Upgraded Its B2B Operations To Support A Global ERP Strategy
Written by: Ken Vollmer with Alex Cullen and Matt Czarnecki, Forrester
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals recently completed a major upgrade to its business-to-business (B2B) capability that supports a global rollout of a single-instance SAP implementation. The upgrade resulted in a more agile B2B operation, labor savings in excess of 60% per year, and reduced software licensing costs in the range of 20% per year. Enterprise architects should use Wyeth’s experience as an example of the types of savings that B2B modernization efforts can provide.
Audi
"AUDI HUNGARIA is modernising its structures with state of the art processes and infrastructure."
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Barber Foods
For frozen chicken products purveyor Barber Foods, migrating to SAP R/3 put several related projects on the IT team’s plate. For one thing, the company’s legacy AS/400-based EDI system needed to be replaced with an SAP-friendly Windows platform. For another, several core enterprise applications had to be integrated with SAP on an aggressive schedule. SEEBURGER’s Business Integration Server (BIS) dished up a single solution that met both needs and has gradually taken over additional functions ranging from transmitting customer invoices to facilitating electronic funds transfers. More than 13,000 transactions now flow through the BIS gateway every day, eliminating custom integration work and helping keep supermarket freezers stocked with staples like Barber Foods Chicken Kiev, All-American Fingers and Stuffed Chicken Nuggets.
Beijing Benz-DaimlerChrysler Automotive Corporation, Ltd.
In 2006, BeijingBenz-DaimlerChrysler Automotive Ltd. (BBDC) opened an all-new state-of-the-art factory in Beijing to build Mercedes Benz E- and C-Class sedans as well as Chrysler’s best-selling big-grilled 300C sport/luxurymobile. Despite the limited experience of Chinese manufacturing personnel with ERP or EDI systems, BBDC decided to automate all back-end processes at the new plant to implement Just-in-Sequence production. This was accomplished by deploying SAP for Automotive, SEEBURGER’s B2B Gateway to automate communications with larger suppliers, and SEEBURGER’s WebEDI partner portal with integrated third-party logistics provider (3PL) messaging and AIAG B10 compliant barcoding for smaller partners.
BSH Home Appliances
"We decided to use SEEBURGER since we found it to be the most flexible solution to keep up with our customers' needs: any to any mapping, map programming, various transmission options (VAN, FTP, and AS2), and SAP connectivity has met our expectations. Today we have a system in which we are able provide traditional-EDI to those customers who have it and extend it to process sales orders for those who don't. Ultimately SEEBURGER allows us to provide our customers with the best possible service while reducing our overall cost and leverage against our investment. SEEBURGER's commitment to BSH was extremely important to the success of our EDI implementation. They continue to provide us the highest level of support beyond anything I have seen within the 4 years I have been involved in IT projects."
-Eric Gamboa, Sr. Systems Specialist, BSH Home Appliance Corporation
C H Sugar
"We're happy with the company, happy with the support we've gotten and happy with SEEBURGER's technology," said Gary Walden, CIO of C H Sugar. SEEBURGER was selected to handle EDI communications with customers and did so without downtime.
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Corporate Express
As one of the world's leading business-to-business suppliers of office and computer products and services, Corporate Express was looking to enhance their e-procurement department while helping their customers to reduce costs.
Dunlop
Despite the rise in modern e-business technologies, the fax remains a popular medium in sales departments and call centers. Tire manufacturer Dunlop is getting round this by automatically processing incoming fax orders in SAP R/3 using a solution based on the SEEBURGER Business Integration Server.
Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama (HMMA)
"EDI is imperative for our just-in-time operations as well as for just-in-sequence backup in case one of our live data feeds goes down, but we don’t dictate which software the supplier has to use. It’s entirely their decision,” said J.T. Hu, Application Development Manager, Hyundai Information Service North America. “On the other hand, we knew we couldn’t expect our South Korean suppliers to invest in a conventional EDI system out of the gate considering they were entering the U.S. market with only one customer: us. SEEBURGER’s Hub&Spoke model provided a practical and innovative alternative.”
Kongsberg Automotive
Whenever a company in the automotive and IT integration industries expects significant benefits from complete integration of internal and external business processes on one platform, close partnerships are the key to success. Kongsberg Automotive counts on a central integration platform SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure enriched by business-to-business adapters from SEEBURGER.
Navico
In 2006, the U.S. division of marine electronics manufacturer and navigation systems expert Navico International was in need of a mid-course correction in its EDI strategy. An earlier transition from an old DOS-based EDI system to an outsourced service provider was costing the company upwards of $150,000 annually, providing inconsistent message delivery, and angering trading partners. Deploying SEEBURGER’s B2B Gateway brought Navico’s EDI operations back in-house, slashed EDI costs by 90%, and equipped IT per¬sonnel with advanced message tracking and error checking tools that cleared the decks for easy troubleshooting. As the company standardizes its ERP systems globally, all EDI transactions are expected to shift to the SEEBURGER platform.
Osram
"We found our company in the position of needing a new EDI solution which could be implemented quickly. We receive 80% of our business over EDI, and it is critical to our business operations. The ease of use and intuitive nature of the mapping designer impressed us the most as we had 19 customers and 75 mappings to create in a very short timeframe. We were able to get all of our customers and all of their transactions converted and tested well before our deadline. SEEBURGER exceeded our expectations on the project and has made our plan of one World-Wide EDI solution a reality."
-Jim Norris, Director of Information Technology, Osram Opto Semiconductors, Inc.
Pilgrim´s Pride
When poultry producer Pilgrim's Pride acquired the chicken processing operations of ConAgra Foods in 2003, the IT staff had a major integration job on its hands. Pilgrim's Pride had 10 months to bring 17 ConAgra plants using five different manufacturing execution systems into its SAP environment. SEEBURGER's B2B Gateway handled both the B2B and the SAP integration tasks and an ensuing jump from 10,000 to 23,000 transactions per day quickly, easily and on schedule to keep the chickens rolling out the door.
ProcServe
When UK-based ProcServe went into business as a provider of hosted electronic marketplaces in 2006, one of the company’s first tasks was to select an integration broker and transaction engine for its electronic procurement platform. Whether buying groups using the firm’s services would be purchasing pencils, medical supplies, cleaning products or computer equipment, ProcServe’s solution for processing purchase orders, invoices and other trading documents would be a mission-critical part of its business. Within a year after choosing SEEBURGER’s Business Integration Server (BIS), the firm was processing over 20,000 messages every month through the BIS gateway and was well on its way to becoming one of Europe’s largest e-marketplace service providers.
SEGA of America
"We looked at the EDI products supplied by our primary VAN, Sterling Commerce," he explained. But Sterling couldn't help solve one of SEGA's biggest headaches: how to explode a single PO from a retailer into separate orders for multiple locations. It was a familiar issue for Jake Salgado, Director of IT for SEGA of America, who had spent a significant amount of time and money with UNIX programmers writing the scripts to do just that.
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Stora Enso
Stora Enso North America decided to purchase SEEBURGER for its XML mapping SEEBURGER had a mapping tool that provided a graphical interface for importing and working with the DTD.
Tetley Tea
"The Tetley Group's supply chain operations vary in each country and the company has a long term objective to reduce costs and increase profitability by consolidating all subsidiaries to a common IT and communications system. We are looking to create an IT department and communications hub that serves the business regardless of geography. Our technical infrastructure needs to be highly focused on established standards and we are continually looking to implement business applications that assist this strategy. The recent selection of the SEEBURGER B2B Integration Server is a major and important step towards achieving this."
- Paul Kay, Tetley Group's Business Systems Manager
WHSmith News
When SEEBURGER UK announced that it had been selected by WHSmith News as its long term EDI integration partner, it turned out to be the start of a very positive relationship that has seen the range of integration applications grow
significantly.
Valeo
Valeo Plastic Omnium is among the world's top automotive suppliers of Front End Modules. Striving to increase stock rotations and consequently lower material stock levels and surface, Valeo sought an unattended EDI solution.
Vattenfall
At Vattenfall, about 3,500 invoices come in daily per fax and per post. As the manual data entry of that amount of data has been extremely time-consuming and expensive, the organisation decided to acquire a solution to directly integrate invoice data into its ERP system, and to realise process automation of validation and release. Moreover, a solution based on supplier-specific invoice templates was not possible due to the fact that Vattenfall has approx. 88,000 suppliers.
