Case study: Retail supply chain hub
A leading retail brand in the Electronics Markets uses MXC to manage the integration of their retail systems with their supply chain systems. For this retail hub, MXC has acted as a B2Bi and EAI solution.
Retail Supply Chain
- Supports the integration of electronic messaging between all of the Retail Ordering systems and Warehouse Systems
- Tracks all stock movements into and out of the Warehouse
- Supports all movement and update information about customer orders and supplier orders
- Systems cater for about 200-retail shops and 300+ re-seller shops
Business Outcome
- 100,000’s orders per annum
- Never lost an order
- Supports all the business processes for orders including order request, returns, adds, changes, cancellations
- Handles $300-400 million of business per annum
Performance
- 4+years in production
- 10+ million messages
- ~20,000 messages per day
Implementation
- 15 separate systems connected
- FTP, MQ, HTTP and SMTP protocols used
- XML and flat file formats
- Real-time and batch modes
- 60+ message types implemented
