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The retail industry relies upon the efficient management of complex relationships between suppliers and buyers and a proven business
integration system is essential for successful information flow to enable effective collaboration between trading and other business partners.
Many organisations in the retail industry are realising the benefits of adopting standards to share business information to automate supply chains, leading to reduced costs.
SAA understands the challenges of the retail industry and provides the solutions that support all the major standards, such as AS2, for secure and effective business integration.
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The focus is now on achieving business improvement,
using established IT infrastructures to achieve internal and external
interoperability - the benefits of an interconnected world.
Businesses today want B2B communication integration to ensure the best return on investment for present and future integration.
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The Focus Group is currently the second largest DIY group in the UK. Now boasting over 450 outlets,
the Group offers an extensive range of home improvement products to both DIY and trade customers.
Focus wanted to upgrade their existing business interoperability capability to a consolidated infrastructure to gain greater
usability and control over their business integration activity.
Based upon Focus’ strategy for core applications, SAA proposed REIMS Open Transaction Server (OTS) on IBM System i (iSeries) to
provide the enterprise with an intelligent architecture that would support a concurrent processing and communications
environment for their high volume of traffic.
REIMS OTS provides Focus with a sophisticated solution to manage the exchange, processing and integration of business
transactions with their trading partners and suppliers.
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With sales of over £2bn per annum, Argos are the number one retailer for toys and small electrical appliances and are a
leader in many other markets, including DIY and gardening, consumer electronics and furniture.
Argos were quick to recognise the significance of upgrading their existing EDI capability in line with business integration
advancements. The multiple requirements for both internal and external electronic trading made REIMS Extranet on Windows the
ideal solution to meet Argos' business requirements and to manage both the vendor ordering cycle with their supplier community
and the integration of their payroll system with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for PAYE returns.
REIMS has provided Argos with an infrastructure that supports existing EDI transactions as well as XML-based e-business
exchanges. Through REIMS, Argos has the e-business capability to fulfil both existing and
future business integration requirements for their entire trading
community.
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Founded in 1964, Superdrug Stores Plc is a leading health and beauty retailer that combines quality with exceptional
value for money in both branded and own-branded products.
To remain market leaders, Superdrug recognised the need to improve their IT infrastructure by building upon their
existing business interoperability capability to gain greater visibility and control of their business integration activity.
To meet their requirements for advanced B2B communications, Superdrug implemented SAA's REIMS Open Transaction Server (OTS),
which has provided them with the opportunity to implement emergent technologies, whilst maintaining existing methods of data
interchange, delivering the capability for transaction exchange, within a standardised, integrated and controlled environment.
Improving communication with Superdrug’s distributors and carriers through REIMS, has led to reduced costs and improved
efficiencies. Superdrug can now maintain continuity with their existing EDI trading partners as well as meet the
requirements for business integration in the future.
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