Sunbeam Shines With New UCCnet Solution
LANSA Data Sync Direct Automates GTIN Publishing
Downers Grove, Ill. — December 6, 2004 — Boca Raton, Florida, is home to one of the best-known consumer products companies in the world, designing, manufacturing and marketing products under brands such as Sunbeam, Oster and Mr. Coffee. In 2003, Sunbeam Products, Inc. implemented a solution as a means to meet compliance with Wal-Mart’s UCCnet requirements. However, in Spring 2004, Sunbeam moved off its original UCCnet solution and implemented LANSA Data Sync Direct in four weeks. Once the solution was implemented, Sunbeam republished its GTINs with Wal-Mart.
Randy Sinclair, director, EDI and E-Commerce at Sunbeam, explained why the company changed its application. “We needed an automatic process. We had already cleaned our data and wanted a process to get data from our JDE system rather than type it in whenever we had a customer request. We have 7,000 active SKUs, so you see how necessary an automated approach is to forward that data to the Global Registry.”
Sunbeam initially published 400 GTINs (Global Trade Item Number) to Wal-Mart. After implementing LANSA Data Sync Direct, Sunbeam has now published to Wegmans, Ace Hardware, Lowe’s, The Home Depot and other businesses. The company is taking a step-by-step approach to publishing its GTINs. Sinclair said, “We prepare and publish GTINs according to the SKUs for each customer. For example, we published 300 GTINs to Lowe’s and 50 to Wegmans. We will publish more GTINs as our customers become ready to receive them.”
LANSA Data Sync Direct runs on an OS/400 platform and interfaces with Sunbeam’s ERP system, JD Edwards World. Users access data through Windows XP clients connected to an eServer iSeries 830.
Alan Christensen, LANSA’s vice president of solution products, said, “Sunbeam is typical of our customers that wanted to leverage their investment of enterprise Item data in their ERP system (in this case JDE on iSeries). Because LANSA supports integration with over 20 ERP systems, implementation services are straightforward with known mappings to specific releases. The interface to the LANSA synchronization solution is a simple browser-based interface that retrieves key JDE attributes in a real-time mode and brings them up in our GTIN Manager. LANSA Data Sync Direct’s validation rules then ensure the data is EAN.UCC-compliant before sending to UCCnet.“
Sinclair added, “We picked LANSA Data Sync Direct for two reasons: we needed to meet Wal-Mart’s deadline of January 1, 2004, and we were looking for products certified with UCCnet. Because LANSA Data Sync Direct is one of the few solutions certified in every area, we can use it for our long-term solution.”
About Sunbeam Products, Inc.
Sunbeam Products, Inc., a subsidiary of American Household, Inc., is a leading global consumer products company that designs, manufactures, and markets, nationally and internationally, a diverse portfolio of consumer products under such world-class brands as Sunbeam®, Oster®, Mr. Coffee®, and Health o meter®. The company has over 3,000 employees worldwide and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Sunbeam Products has offices located in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela and Hong Kong, as well as manufacturing facilities in the United States, Mexico and Venezuela. For more information visit www.sunbeam.com
About LANSA
LANSA is a software company that helps customers enhance their business performance through the effective use of leading-edge technologies, services and solutions. LANSA’s products provide offerings in the areas of application development, e-business solutions, technology integration and data access. LANSA has evolved into a powerful family of products and solutions that support IBM iSeries, AS/400, Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms. Founded in 1987, LANSA has over 6,700 installations in more than 67 countries including e-business solutions for world-leading companies like Visa, Hershey Foods, General Electric Appliances and Dean Foods. For more information visit www.lansa.com
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