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Imbema's Digital Transformation Journey with Celigo's Integration Solutions

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Cement Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Maintenance Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Building Automation & Control Leasing Finance Automation
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Imbema, a 75-year old company, embarked on a global initiative to modernize and transform its operations. The company aimed to transition all of their systems into cloud-native, digital applications, with the goal of connecting all suppliers and customers, and streamlining operations. The first step in this digital transformation was to transition from their historical ERP into NetSuite, and find a way to integrate it with EDI. However, the lack of integration meant that Imbema-Holland’s sales orders required a manual credit check through a separate Atradius system. This process was time-consuming, with each of the 1,600 orders processed monthly taking 20-30 minutes to log, leading to delays in fulfilling orders and a poor customer experience. Furthermore, Imbema-Holland wanted to create, manage and monitor their own systems and integrations with a lean IT team. They needed a manageable, centralized platform that was extensible and supported modern standards. Read More
About Customer	Imbema is a company founded in 1947 that supplies industrial products, software, and services for the energy, construction, processing, petrochemical, and automobile sectors across 10 subsidiaries. Headquartered in Haarlem, Netherlands, Imbema operates throughout Europe. The company is currently expanding its portfolio beyond supplying products and into areas of software and services to help the logistics of delivering products like gas and grains from ports to ships. As part of its digital transformation journey, Imbema is moving all of their systems into cloud-native, digital applications, with the goal of connecting all suppliers and customers, and streamlining operations. Read More
Solution	After evaluating several iPaaS solutions, Imbema chose Celigo due to the simplicity of its user interface and the ability to monitor and manage all connections through a single platform. With the help of Cadran and Zangabee, a Celigo-certified partner, Imbema tackled the EDI – NetSuite integration for sales and purchases transactions. Following the success of using Celigo for EDI, the team decided to use Celigo for every integration across Imbema. They created an automation flow for sales orders with the required credit limit check and potential credit limit increase through Atradius, freeing up the finance team from manual processing. The team also integrated its homemade Bill of Materials (BOM) configurator to NetSuite, creating a massive reduction in labor and frustration. They are now planning to expand the Celigo integration across all 10 of Imbema’s subsidiaries. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Cement

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Maintenance

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Building Automation & Control

Leasing Finance Automation

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Imbema, a 75-year old company, embarked on a global initiative to modernize and transform its operations. The company aimed to transition all of their systems into cloud-native, digital applications, with the goal of connecting all suppliers and customers, and streamlining operations. The first step in this digital transformation was to transition from their historical ERP into NetSuite, and find a way to integrate it with EDI. However, the lack of integration meant that Imbema-Holland’s sales orders required a manual credit check through a separate Atradius system. This process was time-consuming, with each of the 1,600 orders processed monthly taking 20-30 minutes to log, leading to delays in fulfilling orders and a poor customer experience. Furthermore, Imbema-Holland wanted to create, manage and monitor their own systems and integrations with a lean IT team. They needed a manageable, centralized platform that was extensible and supported modern standards.

About Customer

Imbema is a company founded in 1947 that supplies industrial products, software, and services for the energy, construction, processing, petrochemical, and automobile sectors across 10 subsidiaries. Headquartered in Haarlem, Netherlands, Imbema operates throughout Europe. The company is currently expanding its portfolio beyond supplying products and into areas of software and services to help the logistics of delivering products like gas and grains from ports to ships. As part of its digital transformation journey, Imbema is moving all of their systems into cloud-native, digital applications, with the goal of connecting all suppliers and customers, and streamlining operations.

Solution

After evaluating several iPaaS solutions, Imbema chose Celigo due to the simplicity of its user interface and the ability to monitor and manage all connections through a single platform. With the help of Cadran and Zangabee, a Celigo-certified partner, Imbema tackled the EDI – NetSuite integration for sales and purchases transactions. Following the success of using Celigo for EDI, the team decided to use Celigo for every integration across Imbema. They created an automation flow for sales orders with the required credit limit check and potential credit limit increase through Atradius, freeing up the finance team from manual processing. The team also integrated its homemade Bill of Materials (BOM) configurator to NetSuite, creating a massive reduction in labor and frustration. They are now planning to expand the Celigo integration across all 10 of Imbema’s subsidiaries.

Impact #1	The implementation of Celigo’s platform has brought about significant operational efficiencies for Imbema. The platform has allowed their small IT and Engineering teams to self-serve on a day-to-day basis without any 3rd party integration help, enabling them to stay ‘lean and mean’ and focus on building other key automations. The previously required manual intervention was greatly reduced, freeing up time for employees in various departments to focus on revenue-generating, customer-centric activities. In addition to operational efficiencies, Celigo’s platform also helped Imbema reduce costs and enhance customer experience, while allowing them to easily scale as the company grows. The company has been able to pivot from just being a reseller to now being able to provide applications and services directly to their customers.

Impact #1

The implementation of Celigo’s platform has brought about significant operational efficiencies for Imbema. The platform has allowed their small IT and Engineering teams to self-serve on a day-to-day basis without any 3rd party integration help, enabling them to stay ‘lean and mean’ and focus on building other key automations. The previously required manual intervention was greatly reduced, freeing up time for employees in various departments to focus on revenue-generating, customer-centric activities. In addition to operational efficiencies, Celigo’s platform also helped Imbema reduce costs and enhance customer experience, while allowing them to easily scale as the company grows. The company has been able to pivot from just being a reseller to now being able to provide applications and services directly to their customers.

Benefit #1	Reduced time spent on processing each of the 1,600 monthly orders from 20-30 minutes to a significantly lower time frame
Benefit #2	Massive reduction in labor and frustration with the integration of the homemade Bill of Materials (BOM) configurator to NetSuite
Benefit #3	Expansion of Celigo integration across all 10 of Imbema’s subsidiaries, leading to increased operational efficiency

Benefit #1

Reduced time spent on processing each of the 1,600 monthly orders from 20-30 minutes to a significantly lower time frame

Benefit #2

Massive reduction in labor and frustration with the integration of the homemade Bill of Materials (BOM) configurator to NetSuite

Benefit #3

Expansion of Celigo integration across all 10 of Imbema’s subsidiaries, leading to increased operational efficiency

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