Cleo Case Studies Textile Manufacturer Becomes “Part of the Fabric” of Their Supply and Demand Chains

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Textile Manufacturer Becomes “Part of the Fabric” of Their Supply and Demand Chains

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation Procurement Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases	Demand Planning & Forecasting Inventory Management Supply Chain Visibility
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	Mount Vernon Mills (MVM) is a diversified manufacturer of textile and related products for various markets. They have a central philosophy of doing whatever it takes to satisfy the customer, which includes end-to-end automation of the exchange of complex business processes and transaction data. However, they faced challenges with their legacy EDI system which had become extremely expensive in terms of labor for the custom code needed to both use and maintain the software system. They also had to deal with 'Swivel Chair Integration', a time-consuming and error-prone process of manually transferring data from one application to another. Read More
About Customer	Mount Vernon Mills, Inc. is a diversified manufacturer of textile and related products for the apparel, industrial, institutional and commercial markets. They are headquartered in Mauldin, South Carolina and have approximately 3,600 employees. The enterprise is comprised of seven integrated divisions, operate 14 production facilities in the U.S., and provide distribution services to customers in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Their customers include big names such as Wrangler and Lee. Many of their suppliers are small businesses and family-owned providers of raw materials such as cotton, or finishing services. Read More
Solution	MVM adopted the EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI), which enables their existing team to manage complex integration of both non-EDI formats, such as spreadsheets, flat files and XML, in addition to standard EDI formats. This solution allowed them to integrate disparate systems, respond rapidly to market and customer requirements and eliminate inefficiencies in their order to cash cycles. With EBI, XLS or CSV file data from suppliers is automatically integrated with MVM’s back-end systems, no different than a traditional X12 EDI transaction. They also automated 9 non-EDI trading partners, with whom they exchange approximately 215 messages per month, in the form of CSV, XLS or TXT files containing order, consignment, shipment and invoice data. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Procurement

Warehouse & Inventory Management

Use Cases

Demand Planning & Forecasting

Inventory Management

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

Mount Vernon Mills (MVM) is a diversified manufacturer of textile and related products for various markets. They have a central philosophy of doing whatever it takes to satisfy the customer, which includes end-to-end automation of the exchange of complex business processes and transaction data. However, they faced challenges with their legacy EDI system which had become extremely expensive in terms of labor for the custom code needed to both use and maintain the software system. They also had to deal with 'Swivel Chair Integration', a time-consuming and error-prone process of manually transferring data from one application to another.

About Customer

Mount Vernon Mills, Inc. is a diversified manufacturer of textile and related products for the apparel, industrial, institutional and commercial markets. They are headquartered in Mauldin, South Carolina and have approximately 3,600 employees. The enterprise is comprised of seven integrated divisions, operate 14 production facilities in the U.S., and provide distribution services to customers in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Their customers include big names such as Wrangler and Lee. Many of their suppliers are small businesses and family-owned providers of raw materials such as cotton, or finishing services.

Solution

MVM adopted the EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI), which enables their existing team to manage complex integration of both non-EDI formats, such as spreadsheets, flat files and XML, in addition to standard EDI formats. This solution allowed them to integrate disparate systems, respond rapidly to market and customer requirements and eliminate inefficiencies in their order to cash cycles. With EBI, XLS or CSV file data from suppliers is automatically integrated with MVM’s back-end systems, no different than a traditional X12 EDI transaction. They also automated 9 non-EDI trading partners, with whom they exchange approximately 215 messages per month, in the form of CSV, XLS or TXT files containing order, consignment, shipment and invoice data.

Impact #1	MVM is now capable of helping their customers forecast their purchasing needs. Customers send CSV files containing extensive lists of what MVM products they currently have in stock and what they predict they will need in the near future, itemized by 12-digit MVM part numbers.
Impact #2	MVM provides customers with an invoice 'on consignment'. Customers stock large quantities of the MVM fabrics they most regularly need. They report to MVM when they actually use the fabric and MVM creates and sends invoices at the time of consumption.
Impact #3	All steps of the Refinishing transactions are automated, accurate and up to date. This process was previously difficult to track and required arduous manual processing.

Impact #1

MVM is now capable of helping their customers forecast their purchasing needs. Customers send CSV files containing extensive lists of what MVM products they currently have in stock and what they predict they will need in the near future, itemized by 12-digit MVM part numbers.

Impact #2

MVM provides customers with an invoice 'on consignment'. Customers stock large quantities of the MVM fabrics they most regularly need. They report to MVM when they actually use the fabric and MVM creates and sends invoices at the time of consumption.

Impact #3

All steps of the Refinishing transactions are automated, accurate and up to date. This process was previously difficult to track and required arduous manual processing.

Benefit #1	MVM estimates they are saving about 8 hours per month, just on processing shipping information.
Benefit #2	They process about 8,700 EDI messages a month, accepting 18 different transaction types.

Benefit #1

MVM estimates they are saving about 8 hours per month, just on processing shipping information.

Benefit #2

They process about 8,700 EDI messages a month, accepting 18 different transaction types.

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Textile Manufacturer Becomes “Part of the Fabric” of Their Supply and Demand Chains

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