EDI Customer Case Study - Bartle & Gibson

Logistics Series

Bartle & Gibson wholesales plumbing, heating and electrical products to contractors in Western Canada. In 1994, they were looking for ways to reduce order management costs by implementing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). They wanted an EDI application that could integrate to their existing Sentai Inventory Management System, reduce their internal business processing costs and increase order processing efficiency. This is why they turned to SoftCare.

Choosing TradeLink EDI Management System

Bartle & Gibson chose SoftCare and its TradeLink EDI Management System because they liked their approach to combining, software, consulting and services to provide an all-encompassing solution to implementing EDI. In addition, TradeLink’s advanced features such as “partner” specific mapping allowed Bartle & Gibson to quickly integrate EDI Order Cycle documents to/from its Sentai Inventory Management system. 

Implementing an integrated solution for EDI

Once the decision to buy TradeLink was made, SoftCare and Bartle & Gibson put together a project team to build a fully integrated EDI business management solution, which sends purchase orders, remittance advices and functional acknowledgments to its suppliers while receiving and automatically processing purchase order changes, advanced shipment notifications, functional acknowledgments and invoices, to/from its key suppliers including Moen, Delta Faucets and American Standard.

The next step was to choose an EDI Value Added Network (VAN). As TradeLink supports all methods of communications (VAN, FTP, EDI over the Internet etc) the choice of which communications method was based on price and not dictated by the software choice.

Bartle & Gibson - Customer Project Summary Comments

Commenting on the overall project, Dave Couture, EDI Coordinator of Bartle & Gibson says:

“SoftCare’s attention to detail and expertise in EDI implementations made them the ideal partner to implement an EDI System for Bartle & Gibson.”

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Solution Overview

Industry

Bartle & Gibson, Western Canada’s leading independent plumbing, heating and electrical wholesaler wants to fully integrate the electronic movement of Purchase Orders, Purchase Order Changes, Advanced Shipment Notifications, Remittance Advices and Invoices to/from with their supplier base into their existing business systems. They want a solution that provides a seamless transition of suppliers from paper based documents to electronic documents.

Scenario

Bartle & Gibson wanted a business solution to reduce order processing costs between themselves and their largest suppliers. In addition they needed expertise in EDI implementation to help in crafting an appropriate business solution to fully integrate to their existing Sentai Inventory Management System.

Company Profile

Bartle & Gibson an Edmonton Alberta based plumbing, heating and electrical wholesaler services contractors through a network of 28 locations and 2 distribution centers in B.C. Alberta and the North West Territories.

Benefits

Quick cost effective implementation of integrated EDI to its largest suppliers provides significant order processing savings.

Turn Key Solution

SoftCare provides a turn key solution, from initial consulting to software products to integration to final production project sign off.

About SoftCare

Founded in 1989, SoftCare EC Inc. develops e-business software. Our OpenEC® product suite allows companies to conduct business to business e-commerce. Our e-business software is open and scalable allowing for integration with existing and future technologies, lowering operating costs and streamlining the business process while delivering benefits to all electronic trading relationships.