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UNIQ IMPROVES PRODUCTIVITY WITH IBOLT INTEGRATION
T
he growth of pan-European chilled iBOLT’s ability to process high volumes of iBOLT’s high level of scalability, as well as the
foods producer, Uniq by acquisition data and its data-mapper capabilities, which simpli � ed delivery mechanism, enabled Uniq
resulted in a number of disparate allow the manipulation and mapping of all to select the precise set of components and
systems including JBA, SAP, Tropos, IMS and data objects exposed within the project, functionalities that it required at the time of
other in-house applications, running on a combined together to signi � cantly accelerate the integration, knowing that it could easily
variety of IBM and Windows platforms. the speed of data transformation. scale up as the project was expanded across
Uniq UK had recently invested in a new Gareth Robson, Group IT director of Uniq Europe.
planning and forecasting system – Infor said: “The entire project took just four months
(formerly Agilisys) – and needed some to complete and a considerable part of the
middleware to send data from six different success is attributed to Magic’s customer
ERP GETS LAMBERTS
systems to the Agilisys system, which would orientated approach and its ability to be
HEALTHCARE IN SHAPE
then process and analyse the data and return � exible with changes within the integration
it to their main operational systems for speci � cation as the project progressed. The
Lamberts Healthcare, the UK’s leading
planning the production volumes within their ability of iBOLT to manipulate and integrate
supplier of specialist dietary supplements
factories. high volumes of data from our seven UK sites
to consumers, health practitioners and
The company was looking for an integration into the new planning and forecasting system
pharmacists, has selected new enterprise
solution that would solve their technical issues was key to its success in helping us improve
resource planning (ERP) software to help
in the UK, and that could also be used later productivity within our UK operation.”
it achieve greater business ef � ciencies,
to support their rapid growth throughout iBOLT has enabled Uniq to move towards
increase sales and boost its pro � tability.
Europe. After considering a number of offers a Service Orientated Architecture (SOA),
Lamberts selected ERP software
from various industry vendors, Uniq chose the helping the food manufacturer to achieve
from multichannel retail and distribution
iBOLT integration package. even greater returns on its IT infrastructure
software provider, Maginus to manage
iBOLT allowed data from Uniq’s disparate through the reuse of the vast amounts of
its complex multichannel, multi-brand
systems to be consolidated into a single information held within it.
business, which includes the business-
system that provides total visibility over The information that is fed into the
to-business (B2B) brand, Lamberts and
the entire UK operation, and later, would planning and forecasting systems provides
the business-to-consumer (B2C) brand,
enable the same high level of visibility in their Uniq with complete visibility of its
Nature’s Best.
branches across Europe. manufacturing and supply chain operation.
Maginus ERP will provide Lamberts
with a system that will deliver greater
ef � ciencies in its contact centre, tighter
DUNELM MILL SUPPORTS GROWTH
integration within sales channels and
improved customer service. It will also
WITH BEST PRACTICE RETAIL SYSTEMS
manage � nance, sales and marketing,
including � eld sales force, sales order
Dunelm Mill, the UK home furnishings The company’s existing systems were
processing and warehousing.
retailer, has boosted systems’ performance not integrated across the business, so data
John Redman, Lamberts managing
across the business and can now handle was fragmented, preventing the company
director said: “Our existing system wasn’t
ordering and stock management at store from having a single view of its business.
providing us with the functionality and
level, following the implementation of Rycroft added: “Our new system
support that we need as a growing
novaRetail from retail systems specialists, landscape is supporting the business, end to
business. We conducted a thorough
CIBER UK. end, from selecting and procuring products
review of the market and the Maginus
John Rycroft, head of core systems at right through to selling them in store. The
solution offers us the best � t for our
Dunelm Mill said: “Our old technology technology will also help Dunelm to further
was in danger of putting the business in a automate existing manual processes with a
business. We needed a system that’s fully
straight jacket and holding back our growth scaleable solution that will support our long
PCI [Payment Card Industry] compliant, as
plans. We needed to replace all of our core term growth plans.”
this is business critical and the software is
systems with a solution that was strategic
very user friendly.”
and scalable.
The system is due to go live in May
“The technology gives us a solid
2009 and will have 50 users.
foundation for the future growth of our
Redman added: “The new solution
business. It has also provided a range
will give us the chance to exploit new
of opportunities to run our business
business opportunities. We wanted a
more ef � ciently. The visibility of stock ‘one-stop-shop’ solution, and the Maginus
across stores has prompted a number technology will give us scalability, � exibility
of initiatives to improve our offer to our and cost savings, while the system will also
customers.”
be a platform for expansion.”
APRIL/MAY 2009 RETAIL TECHNOLOGY
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