Wise Foods, a snack food company founded in 1921, sought to reduce costs and improve service by bringing their EDI operations in-house quickly and cost-effectively. They implemented EXTOL EDI Integrator for i to interface with their JD Edwards ERP applications, expanding their trading partner base, improving supply chain efficiency, accelerating cash flow, and decreasing annual EDI service costs by nearly $100,000. The solution helped Wise Foods increase EDI transactions with trading partners and transport data securely over the internet.

1. Profile:
• Founded in 1921
• Largest regional snack food company
in the United States

2. Challenge:
Reduce costs and improve service by bringing
EDI operations “in-house”
Quickly and Cost-Effectively

3. Focus:
Find an IBM AS/400 native EDI solution that
interfaced with JD Edwards ERP applications.

4. Solution:
EXTOL EDI Integrator for i (EEI)
• Expanded trading partner base
• Improved efficiency of entire supply chain
• Accelerated cash flow
• Decreased the costs of EDI services by nearly
$100K per year.

5. “
As a result, today we have four times the trading
partners and have expanded EDI transaction for
orders and invoices to inventory movement,
vendor managed inventory, remittances and price
confirmation. Furthermore, EXTOL helped us link
up with the software needed to begin secure
transport of EDI data over the Internet.
“
- Neil Bixler, Director of MIS at Wise Foods Inc.

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