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October 2009
Newsletter
Client News  |
Videotron Driving Expansion with SaaS | Read more | | | |  |
Retail Expansion by The Bargain!
Shop|
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Sandylion Moves to B2B Outsourcing|
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Industry Thoughts  | THINKstrategies - The Time is Right
for SaaS|
Read more | | | |  | Upcoming Research Study:
Transform Legacy Retail Supply Chain |
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Videotron Leverages
QLogitek’s SaaS Supply Chain Software to
Strengthen Its Retail Order Fulfillment
Business
Videotron, the largest cable system operator in
Quebec, leverages QLogitek’s
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions to
strengthen its supply chain. Its expanding cable
and wireless business demanded greater supply
chain efficiency, therefore Videotron turned to
QLogitek for automating and integrating its
supply chain with key retail partners including
The Brick and Future Shop.
Using QLogitek’s Hosted EDI System and Supplier
Order Management System Videotron is automating
and integrating core order fulfillment business
processes to support its growth with retail
trading partners. All inbound
business-to-business (B2B) transactions to
Videotron and outbound transactions to retail
partners are now directly synchronized with
Videotron’s SAP ERP system using QLogitek’s
on-demand Integration-as-a-Service (IaaS) and
iDoc adapter solution.
QLogitek’s SaaS Supplier Order Management System
accepts inbound transactions such as Purchase
Order (850) in all formats from retailers and
creates corresponding iDoc files for Videotron’s
SAP ERP system. Similarly, all outbound
transactions like ASNs (856) and Invoices (810)
to retail partners are converted from SAP’s
custom format to the standard required by the
retailers.
QLogitek’s SaaS based Hosted EDI and Supplier
Order Management systems are helping Videotron
improve its supply chain while leveraging its
investment in SAP. The immediate business
benefits to Videotron from this undertaking
include: seamless integration of retailers with
its ERP system for better visibility, reduction
in manual data entry, reduction in errors, and
faster order-to-cash cycles. Featured Products |  Hosted EDI |  Supplier Order Mgmt System | Top The
Bargain! Shop Accelerates Its Retail
Expansion
The Bargain! Shop (TB!S), one of Canada’s
largest general merchandisers and long-time
QLogitek client, has been on an aggressive
retail expansion path. Since August 2008, TB!S
has added 70 new stores to its burgeoning retail
operation – an impressive 40 percent
year-over-year growth. In November 2009, TB!S
plans to open its 250th store, a 9500 sq. ft.
retail outlet in Wawa, Ontario. This aggressive
growth coupled with their commitment to keep all
TB!S stores "well stocked, on-time, with
hundreds of everyday basics at the lowest
prices" calls for a Best-in-Class supply chain.
Running an efficient retail supply chain
requires both astute management practices and
good supply chain software systems. TB!S will
leverage QLogitek’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Supplier Order Management and Hosted EDI systems
so that it may provide its customers with
"everyday basics at the lowest prices" on-time,
spanning from British Columbia to New Brunswick.
The supply chain systems and practices at TB!S
contain all key characteristics of a
Best-in-Class retail supply chain, as
benchmarked by industry thought-leader Aberdeen
Group. QLogitek’s SaaS supply chain software
systems enable TB!S to automate its
procure-to-pay process. This is done by
seamlessly integrating TB!S to its vast supplier
community using Integration-as-a-Service (IaaS)
and extending TB!S’s traditional IT capability
beyond its four walls. These practices provide
TB!S with visibility and control over its
multi-enterprise supply chain. The end result:
on-time availability of goods on TB!S store
shelves coast-to-coast…and most importantly,
happy customers.
The case of TB!S is a perfect example of how
QLogitek’s SaaS Supply Chain Software Systems
coupled with astute management practices drive
superior retail growth even in the face of
difficult macro-economic conditions. In
competitive industries like retail and CPG, SaaS
solutions provide an opportunity to improve the
bottom-line by reducing both capital and
operating IT costs without compromising
operational competitiveness. QLogitek's SaaS
supply chain software provides retailers such as
The Bargain! Shop with the following key
advantages: reduced IT costs, increased worker
productivity at both head office and store
levels through the elimination of manual
paperwork and errors, reduced staff training
costs, and a highly efficient retail operation.
Featured Products | Hosted EDI | Supplier Order Mgmt System | Top Sandylion
Connects to Top 100 North American
Retailers Using QLogitek’s Hosted EDI
System
Sandylion, a major sticker designer and
manufacturer turned to QLogitek to streamline
and automate its order fulfillment operation.
Sandylion trades with a vast network of U.S. and
Canadian retail trading partners using
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for supply
chain automation.
QLogitek’s Hosted EDI System provides data
and process integration to consumer packaged
goods (CPG) manufacturers, such as Sandylion, to
a retail network that spans the globe. QLogitek
is helping Sandylion exchange B2B transactions
with its trading partners that include Purchase
Orders (850), Advances Shipping Notices (856),
and Invoices (810).
QLogitek solutions help CPG manufacturers to
streamline their order fulfillment business
thereby shortening time-to-market for finished
goods, in a lowest total-cost-of-ownership (TCO)
model. Moreover, QLogitek’s pre-built business
application adapters easily connect Sandylion’s
extended supply chain to its ERP and shipping
systems to improve visibility and control.
Moreover, QLogitek’s pre-built business
application adapters easily connects Sandylion’s
extended supply chain to its ERP and shipping
systems to further improve their visibility and
control. CPG manufacturers rely on QLogitek to
streamline their order fulfillment business
thereby shortening time-to-market for finished
goods, in a lowest total-cost-of-ownership (TCO)
model.
A catalog of QLogitek’s global retailer network
is available
here. Let QLogitek help you grow your
business by connecting to these retailers today.
Featured Products | Hosted EDI | Supplier Order Mgmt System | Top Why
the Time is Right for SaaS Solutions in
the CPG and Retail Markets
By Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Managing Director,
THINKstrategies and Founder of the SaaS
Showplace
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and the broader
idea of cloud computing have captured plenty
of industry and press attention, but they
have also created an equal share of
confusion and even controversy.
While there are valid reasons to be cautious
about how to approach these rapidly evolving
web-based alternatives, there is also plenty
of evidence that they are not a passing fad
and deserve careful consideration.
Cloud computing and SaaS represent a
fundamental shift in the way technology and
business applications are packaged, priced,
delivered and utilized to enable businesses
to better serve their customers, better
support their employees and partners, and
better compete in the market.
What makes SaaS and cloud computing
different from previous generations of
over-hyped technologies is how they are
delivering tangible and measurable business
benefits to companies of all sizes across
nearly every industry sector.
These ‘on-demand’ online services are
responding to a ‘Perfect Storm’ of
macro-market forces, -
Economic forces which are driving down
customer demand as well as customer
loyalty.
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Business forces which are making it
imperative that companies reduce their
operating costs and become more agile.
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Technology forces which are driving
customers and companies to become more
comfortable and reliant on web-based
services.
In the same way that the web has transformed
the business-to-consumer (B2C) market, SaaS
and cloud computing is transforming the
business-to-business (B2B) industry. For CPG
and retail companies who have historically
lived in a world with limited operating
margins, SaaS solutions can transform the
way in which you interact with your
customers and partners, and permit you to
dramatically reduce the time to market and
return on investment of new products and
services.
For more information regarding these trends,
read about THINKstrategies’ research
perspective in conjunction with Cutter
Consortium in my market analysis entitled, “Cloud
Computing and Software as a Service: The
Hyper, the Hype, and the Facts” . | Jeff Kaplan is strategic
advisor to QLogitek’s senior
leadership team, helping position the
company to offer the industry’s
premier, value-driven SaaS-based
products and services. | Top Upcoming Research Study:
Strategies and Practices to Transform
the Legacy Retail Supply Chain
QLogitek continues its partnership with
Aberdeen Group to deliver supply chain
research insights and best practices to
North American Retail and CPG communities.
Aberdeen Group's research continues to shape
supply chain practices of corporations
worldwide. QLogitek is underwriting an
upcoming research report focusing on
strategies and practices to transform legacy
retail supply chain to meet needs of the
current demand-supply network.
Our primary objective of underwriting and
promoting the research study, Transforming
The Legacy Retail Supply Chain, is to
empower retail executives to overcome the
burden placed by legacy supply chain systems
on their business. We anticipate this study
will help identify supply chain practices of
Best-in-Class retail organizations that are
growing despite current dire macro-economic
conditions.
The report is expected to shed light on
these two areas:
• How to manage the retail supply chain so
that business can respond to the immediate
needs of its demand-supply network?
• What supply chain practices can help
multi-enterprise and multi-channel retailers
cut supply chain costs and meet growing
customer demand? Currently, Aberdeen is
analyzing data collected from
over 200 retailers across the globe.
If you would like to obtain a copy
of the full research study please
contact
Jijesh Devan (Tel: 1-800-699-8204
X 346; Email: jijesh.devan@qlogitek.com). | Top  Ma
Vie Mafflu
– Winner of QLogitek’s July 2009 Market
Research Survey Contest
Congratulations to Louis-Charles Fortier,
President/Owner of Ma Vie Mafflu, for having won
the Apple 8 GB iPod Touch by participating in
QLogitek’s July 2009 market research survey. Ma
Vie Mafflu is a family-owned import and export
business representing high value and low
production alcohol beverage producers from
around the globe.
Today, Ma Vie Mafflu uses QLogitek’s Product
Lifecycle Management System (PLMS) to help
automate its order fulfillment business with a
major Canadian beverage retailer.
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