BlueLinx Selects Inovis Managed Services to Invest in Supply Chain
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ATLANTA (Business Wire EON) June 9, 2008 --
Inovis, a leading provider of on-demand Business Community Management
solutions, today announced that BlueLinx Corporation has selected Inovis’
comprehensive suite of Managed Services to drive supply chain
advancements and efficiency between the company and its external
business partners and customers.
BlueLinx previously relied on two separate outsourced platforms to route
vendor traffic and supply chain documents. This operational scenario
created inefficiencies due to system and operational redundancy and
manual processes. Furthermore, the operational set-up made integration
between both internal and shared external business processes and
applications highly complicated.
The BlueLinx technology and business teams saw the effort to consolidate
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) operations as an opportunity to
utilize advanced business process integration with all customers across
the supply chain. The company turned to Inovis to consolidate BlueLinx’s
vendor traffic onto a single value-added network (VAN) environment. The
Inovis team completed the implementation within 90 days. In addition,
BlueLinx decided to further streamline its processes by outsourcing its
EDI and supply chain communication to Inovis with the selection of
Inovis Managed Services.
“BlueLinx is a company that understands that
technology investments outside the enterprise can deliver significant,
strategic value to their business and their customers,”
says Sean Feeney, CEO of Inovis. “With Inovis’
Managed Services, BlueLinx has consolidated its EDI operations to
improve efficiency and service to its customers and vendors. By
outsourcing the EDI operations with Inovis, BlueLinx can focus its
resources on critical business activities.”
Inovis’ comprehensive suite of Managed
Services solutions combines hosted technology, a dedicated project team,
transaction and partner management, and service-level protection. The
outsourced solution is supported by the Inovis Multienterprise Expert
Services Hub (MESH) platform. The Inovis MESH platform is designed to be
100 percent available and the underlying Tier 4 data center is designed
to operate at 99.995 percent availability with fully-tested disaster
recovery capabilities.
“Inovis engaged a strong project team that
employed best-in-class procedures combined with the company’s
state-of-the-art network and infrastructure. For BlueLinx, the result
has been seamless data exchange with our trading partners,”
said Larry Frey, Chief Information Officer and Vice President of
Technology, BlueLinx. “We’re
eager to begin the next phase of the project, as we have the utmost
confidence in Inovis’ people and systems.”
The second phase of the BlueLinx implementation will be a data
translation project. After the implementation, Inovis will manage the
conversion and matching of BlueLinx product identification numbers to
the differing internal identification number formats of its key
customers. This translation allows BlueLinx to further comply with the
business process requirements of its customers. In addition, BlueLinx
will continue to reduce the burden on its IT department and gain
additional efficiencies.
About Inovis
Inovis is a leading provider of on-demand Business Community Management
solutions that empower companies to transact, collaborate and optimize
communications with their entire trading community. By standardizing and
automating mission-critical business interactions, companies can
dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of supply chain
communication. This foundation of high-quality, reliable and secure
connectivity provides real-time visibility across the order-to-payment
lifecycle. The resulting actionable intelligence enables users to
proactively address supply chain issues before they impact
profitability, shortening cycle times, improving productivity and
increasing customer satisfaction.
With more than 20 years of expertise, Inovis delivers its products and
services to more than 20,000 companies over a wide range of industries
and markets across the globe. For more information, visit www.inovis.com,
or visit the Inovis Community Blog.
Inovis is a trademark of Inovis, Inc.
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