Company - Customer Case Studies

The Boots Group Plc is one of the best known retail names in the UK, providing health and beauty products and advice to enhance well-being. As well as retailing, the company has international sales and marketing operations and also develops and manufactures their own products.

As part of their Group SAP Backbone project, Boots undertook a strategic initiative to consolidate their IT infrastructure to reduce overall operational costs. This included the rationalisation of their e-business processes, which necessitated the replacement of a number of different EDI systems across disparate hardware platforms.

Boots approached the marketplace with their requirements for a central B2B gateway for group companies. REIMS had already been successfully implemented at Boots Healthcare International as a SAP accredited technology solution so it was a natural upgrade to select SAA as the supplier for the Backbone project, to consolidate all systems and implement a standard group approach. REIMS delivers Boots with a solution that provides a transformation technology to support traditional B2B exchange as well as future B2B integration requirements, such as AS2.

Unichem Plc is a leading pharmaceutical wholesaler in the UK offering a high level of service with twice daily deliveries, supplying independent pharmacies, hospitals, supermarkets, retail outlets, prisons and the MOD.

Unichem, with their exceptional distribution network, recognised the benefits it would bring if they were able to automate the exchange of business transactions with their entire supplier community. By selecting REIMS Open Transaction Server (OTS), Unichem were able to streamline their operations, leading to reduced costs and increased competitive advantage.

REIMS can be completely automated and managed by exception. By having one integrated solution, REIMS OTS, Unichem have met their immediate and future requirements to trade electronically and manage their time-critical business processes.

Through the REIMS solution, SAA has enabled AAH Pharmaceuticals, one of the key players in the pharmaceuticals and healthcare industry, to consolidate their B2B infrastructure up and down the supply chain. AAH, like other major players in the industry, need to access vast amounts of content and require collaboration between business units for operational efficiency, relying heavily on the ability to connect applications in a secure and standards-based environment.

SAA understands the particular needs of the industry and provides AAH with the REIMS solution for EDI and XML to reduce costs, increase operational efficiency and streamline business processes.

SAA also enabled AAH Pharmaceuticals to take advantage of new areas of technology by implementing the AS2 Internet B2B Framework as part of a major supermarket chain's B2B initiative.

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