VINK

Client situation

VINK is European's largest distributor of plastic sheets and related products for construction, signs & graphics and the industry is active in 11 countries. The catalogue consists of 20.000 products.

Challenge

As VINK was executing an E-Business project for the first time, there was no existing situation. Some large customers with EDI integration were serviced through an expensive IBM hosted EDI solution. VINK turned to Softlution for our huge knowledge in technical wholesale B2B E-Business market with references.

Solution

Softlution made a conceptual design of an E-Commerce solution based on the Intershop E-Business Suite. After the design phase, VINK ordered the implementation of the B2B webshop with Softlution. VINK has more than 20.000 products in their assortment. Part of the functionality is a cut-to-size calculator for the online ordering channel.

Besides a webshop, Softlution also implemented an A2A integration with large customers (for EDI and OCI order integration) through one E-Commerce channel. Thus reducing complexity and replacing an expensive EDI-system. For stock- and customer specific prices, a real-time integration with Microsoft Dynamics AX was made. After the implementation, 3 sites - webshops have been activated in 5 different languages.

Results

The results for VINK after implementing the webshop, are:

• State-of-the-art multi-brand platform
• Fast time-to-market for new initiatives
• Increased quality of catalogue and product data
• Full-fledged EDI and OCI integrations with large customers through one online channel
• Integration with different ERP systems:
  • Denmark Microsoft Dynamics AX
  • Belgium AS400 with custom built ERP
  • The Netherlands JD Edwards on AS400