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Adaptec
Adaptec, Inc. is a $1 billion global manufacturer of high-performance network and I/O connectivity hardware and software products with headquarters in Silicon Valley and locations worldwide.
Closely tied to the fast paced computer manufacturing industry, Adaptec designs and markets products that have short product life cycles and demanding customer lead-times. But without a silicon-fabrication plant of its own to produce them, Adaptec needed to ensure that their company, which outsources production to Asian manufacturing partners, could match the cycle times of U.S.-based manufacturers with manufacturing operations in close proximity.
How did Adaptec do it? Traditional EDI could only provide a partial answer to their issues, because the company sends complex documents to their contract manufacturers in Asia and because they needed to automate business interactions not just exchange data. Adaptec found their solution in Extricity B2B. It has become Adaptec's bridge across the Pacific enabling them to create a "virtual factory" with their Asian contractors.
Tedious, error-prone re-keying is no longer a problem for Adaptec, and unacceptable time lapses no longer figure into production cycles. Everything from purchase orders created on Adaptec's SAP system to large engineering diagrams are now flowing securely over the public network directly into its partners' legacy systems.
Up and running in a matter of weeks, Extricity Software Components for B2B™ quickly produced tangible results: A typical manufacturing cycle has been reduced by up to 50 percent. Inventory was reduced by 25 percent in six short months. Furthermore, Adaptec conservatively estimates an annual profit improvement of $2million from inventory costs and administration savings. In just the first three years the payback is expected to be 15 times their total investment. |
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