Case Study: Vandeputte achieves 80% cost savings and full control of B2B integration with Babelway

Babelway has helped Vandeputte take control of B2B integration projects and save 80% of the costs of the old system

Vandeputte, a family-owned group (SOAP and OLEO) with around 250 employees, struggled with slow, costly B2B/EDI operations run on in‑house servers using Synchrolink and managed by an external provider. An Axapta 2009 upgrade and tight Carrefour deadlines made the existing setup untenable, so Vandeputte evaluated options and chose Babelway’s B2B integration SaaS (with Babel Academy training) to regain control and avoid the high upfront costs of alternatives like BizTalk.

Using Babelway, Vandeputte’s IT team learned to build mappings and run exchanges themselves (about 2–3 weeks to become productive), went live with e‑invoicing to Carrefour within days, and planned migration of 12 order, 2 DESADV and 3 invoice flows. Babelway eliminated external mapping costs, removed the need for one internal server, improved partner responsiveness, and reduced costs by roughly 80%—Babelway now costs about one‑fifth of the old system.

Vandeputte

Benjamin Nuttin

Vandeputte