Case Study: Leading Workflow Automation Supply Chain achieves significant cost savings and streamlined order fulfillment with DataTrans Solutions

The Importance of Integration & Workflow Automation on our Supply Chain

Leading Workflow Automation Supply Chain faced rising eCommerce complexity and inefficient, error-prone manual order processing across vendors, retailers and warehouses. To address the need for system integration and workflow automation, DataTrans Solutions provided its WebEDI and WebEDI–ERP integration services (plus custom adapters) to connect trading partners, ERPs, WMS and shipping systems.

DataTrans Solutions implemented multichannel WebEDI and full ERP integration that cut processing time per document from 17 minutes (manual) to 3 minutes with WebEDI and effectively to 0 minutes with ERP integration. The vendor’s analysis shows annual workflow costs falling from $47,699.17 (manual) to $6,255.83 (WebEDI) or $4,680.00 (ERP integration), yielding savings of about $41,443–$43,019 and reducing average cost per document from $9.94 to $1.30 (WebEDI) or $0.98 (ERP). DataTrans Solutions also delivered improved accuracy, inventory visibility and faster fulfillment.