Case Study: AcuSport achieves streamlined B2B integration and reduced supply‑chain costs with Information Builders' iWay Integration Suite

AcuSport Hits Bullseye With iWay Integration Suite

AcuSport, a leading U.S. distributor of outdoor and shooting‑sports products, needed to streamline how it exchanged data with 2,000 retailers, 250 manufacturers and internal systems. Rapid growth had made custom-coded interfaces and a legacy Gentran EDI setup slow, costly and error‑prone, requiring manual format conversions across its IBM iSeries ERP, PIM, e‑commerce and warehouse systems.

Information Builders’ iWay Integration Suite, with professional services, became AcuSport’s middleware hub—translating XML/Excel/EDI, replacing Gentran with FTP‑based B2B, and linking e‑OnLine, Stibo PIM, FedEx, Salesforce and the WMS. The deployment cut design/development/maintenance cycle times by more than 50%, sped partner onboarding, reduced data errors and supply‑chain costs, handled about one million transactions in 18 months, and freed IT to focus on higher‑value projects.

Acusport

Phyllis Hodge

Senior Programmer Analyst