Case Study: Weidmüller boosts electronic orders to nearly 50% and saves 8 hours/day with LANSA Commerce Edition

Weidmüller saves with LANSA Commerce Edition for JD Edwards

Weidmüller, a global provider of industrial power, signal and data connection solutions with North American operations serving 750+ distributors, faced low adoption of its B2B ordering site tied to JD Edwards World ERP. The vendor’s inflexible, Java‑applet based solution made updates difficult, kept electronic orders below 30%, forced manual phone/fax ordering, and created extra customer‑service workload and order errors.

Replacing it with LANSA Commerce Edition delivered a browser‑based, System i‑hosted B2B platform quickly (U.S. site live in about a month, Canada shortly after) with features like partial‑part matching, Excel uploads, custom catalogs and drop‑shipping. The new site slashed inquiry calls, freed at least eight labor hours per day, simplified maintenance so one HTML‑capable person can update it, and lifted electronic orders from under 30% to roughly half of all orders within two years, moving toward the 60% target.

Weidmuller

Kevin Rackley

Systems Analyst