Case Study: Herman Kay achieves faster, lower-cost B2B transactions and a digital product catalogue with OpenText Trading Grid Messaging Service and OpenText Active Catalogue

Outerwear manufacturer improves visibility and lowers costs for transactions with OpenText™ Trading Grid™ Messaging Service and OpenText™ Active Catalogue

Herman Kay Company, a New York–based outerwear manufacturer that produces licensed lines such as Anne Klein and MICHAEL Michael Kors, faced outdated, disparate B2B communications—relying on slow dial-up/FTP links, managing multiple mailboxes, and lacking an electronic product catalog—which made transactions slow, costly, and difficult to scale.

Herman Kay implemented OpenText Trading Grid Messaging Service to consolidate and secure document exchange and OpenText Active Catalogue to centralize product information. The result was faster, more reliable B2B transactions with a single view of inbound/outbound traffic, reduced IT complexity and transaction costs, and more trading partners gaining timely access to the company’s style information.

Herman Kay

Rich Haig

MIS Director