Case Study: Kmart Australia achieves faster time-to-market and cost savings with TradeBeyond

TradeBeyond simplifies sourcing and merchandising for Kmart

Kmart Australia, a leading department store chain with over 320 stores across Australia and New Zealand, faced fragmented supplier and product data, slow communications, quality-control gaps and rising costs that were slowing product launches. To modernize its sourcing and merchandising IT infrastructure and shorten lead times, Kmart turned to TradeBeyond and implemented TradeBeyond’s cloud-based CBX platform as a centralized, collaborative repository for vendors, samples, quotes, QA/QC and product lifecycle information.

TradeBeyond delivered a fully integrated sourcing, order, quote and PLM solution that standardized project templates, streamlined workflows and enabled real-time collaboration between buyers, merchandisers and suppliers. As a result, TradeBeyond helped Kmart Australia reduce data errors, accelerate time-to-market and cut supply-chain costs — increasing volume 3.5x with almost no additional headcount, shortening lead times for new products, and improving shipping, tracking and overall efficiency.

Kmart Australia

Michael Fagan

Head of Operations