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Saint
Jean Industries, an automotive supplier of transportation
components, with headquarters in Europe, recently purchased the
automotive casting, forging (COBAPRESS™), machining and assembly
plant from the United States-based Superior Industries International,
Inc. With the addition of this US manufacturing facility Saint
Jean Industries will enhance it’s position as a global automotive
manufacturer to better serve their expanding customer base. In
order to provide superior products to their OEM customers Saint
Jean realized that they needed to align with an experienced EDI
solution provider that could integrate with one ERP solution
on a global basis.
Productivity Challenges
Merging two companies quickly and seamlessly
The acquisition of Superior Industries allowed Saint Jean’s the
opportunity to get into the US automotive market. Saint Jean’s
knew that to successfully get market share in the US automobile
market it would need to begin with solving the problem of replacing
the existing business system with their own. They needed to be
able to address business issues in North America as well as its
European operations.
After purchasing their ERP software Saint Jean’s set out to find
an EDI provider that was approved by major OEM’s and also be Honda
certified. They began by looking at companies that provided EDI
but could also provide advanced features to add on to the EDI solution.
Saint Jean needed the ability to integrate their EDI system with
their ERP. The solution needed the ability to manage customer demand
and ever changing ship schedules in addition to providing and integrated
labeling and RF shipment validation procedure. Since Saint Jean
did not have specific internal experience and knowledge to support
a full EDI solution they looked into EDI providers that offered
hosted solutions.
The Radley Solution
Automotive Hosted EDI
Saint Jean needed to move quickly to get the ERP and EDI solutions
synchronized. After the initial research, Saint Jean contacted
several EDI providers including Radley Corporation. After seeing
Radley’s 30+ year experience in the EDI and automotive industries
they decided to move forward with Radley’s iCARaS Automotive EDI
solution as a hosted solution.
Saint Jean made their decision to implement Radley’s iCARaS Automotive
EDI solution in November they had to work quickly to make their
January 1st deadline to implement both EDI and their ERP.
Productivity Results
Seamless EDI between the two companies
After the initial implementation Saint Jean’s experienced the
benefits of a seamless solution in only one month. Radley’s iCARaS
hosted Automotive EDI solution made Saint Jean’s transition into
the US automotive market easier, and less painful. Since EDI is
a requirement by all OEM’s they can now easily branch into the
US automotive market with having all the necessary, certified solutions
already in place and working efficiently.
“Radley’s staff has been very professional and knowledge throughout
our entire process” notes Fabien Bourdon, Saint Jean Industries
ERP Project Manager, “We do not have specific EDI-trained employees
at Saint Jean and Radley came in answered all of questions and
provided a hosted solution that had the advance features we needed.”
“Radley’s ability to offer a quick, problem-free implementation,
made our transition into the US automotive market less painful" continues
Fabien, “Radley’s certified hosted automotive solution has met
and exceeded all of our expectations.”
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