CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit CSS Implementation At Regal Beloit: A Case Study Rob Rush, Regal Beloit Gary Yang, Roundview Technologies

Speakers Rob Rush – Regal Beloit Corporation IT Manager IT Business Solutions Group Regal Beloit Corporation MWUG Member Gary Yang – Roundview Technologies President and Principal Consultant Frequent Speaker At QAD User Conferences MWUG Member CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Regal Beloit Corporation (RBC) Manufacturing Leader –Electric motors –Mechanical and electrical motion controls –Power generation products –Serving markets throughout the world Headquartered in Beloit Wisconsin Manufacturing, sales, and service facilities throughout the world S&P Mid Cap 400 Index & Russell 2000 Index CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Choose A B2B Solution Regal Beloit Needs A B2B Presence –Meet customer’s requirements –Help streamline the order processing Choices –Home grown system –QAD CSS –Others QAD Customer Self-Service Was Chosen –Regal Beloit (A O Smith EPC at that time) licensed to use CSS –Tight integration with QAD ERP –Features satisfy most requirements –Good platform to build additional functions CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Strategy: Development Model Best Practices Validation Web Team & IT Supplier Input Leadership Inputs Company Values & Strategies Competitor Research & Analysis Customer Research & Analysis Web Strategy CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Strategy: Leadership Inputs Interactive Visit repeatedly Easy to do business with Brings added value Easy to navigate CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Highest Priority Deliverables Visibility Features –Inventory Availability –Pricing –Order Status Including Shipment Information –Order Entry –Product Cross Reference Technical Information –Drawings, Diagrams and Photos –Nameplate and Rating Data –Performance Data –Features CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Initiative Objectives Brand image Easy to navigate Manage content quickly Easy access to data Ecommerce Promote an atmosphere for revenue growth CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Challenges Product Catalog –What to publish? –How to publish? –When to publish? Using Trade Management Data –Determines if the item should be in CSS –Determines “My Products” category –Performance issues Parametric Search –In CSS or outside CSS –How to integrate if developed outside QAD CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Design & Development CSS Implementations & Customizations –Look & Feel can be adjusted with Cascading Style Sheets, images and System Registry –Business functions can be configured with the flexible CSS design –Customizations are still needed when requirements cannot be met with configuration changes –Use of CSS customization extension layer to execute the customizations CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Design & Development (Cont.) Customer Portal and Public Portal CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Design & Development (Cont.) CSS Data Replications – An Example CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Design & Development (Cont.) Parametric Search –Developed on Ektron /.Net platform by another vendor –Using AJAX to integrate the Ektron pages with CSS page –Developed CSS XML interfaces for AJAX to query CSS data and create transactions –Use dedicated WebSpeed agents for AJAX calls CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Advance Catalog Search The Integration Search from Public Portal or Customer Portal Customer Portal search includes additional customer-centric information: –Customer part number –Available inventory –Customer’s net price –Ability to add to cart Integration of: –Public Portal databases (Data Repository) –QAD CSS (Secure customer login) –Ektron (Web – User Interface) CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Advance Catalog Search The Integration CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Demo CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

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