1. TIE EDI- Automating B2B Communication
Presented by Emile van de Klok – Managing Director
TIE Kinetix - EMEA
Guy Fisk – Sales Engineer
TIE Kinetix

2. Agenda for today’s session
TIE Kinetix and the Epicor Partnership
The supply chain and EDI
Epicor’s integrated EDI and its benefits
Live product demo
WD-40 UK case study
How to get started

3. TIE Kinetix and the Epicor partnership

4. Who is TIE Kinetix? Offices: Netherlands, DACH, France, US, Asia
In business for 25 years
Public company: NYSE Euronext
TIE Kinetix transforms the digital supply chain by providing total integrated e-commerce solutions. These solutions maximize revenue opportunities by minimizing the energy needed to market, sell and deliver online.
Customers and partners utilizing TIE Kinetix consistently benefit from innovative, field tested technology and are able to remain focused on their core business.
Publically Traded on the

5. TIE Kinetix Supply Chain Solutions

6. TIE Kinetix and the Epicor Partnership
TIE Kinetix - Epicor’s Global EDI partner
15 year - partner with Epicor since 1998
Epicor and TIE Kinetix product teams work together
Customers in Manufacturing, Automotive, Retail, Medical Devices, Distribution, Aerospace
EDI integrations with:
Epicor ERP (9), Vantage, Enterprise, Vista
Manage 2000, Epicor Retail, iScala

7. The supply chain and EDI

8. The supply chain and EDI
Supply chains consist of a variety of companies with different processes to conduct business (planning, ordering, shipping, billing, financial, etc.)
Information and data needs to be exchanged between companies but it is often difficult because businesses use different technologies, systems and methods to do this.
EDI or Electronic Data Interchange is the preferred globally accepted method for exchanging data between businesses. Many EDI standards are governed by non-profit organizations to provide a common “language” & method for communicating these processes between machines
Examples of standards: EDIFACT, Tradacoms, ANSI-X12, XML

9. Manual processes vs. EDI
Supplier/Manufacturer
Customer/Retailer
Manual Processes
Planning Schedules
Shipping Schedules
Purchase Orders
Purchase Order Change
Purchase Order Acknowledgments
Advance Ship Notice
Invoices
Logistics
$10-$15 per document, labor, chargebacks, delays in cash flow, inventory
Secure Communications
EDI Process
XML, EDI, ASCII
Purchase Orders
Invoices, ASN
Directly integrated with EPICOR, automated machine to machine, fast, error free, inexpensive, green

10. Business Needs
Need to comply with a partner’s requirements to do business electronically
Already do some kind of EDI, but it is difficult to manage new relationships
Need to streamline and automate manual processes
Rekey of business documents
Billing
Shipping
Planning
Looking to increase rating and visibility with key customers

11. What makes EDI difficult? (Q & A)
Lack of direct integration into my Epicor application
TIE Kinetix has been specifically designed to work with Demand Management, Epicor legacy and Epicor Retail applications
I need highly technical staff to manage
TIE Kinetix and Epicor can manage the entire EDI system remotely at your facility or via our 24/7 global data center
Integrations are difficult to maintain
TIE Kinetix and Epicor provide updates to our customers as integrations change over time
It is too expensive
TIE Kinetix can normally run your complete EDI system for less than 50% of current “in-house” operational costs giving full ROI usually within 3-6 months

12. Benefits of EDI
Reduces or Eliminates Manual Handling of Data, Web Portals, avoiding Errors and Reworks
Reduces Cost
Labor
Paperless
Time
Better Cash Flow
Improve Business Processes
Shortens Response Times
Lower Inventory Levels
Reduction in the Ordering/Shipping time cycle
Closer business partnerships

13. Epicor’s integrated EDI and its benefits

14. How this solution is different?
TIE and Epicor teams working together for 15 years
Integrated product management and roadmap
Example recent change Service Connect vs Direct Import
Designed to meet short term and long term integration requirements, i.e. migrations
Simple process and time saving to add partners (templates available for EDI maps and workflows) – Full graphical interface
One stop shop and knowledge center for ERP, Demand Management and EDI
Managed locally or in our world class data center facilities

15. Example architecture E9 – EDI

16. Document Support in EDI/Demand Management
EDI Transactions provided “Out of the Box”
Inbound
830 – Planning Schedule
862 – Shipping Schedule
850 – Purchase Orders
860 – Purchase Order Change
Outbound
855 – Purchase Order Acknowledgment
856 – Advance Ship Notice
810 – Invoices
TIE-to-Epicor Maps and Service Connect / Direct Import Workflows provided to support above
Robust Vantage/E9 import/export functionality easily supports additional EDI documents.
Base EDI maps are easily configured to meet Trading Partner requirements

17. TIE Kinetix EDI – eVision solutions
Workstation
Single Server (Client, Database, Application)
Windows Only
Up-to 25 partners
NetServer
All platforms
Distributable
Event notifications, can be triggered by other applications
Unlimited Trading Partner tier available
Enterprise
Real time processing, event driven, just in time delivery
Multi-processing
Webserver, Browser Interface, WebServices interface

18. eVision from TIE Kinetix
Additional benefits of TIE solution
Support all EDI Standards/Documents/Languages
Client Server Architecture
Available Web Client (Demo to follow)
Exception based processing
Completely automated through scheduling or event driven real time
notification of errors or automatic reporting
Trading Partner specific processing
Functional Acknowledgements
Multiple Data Format Translation
Workflows options to customize processes
Multiple Integrated Communications options

19. EDI Live Demo – by Guy Fisk

20. WD-40 Showcase

21. WD-40 Showcase WD-40 has 6 offices in Europe (UK HQ)
EDI integrated with iScala and parallel migration to E9
EDI as a managed service (SaaS)
Benefits:
11000 out of orders processed via EDI saving 1800 hours per annum
No additional internal EDI resources needed when doubling EDI business
Managing expectations helps to improve customer experience
More efficiencies because of centralized EDI in Europe
“TIE Kinetix has the EDI expertise and Epicor ERP knowledge to guarantee great results now and a smooth transition once we are ready to go live with E9 . In addition, the fact that TIE can directly communicate with our customers in their local language is worth its weight in gold.” – David Webb, WD-40 Business Analyst

22. How to get started Contact : Emile van de Klok – TIE Kinetix
Your Epicor Account Manager
Fill out EDI Planning Document
Request a live EDI demo and get all your questions answered by our EDI experts in a one:one session
TIE / Epicor provides back an overview of required EDI components with options for license, software as a service or a hybrid model

23. Q&A

24. Thank You
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