Since 1998, Blue Dog Bakery has been dedicated to making healthy all-natural treats for dogs. Headquartered in Seattle, they make natural dog treats which are sold to several large grocery/mass retailers such as Target, Walmart and Kroger, just to name a few. Their first natural, low-fat biscuits were created because the founders wanted a healthy snack for their own dogs. Blue Dog Bakery knows that a long and happy life goes paw-in-paw with good nutrition, which they always keep in mind when creating new treats.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
As the business continued to grow, Blue Dog Bakery needed to improve their supply chain efficiencies to better serve larger customers, specifically those requiring EDI. The organization soon realized that implementing a cutting-edge cloud based, EDI solution that fully integrated with their NetSuite ERP system would remove the costly manual data entry process they had previously relied on. The automated system would also enable them to sell to more than sixty trading partners, including Target, Kroger and Walmart more efficiently.
SOLUTION
Blue Dog Bakery selected the B2BGateway EDI SuiteApp to fully-integrate with their NetSuite ERP system. The B2BGateway EDI SuiteApp is a cloud-based, fully integrated Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solution for NetSuite users that provides seamless web-services integration. The B2BGateway EDI SuiteApp completely removed the need for Blue Dog Bakery employees to manually re-key data, saving hours of manual order entry and expediting the ‘order-to-payment’ cycle between Blue Dog Bakery and their customers.
BUSINESS BENEFITS
With Blue Dog Bakery’s sixty plus customers, B2BGateway’s EDI SuiteApp for NetSuite processes each order transaction in near real time, converting incoming purchase orders to populated sales orders within the Blue Dog Bakery NetSuite system. With the B2BGateway EDI Client Portal built directly into the NetSuite users dashboard, Blue Dog Bakery employees can manage all of their EDI accounts directly from within their NetSuite system.
Combining NetSuite ERP and B2BGateway EDI, Blue Dog Bakery is able to focus on the business of baking up high-quality, healthy dog treats while, at the same time, reducing costs, gaining greater supply chain efficiencies and recording faster payments from customers.
Read the full case study here: Blue Dog Bakery
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