From humble beginnings in its founder’s garage, Kettle Cuisine now produces more than 40,000 gallons of fresh, small batch soups daily from their 300,000 sq. ft. state of the art production facility just north of Boston, MA. With such large daily orders and a need to meet their trading partners EDI compliance requirements, Kettle Cuisine needed a solution that would allow them to electronically trade orders, invoices and advance ship notices (ASN) with their larger trading partners. It would be better still if that solution could integrate directly with their Aptean Ross ERP System.

In 2013, Neal Anderson, IT Manager at Kettle Cuisine, enlisted the help of B2BGateway, Aptean software’s EDI partner, to integrate EDI with their Ross ERP system. By using B2BGateway’s fully integrated EDI solutions for Aptean Ross ERP, Kettle Cuisine were able to meet all their trading partners’ mandatory requirements and were able to automate the sending and receiving of standard business documents such as purchase orders, invoices and advanced shipment notifications with large scale customers such as SYSCO and US Foods, to name but a few. Today with the help of B2BGateway, Kettle Cuisine automates the transmission of thousands of documents and tens of thousands of SKUs (product lines) each and every month.

Having an EDI solution that is fully integrated with Kettle Cuisine’s Aptean Ross ERP has greatly improved Kettle Cuisine’s supply chain efficiencies and drastically cut down on costs. As everything is now automated, the Kettle Cuisine staff no longer have to re-key orders into Ross and this leads to greater accuracy of data, shorter order to payment cycles and the freeing up of staff resources from mundane tasks such as manual order entry to more productive and profitable environments within the organization. Having a fully integrated EDI solution also allows Kettle Cuisine to be fully compliant with all their trading partners’ requirements.