Philips Industrial Activities N.V.

Client: Philips Sound Solutions is one of the world’s leading companies offering innovative solutions in the areas of digital, flat and lightweight solutions to the global automotive market.

Challenge: To and easily map internal documents to external trading partner documents for the fast and accurate exchange of critical business, order and inventory data. Philips wanted to manage these processes in-house in a user-friendly and flexible business environment that they could migrate to at their own pace.

Solution: Philips Sound Solutions selected a combined solution of Microsoft BizTalk Server for XML and the Covast EDI Accelerator. This solution provided a platform for all future applications, while allowing for a flexible legacy data migration process. As a result, Philips is able to be more responsive, improve data exchange efficiency and accuracy, and reduce customer/supplier transaction costs.