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Covast B2B Suite for Manufacturing Simplifies Acquisitions, Improves B2B Communications for Old Castle Architectural
ATLANTA - January 10, 2007 - Covast, a leading provider of business-to-business
(B2B) integration solutions, today announced that Old Castle Architectural has
implemented the Covast B2B Suite for Manufacturing. Old Castle Architectural,
one of the world's largest suppliers of masonry and decorative lawn and garden
products, confirms that Covast's manufacturing-specific B2B integration solution
has dramatically improved business process management, reliability and communication
for the company's complex supply chain.
A subsidiary of CRH plc, one of the world's largest building materials manufacturers,
Old Castle Architectural supplies its comprehensive line of lawn and garden
products to major retailers such as Lowe's, Home Depot and Target. The company's
recent growth has been a result of several acquisitions, making the integration
of different B2B systems and key business processes near impossible. In the
past, a customer placing an order would encounter several types of interfaces
and procedures depending on which products they ordered. This caused considerable
frustration for Old Castle Architectural's largest retail customers.
After implementing the Covast B2B Suite for Manufacturing, Old Castle Architectural
is now able to easily integrate disparate supply chain systems that enable reliable
communication and consistent business processes with suppliers, customers and
acquired parties. This has substantially reduced the IT manpower required to
support the corporate acquisition process and improve supply chain productivity.
Other impacts of the Covast B2B Suite for Manufacturing on the company's supply
chain include:
- Faster, More Reliable B2B Transaction Processing: The Covast B2B
Suite for Manufacturing has significantly expedited batch processing of critical
B2B communications, such as electronic data interchange (EDI) documents.
- Ability to Painlessly Tweak, Customize B2B Systems: Old Castle Architectural
is now able to easily tweak and customize various B2B systems and business
processes without having to rework entire integration schemes.
- Simplified Integration of Various Business Processes into the Supply
Chain: The Covast B2B Suite for Manufacturing has simplified the introduction
and support of new complex business processes following company acquisitions.
- Improved Support of B2B Communications in a Fast Growth Environment:
The Covast solution easily supports more than 100,000 B2B transactions a month.
Furthermore, the solution is designed to support exponential growth as Old
Castle Architectural's supply chain expands.
“In this fiercely competitive market, I think it's imperative that our
customers find it easier to do business with us than with the competition. Covast
has helped us achieve this. They've given us a solution with infinite capability
to create and integrate the different business processes and IT systems found
in a manufacturer's complex supply chain,” said John Faeth, EDI manager,
Old Castle Architectural.
To learn more about the Covast B2B Suite for Manufacturing, please visit www.covast.com.
About Covast
Covast is a leading provider of business-to-business integration solutions
for collaborative business environments. The company provides integration solutions
that bridge the gap between legacy electronic data interchange (EDI) applications
and today's new Internet standards. The suite of products that Covast offers
is designed to facilitate fast and cost-effective business-to-business integration
with single platform environments, such as those supported by Microsoft BizTalk
Server and IBM WebSphere. Covast is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and an
IBM Business Partner. With its European headquarters in the Netherlands and
its U.S. headquarters in Atlanta, Covast has strategic relationships with partners
and customers including GXS, Accenture, EDS, HP, Citrix and Siemens. For more
information, visit http://www.covast.com.
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