Leading publisher pockets business benefits with Atlas EDI solution
When Management Pocketbooks, the UK’s leading publisher of self
help books for managers and teachers, was asked by one of their key customers
to take part in an EDI pilot project, the benefits of electronic trading
were clear for all to see.
Previously Pocketbooks staff had been manually
keying in data to their Sage Line 50 accounting package. To overcome this
IT Director Adrian Hunt used Nielsen Booknet and Atlas Products International's
e50 product. e50 is one of Atlas’ fast, secure, efficient and cost
effective Sage Series of EDI products that have been specifically designed
to merge with and integrate seamlessly with Sage’s accounting software.
According
to Adrian the result is significant business benefits for Pocketbook’s.
“API’s e50 product is working really well and we are now fully
integrated with a number of our customers.
“It is saving us a lot
of staff time, approximately 10%, which has enabled us to delay employing
another worker. This time has been put to good use elsewhere, we can respond
more quickly to customer orders, the data is much more accurate and we
have far fewer payment issues.
“The whole process is faster and more efficient.
“Moreover, it has reduced the amount of paper and ink we use.“
Said
API Managing Director Allan Gray:
“This is a very good example of how our Sage Series products can
really bring the benefits of electronic trading to reality by fully automating
and integrating business systems and removing expensive, labour intensive
tasks.
"With the Atlas e50 system, Pocketbooks achieved an extremely high
level of accuracy, something normally only SAP users can achieve.
"This is an excellent outcome and the result of a very effective collaboration
between ourselves, Management Pocketbooks and Nielsen Booknet."
For more information on the Sage range of products
from Atlas click here.
Atlas e50 solution helping Management Pocketbooks
integrate their Sage solution into Nielsen Booknet can be downloaded here.
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