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Overview

West Marine is the premier multi-channel retailer of boating and fishing supplies serving boaters online and with over 240 stores in the US. It’s an American company founded in 1968, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida has more than 5000 employees. West Marine also runs Blue Future a non-profit organization.

Challenge

• West Marine had 7 Logical Partitions (LPARs) of legacy IBMi that needed hardware and software upgrades.

• There was a lack of skilled IBMi experts in-house who could help with upgrades.
• IBMi subject matter experts had to coordinate with both business and development teams during work hours.

Overview

Peter Stevens Motorcycles is Australia’s largest motorbike and accessory retailer. They have 10 service locations in Australia and have the largest selection of products in stock at competitive prices. Headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, they have an enormous collection of motorcycle accessories and spare parts and support the largest range of new and used motorcycles.   Peter Stevens, a family-owned firm, takes pride in making every purchase a wonderful one.

Challenge

• Peter Stevens Motorcycles (PSM) used the Magento e-commerce application for their online business.
• The initial integration between PSM’s legacy iSeries ERP application and the earlier version of Magento (M1) was done using XML and FTP file transfer methods, which were less efficient and not secure.
• Additional e-commerce business functionality desired by PSM could only be accomplished by upgrading to Magento’s later version (M2).
• The new M2 version was decided to be integrated into their legacy IBMi ERP application using APIs, which required a complete redesign of the existing iSeries integration with Magento.

Overview

Calico was founded as a modest store in Bedford Village, NY in 1948. Currently, the company has 60+ retail stores in North America. It offers 10,000 first-quality designer fabrics, plus the ability to transform any of them into custom window treatments, furniture and more.

Challenge

• Calico had JDA MMS ERP package for retail business processes. JDA MMS is an IBMi hosted software package with a legacy user interface with green and dark screens.
• The user experience on the JDA MMS screen was very poor, although the software was very stable.
• To replace JDA MMS with the latest ERP package would cost heavily considering the huge effort of customization.
• Paging up and down on their IBMi screens took a lot of time, affecting their user productivity.
• Users couldn’t access JDA MMS outside of the office network.

BPCS stands for Business Planning and Control System.

Integrative Systems can help unlock new growth opportunities to bring your vision to life.

Integrative Systems can assist you in website development etc.

IBM AS400/iSeries is vast technology for someone who wants to understand it.

The need to digitally connect and communicate quickly with– customers, retailers, etc.