Bossini Advances Its Supply Chain Strategy With the WebMethods ESB

To keep ahead in a fast-moving industry, leadingto seven
Asia-Pacific fashion retailer Bossini needed to have• Developer and IT productivity increased by up
better visibility into its business and operationalto 30 percent through user-friendly intuitive interface
processes through the synchronization of real-timeand re-use of programming objects from the
data across multiple orders, shipments andwebMethods ESB.
stock-keeping units.A standards-based solution
By leveraging the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB),With the webMethods Enterprise Service Bus, Bossini
Bossini is able to speed up the deployment of newis able to take full advantage of the standards-based
applications and processes and bring new partners oninterfaces to integrate with their existing systems
board much more quickly.and utilize service orchestration to connect their
The intuitive development environment of theexisting systems to their processes. This allows
webMethods ESB has enabled Bossini's programmersBossini to speed up the deployment of new
to easily, and quickly, build the large number ofapplications and processes and bring new partners on
interfaces required to meet its complex integrationboard much more quickly.
requirements.Subsequent changes are also easier to implement,
Upon transforming to a Service Oriented Architectureand the company enjoys cost savings resulting from
(SOA), Bossini could synchronize real-time data fromthe re-use of the service components. "The
multiple orders, shipments and stock-keeping unitswebMethods ESB enables us to achieve real-time
(SKUs) across its Point-of-Sale (POS) systems andinteroperability across numerous disparate
Warehouse Management System (WMS) inventory.applications, including independence from the
Benefits include:constraints of their operating systems and hardware
• Better visibility into real-time processes withplatforms," said Mr. Andrew Ling, Director of IT and
dynamic synchronization of data between point ofSupply Chain of the Bossini Group.
sale and warehouse management systemsOf equal importance is the platform's flexibility and
• Additional business capabilities, e.g. late shipmentease of use. "This was crucial in our ability to gain
and sales performance monitoring via dashboardscompetitive advantage in the fickle world of apparel
SMS and stock-on-hand monitoring for all markets.retailing," said Ling. "In our decision, we also took into
• Factory order allocation reduced from three daysaccount the faster adoption, lower training costs and
to onequicker return-on-investment enabled by the very
• Finance month-end closing slashed from 25 daysintuitive design of the webMethods ESB.