Some details
3M: The Greek subsidiary of the 3M Company, an American multinational corporation operating in the fields of industry, worker safety, health care, and consumer goods.
NEED: Replace the legacy IBM AS/400 system with a trustworthy tailor-made sophisticated software solution to handle all company’s internal and external tax documents and statements (invoices,
etc.).APPROACH: We designed a custom software solution consisted of 6 sub-systems (modules), each fulfilling the functionality of a separate 3M transaction workflow:
- Invoicing
- RIC GIPARS
- 3rd Party Reconciliation
- Inventory Returns
- Receiving
- Product Interface
Also, we identified all necessary interfaces with other 3M systems and implemented for each one either batch or real-time communication, according to the special needs of 3M.
SOLUTION: EXIS designed and developed from scratch a Transactions Management System that supports all customized needs for creation, retrieval, validation, editing, and printing 3M transaction documents for the Logistics, Warehouse, Customer Service and Procurement departments of 3M.
OUTCOME &, BENEFITS: The deployment of the Transactions Management System allowed 3M HELLAS to completely disable the old ‘heavy’ legacy system. Our solution is since 2006 the main system that supports the company’s uninterrupted operation.
EXIS’s customized Transactions Management System allowed 3M HELLAS to:
- achieve efficient management of all company’s invoices and related transactions
- attain easy, flexible, and effective system administration
- support 3M transactions workflows
- provide 3M personnel with capabilities to print invoices correctly
- produce valuable reports easily
- fulfill new business needs seamlessly and much more quickly than before
- keep low maintenance costs.
