Cases for the iSeries platform

POS Browser solution

Year

2003

Client

ILVA A/S

Industry

Retail

Country

Denmark (Sweden and UK to follow)

Profile

ILVA is Denmark’s second largest furniture retailer. Focused to date on the domestic market, the strategy going forward is to grow the business through pan-European expansion. A new store is planned in Sweden in 2004, followed closely by the UK.

Challenge

Point of Sales (POS) terminals in 4 different geographical locations were to be connected on-line to the main ERP system.

Solution

Installed in less than 1 month, iSeries2web was used as XML socket data communicator with on-line item/orders transfer from the ERP system to the POS terminals and on-line financial transactions from the POS terminals to the ERP system.

Result

The new interface brought 100 % transaction transparency due to real-time information via on-line POS/ERP integration supported by iSeries2web. No specially designed programs were employed in the protocol transferring XML data between the systems keeping costs to a minimum.