Case Stories

SharePoint, Power Automate, Plumsail Forms

When a design became obsolete, a paper notice traveled to every department, one at a time, whether or not the change affected them. A single notice could take up to 9 weeks to finish its route. Until it did, an obsolete design could still be printed, risking scrap, reprints and customer complaints.

A SharePoint list to record obsolete designs, and a Power Automate flow that reads each design's features and routes the notice only to the departments it affects, all at the same time, with acknowledgments tracked. 

•  Routing time dropped from up to 9 weeks to as little as 3 days.
• Affected departments are notified the moment the record is entered.
• Unaffected departments no longer get unnecessary notices or acknowledgment requests.
• The risk of producing an obsolete design is sharply reduced.

Boomi, EDI 856, Radius ERP, RestFul API

When a supplier shipment arrived, receiving staff keyed every line by hand: item, quantity, lot and package IDs, all copied from paper packing slips into the ERP. A truck could take 1 to 2 hours to receive, so material was often put away in the warehouse before its receipt was entered. Until someone caught up, the ERP showed it as missing. Jobs were held, buyers reordered material already on site, and inventory counts drifted. 

An integration that takes in the supplier's EDI 856 Advance Ship Notices, validates them, generates a properly formed API call, and drops the data into the client's Radius ERP before the truck arrives. Built with Boomi. When the shipment lands, receivers pull up the ASN, scan the packages to confirm, and post the receipt in a few clicks. Any discrepancies are flagged for review right away instead of being discovered weeks later. 

• Receipts now post as the truck is unloaded, so the system knows what's on the shelf from the moment it's put away.
• Receiving time dropped from 90 minutes to 30 minutes per shipment.
• Manual data entry for participating EDI suppliers was eliminated.
• Inventory accuracy improved, with fewer receiving errors, and buyers stopped reordering material already in the building.