UK darts manufacturer improves business processes by integrating SAP Business One, Magento, Sana Commerce, and Produmex WMS
Codeless Platforms today revealed that Target Darts, a world-leading manufacturer of darts, dartboards and accessories, has gained significant ROI by using BPA Platform to integrate SAP Business One with its B2C website, B2B portal, and warehouse management systems. Intercompany integration has also been established between its UK HQ and facilities in China, Japan and USA, helping to remove numerous manual tasks, improve business processes and explore new markets.
As Target Darts began to grow and expand its operations it became clear that its existing ERP system was impacting how the business was operating and, more importantly, how it wanted to function and integrate overseas operations.
“We had a lack of visibility into company-wide operations due to disparate systems in different countries. Multiple solutions resulted in data duplication and silos of information that prolonged reported and extended financial periods. Data entry was also manual and time-consuming. All our manufacturing is done at our facility in China and we have got an office in Japan. We also acquired Dart World a couple of years ago, which is based in the USA,” said Julie Plummer, SAP Systems Manager, Target Darts.
“Therefore, about seven years ago, we decided to move away from our existing ERP and deploy SAP Business One into all our entities, as I believed that it would improve our internal processes. We also needed an integration and automation solution to transfer our data between the various systems and BPA Platform was immediately recommended to us by our SAP partner. We now use it for everything. I love it.”
Having rolled out SAP Business One across the entire business and installed BPA Platform as the main integration solution, Target Darts was now in a strong position to integrate its various systems, including its B2C website, B2B portal, and warehouse management systems.
“One of the first projects we deployed was the integration of our B2C website, built on Magento, with SAP Business One. The main process we automated was our web orders. We use BPA Platform to retrieve the files and download them into SAP Business One. A web order will come in, we process it, and then update and sync the price and the product from SAP Business One to the website. All that syncing goes on automatically. Once the orders go to delivery, BPA Platform will go back into the sales order and mark it as closed. Another task will then invoice it,” explained Julie Plummer.
“We also use BPA Platform for our B2B trade orders that come in. At the minute they run through our Magento trade portal, which is OK, but customers can’t really do a great deal on it. Therefore, we’re moving over to Sana Commerce, because it’s a one-stop shop. As a result, we’re working with Sana to get that platform integrated with SAP Business One.”
“We also integrated our existing warehouse management system to digitally manage our inventory. Although, again, we have just replaced that system with Produmex WMS and integrated that with SAP Business One as well.”
“We are also looking at deploying Codeless Platforms’ intercompany integration solution for SAP Business One in order to manage the sharing of data between our office in Japan, our manufacturing facilities in China, Dart World in the USA, and our UK headquarters.”
Installing BPA Platform has had a significant impact on Target Darts’ daily operations, helping to remove numerous manual tasks, improve business processes and explore new markets.
“I would definitely recommend BPA Platform. It simply does what most businesses need – especially for integrating systems and applications. BPA Platform has also removed a lot of manual tasks. It does everything we need it to do. For example, we are able to process a lot more orders now because of these tools that we have. That has enabled us to explore new marketplaces, such as TikTok and eBay etc., using all the integrations that we have at our disposal,” said Julie Plummer.
“You need something like BPA Platform which can do absolutely anything. It can retrieve data from anywhere. Whereas a standard add-on can’t do that. I’m constantly asking our employees to let me know what they want to achieve, as I am confident that BPA Platform can do it. I haven’t come across anything yet that it can’t retrieve. If the data is in there, it will retrieve it.”
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