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P24 ~ 2/2010 ~ TIE

BUSINESS INTEGRATION Text Cees Steijger

Champagne!Successful EDI roll-out in France

saging Portal from internal and external locations in order to complete their tasks.

IntegratIon After William Grant & Sons and Rémy Cointreau entered into their joint venture in 2008, the need arose to approach automation more effi-ciently. They were working with SAP and TIE Kinetix was given the job of adminis-tering EDI between the existing SAP ERP environment and the systems of retail partners. Furthermore, the EDI system would have to rationalise messaging in the supply chain. “What’s more, in Janu-ary 2010 we started a new project focuss-ing on the secure electronic processing of invoices. One of our biggest retail customers is also involved in this. In this way, we will improve our own efficiency and also help the customer to shorten processing time. And our invoices will be paid quicker.” In the future, Lixir, sup-ported by TIE France, will connect most of its customers and suppliers to the TIE Messaging Portal to create a B2B environ-ment that fully meets all of the require-ments that Lixir’s business partners have set for messaging.

“We use the TIE Kinetix Messaging

Portal to efficiently

handle about 5,000

messages per month.”

BusIness transactIons We spoke to Aurélien Caulem, IT Director at Lixir, about the opportunities provided by electronic data interchange (EDI). “We’ve been working with TIE France on automating our messaging since 2009,” says Aurélien. “We use the TIE Kinetix Messaging Portal to efficiently handle about 5,000 messages per month. These are mostly messages between our partners and custom-

Lixir is a joint venture between the independent family-run companies William Grant & Sons and Rémy

Cointreau. Lixir’s headquarters is in Paris, on the Avenue du Capitaine Glarner in the suburb of Saint-Ouen. In this industrial area between the Zone Industrielle Des Dock and the Boulevard Périphérique, Lixir rubs shoulders with some other big names that have their French head-quarters here, including Nokia, Danone, Citroën and Alstom. With a turnover of €192 million, Lixir occupies a strong po-sition in the spirits market. Famous Lixir brands include Grant’s, Glenfiddich, Piper Heidsieck, Cointreau, and a lot more.

ers, as well as orders, order documents, packing notes and invoices.” The TIE Messaging Portal is, exactly as its name sug-gests, a corporate portal for business transactions with the outside world. All internal applications can be integrated with the TIE Messaging Portal in order to continue to effectively control the transaction processes. Externally, all standards and com-munication protocols are supported by one and the same application. Users can log in to the TIE Mes-

Lixir is a major supplier of champagne and spirits in France. For Lixir, electronic messaging is of major im-portance in its daily opera-tions and communication with its trading partners