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COSTUME ZONE
www.costumezone.com
Case:
Costumezone needed a powerful application to capitalize on end-to-end
integration in the web-landscape. The concept of the site was two-fold:
allowing the end user to unknowingly enter into an automated system
and select the particular costumes they required with minimal distraction,
and secondly, having the website run completely automated and efficiently
from the powerful back-end application. The main objective was to
bring the entire business process online and eliminate the need
to manage any part of the business through traditional means.
Solution:
Costumezone is a superb example of MachroTech’s expertise
in end-to-end Enterprise Application Integration and Supply Chain
Automation. Costumezone’s B to C web site is powered by eCart
e-commerce software. Due to the heavy traffic and volume of orders
before Halloween, Costumezone needed real time integration capabilities
with its preferred supplier. The integration module allows Costumezone
to publish up-to-date stock and merchandise availability information
on its web site, collected from the supplier's multiple warehouses.
Orders received through Costumezone’s web site are automatically
placed with the supplier through a series of HTTP GET and POST requests
without any direct access to the latter's systems databases or compromising
any security by means of direct access. Order tracking information
for orders fulfilled by the supplier is immediately posted on Costumezone’s
web site automatically for customers to view. Furthermore, invoices
received from the supplier are parsed and the data is inserted into
Costumezone’s database for the administrator to better manage
both the buy- and sell-side operations from the same system. Robust
safety-net features in the integration module immediately warn the
admin of any failures, allowing him to overrule the system and take
timely actions. Having a strong supplier integration module in place,
Costumezone decided to take advantage of its technical infrastructure
and increase product visibility by publishing its products on an
online catalog web site, CatalogCity.com. MachroTech created an
integration module that automatically uploads desired products to
CatalogCity’s server in their required format via FTP at frequent
intervals. Orders received from CatalogCity are unzipped using a
dynamically generated password key and meticulously parsed and inserted
into Costumezone’s eCart database after charging the credit
card in real time. As soon as the orders from CatalogCity are placed
in eCart, they are in turn automatically picked up by the supplier's
integration module for fulfillment, thus completing the cycle.
Costumezone is now able to run its business operations in a more
efficient manner than it ever has in the past. The web site successfully
handled more than 150 orders per day during peak season with minimal
human interference.
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