SilverBlaze Solutions and IBM Team Up for Automated Solution

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Thursday, December 22, 2005; 01:33 PM

SilverBlaze Solutions and IBM (www.ibm.com) announced that Picadilly Fashions has transformed its business operations into a successful business to business enterprise by implementing an automated supply chain management system.

"Picadilly Fashions is a good example of how a company can transform itself into a powerful e-business entity by making a strategic technology investment," said Dan Mair, director of e-business solutions, SilverBlaze Solutions. Built on IBM's open standards technology, the SilverBlaze and IBM solution deliver the highest levels of service, by processing orders around-the-clock for its global customer base. The joint solution is connected to the company's back-end applications that manage inventory, customer order and credit history and product pricing.

Moving from a manual to an automated system, Picadilly Fashions has cut order-processing time from an average of 15 minutes to less than 5 minutes by moving to an online model.

As a global supplier of women's apparel to retailers in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and more, Picadilly Fashions is a small-to-medium business with less than 200 employees.

In addition to improving the customer buying experience, the Silverblaze and IBM solution will help Picadilly Fashions employ new marketing and advertising techniques to explore new markets.

"Our investment in the open and integrated SilverBlaze and IBM solution has given us the tools to become a more flexible and responsive on-demand business," said XXX of Picadilly Fashions.

Picadilly Fashions adopted SilverBlaze's CAPRICORN module for Catalogue Ordering, combined with IBM's WebSphere Application Server Express 5.0 and DB2 Universal Database Express 8.1 for Linux platforms.