L?Occitane Teams with Poly-Asia e-Technology and Pervasive Software to Improve Global Supply Chain

Published in Science and Technology on Monday, January 12th 2009 at 5:19 GMT, Last Modified on 2009-01-12 05:21:20 by Market Wire
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AUSTIN, Texas--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--[ Pervasive Software ]^{[ ® ]}[ Inc. (NASDAQ: PVSW ]), a global value leader in embeddable data management and [ data integration software ], today announced L'Occitane, a leading international manufacturer of all-natural beauty products, has successfully implemented [ Pervasive Data Integrator ]™ to enable a seamless, automated and standardized global supply chain between its headquarters in southern France, and various Asian subsidiaries and trading partners. The successful system integration by [ Poly-Asia e-Technology ], a Pervasive Market Development Partner in Hong Kong and China, provides L'Occitane with a reliable, easy to maintain, highly scalable supply chain system able to support its growing customer base.

With a growing retail presence in Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia and other countries along the Pacific Rim, L'Occitane identified a key opportunity to modernize its supply chain system when it implemented Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP. L'Occitane wanted to integrate its point-of-sales (POS) systems, headquarters reporting systems, warehouses, trading partners and customers while accommodating communication across the various geographies. Employees were spending time on redundant processes, such as manual data entry, rather than focusing on monitoring inventory and stock levels. To further complicate the situation, most of the Asian systems were strictly manual. L'Occitane turned to its Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementer, Poly-Asia e-Technology, to implement a full supply chain system, not just a standalone ERP.

"With the incorporation of Pervasive Data Integrator, Poly-Asia provided us with a much needed global approach to our supply chain concerns," said Fletcher Ng, regional IT manager for [ L'Occitane ] Hong Kong, Japan, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Macau. "In addition to greater data integrity and efficiency, we have seen a significant increase in employee productivity. Our employees can now focus on more important business tasks than manually editing data from various offices and partners."

Data flow across the L'Occitane system now includes important master data on products, prices and discounts; trading transactions including purchase orders, daily statements and invoices from the field as well as daily sales; and inventory movement. Each system is different with different file format structures and Pervasive Data Integrator is used to do repurposable mapping written with business logic. Pervasive Data Integrator converts external file formats into ERP-recognized formats and then [ integrates disparate source data with the multiple applications ]. L'Occitane implemented Pervasive Data Integrator as a way to remove many of the manual processes. With automated supply chain reporting across regions, L'Occitane has reduced operational costs and improved sales and marketing efficiencies in key growth markets.

"Pervasive Data Integrator helps to centralize system integration across different formats, which enables easier maintenance for L'Occitane's IT department," states Ken Lee, Senior System Consultant for Poly-Asia e-Technology. "It also supports the system running in schedule mode, to save efforts that formerly went to manual processes."

"Pervasive Data Integrator is the product of choice to enable a rapidly growing number of partners across the globe to help their customers better compete in diverse markets," said Mike Hoskins, CTO and general manager of Integration Products at Pervasive. "Pervasive Data Integrator is unique because of its robustness, 150+ data and application connectors and low TCO. Pervasive is proud to work with a respected partner like Poly-Asia e-Technology. Their ETL, EAI and ERP systems expertise, including Microsoft Dynamics, ensures that companies like L'Occitane will have access to superior integration implementation and services."

About L'Occitane

Based in Manosque in the Haute-Provence region of southern France, the company offers a wide number of all-natural beauty products. It began in 1976, and has grown into international markets. Besides many European countries, L'Occitane maintains a retail presence in Australia and the Pacific Rim, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, and the U.S., among other locations.

About Poly-Asia e-Technology

Poly-Asia e-Technology is a leader in business solutions implementations and customizations. Founded in 1992, Poly-Asia has expanded and carried out hundreds of projects in the Asia Pacific, most on Microsoft Dynamics Business Solutions and Epicor iScala ERP system implementations, customizations and report compilations. In addition to its headquarters in Hong Kong, Poly-Asia has expanded its business and established offices in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.

About Pervasive Software

Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW) helps companies get the most out of their data investments through embeddable data management and agile data integration software. Pervasive's multi-purpose data integration platform accelerates the sharing of information between multiple data stores, applications, and hosted business systems and allows customers to re-use the same software for diverse integration scenarios. The embeddable PSQL database engine allows organizations to successfully embrace new technologies while maintaining application compatibility and robust database reliability in a near-zero database administration environment. For more than two decades, Pervasive products have delivered value to tens of thousands of customers in more than 150 countries with a compelling combination of performance, flexibility, reliability and low total cost of ownership. Through Pervasive Innovation Labs, the company also invests in exploring and creating cutting edge solutions for the toughest data analysis and data delivery challenges. For additional information, go to [ www.pervasive.com ].

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