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COSTUME ZONE
www.costumezone.com
Case:
Costumezone needed a powerful solution to capitalize on end-to-end
application
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 GoECart Shopping
Cart 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 store 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 GoECart Storefront
Software database after charging the credit card in real time.
As soon as the orders from CatalogCity are placed in GoECart,
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 250 orders per day during peak
season with minimal human interference.
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