A Passion for Customer Satisfaction

Jameco Electronics

Jameco Electronics is a leading online and catalog distributor of electronic components. The company's broad product line includes semiconductors, passives, interconnects, electromechanical, power sources and specialty products.

Responding to increasing customer demand, Jameco has tripled its product offering in the past two years. Jameco is the only electronic component  distributor that guarantees the lowest price for brand-name and equivalent components from around the world.

To achieve this competitive advantage, Jameco turned to IBM  and its Premier Business Partner, Zobrist Consulting Group. Jameco takes advantage of IBM WebSphere Commerce's versatility to power its store front and WebSphere Business Integration products to create a cost-effective EDI over the  Internet. The solution was built to spec for Jameco and allows the company to level the playing field and compete with much larger competitor by offering a  rich catalog and unparalleled service to its customer base.

Jameco's storefront (http://www.jameco.com) is a B2C website rich in content and easy to use. It is fully integrated to an ERP back-end for fulfillment and a custom-built SCM   to allow orders to flow to Jameco's critical host of suppliers and  vendors.

SOLUTION PROFILE

• B2C storefront seamlessly integrated with Oracle JDE World ERP system
• EDI over Internet to allow orders to flow directly to suppliers through a gateway and multiple protocols (web services and AS2)

BENEFITS

• Increased competitive advantage by tripling catalog size
• Reduced selling costs with EDI over Internet
• Increased customer loyalty through better customer selection and service

SOLUTION COMPONENTS

• WebSphere Commerce
• WebSphere Business Integration Server Express
• WebSphere Partner Gateway

PLATFORM

• OS 400
• Windows
• Linux