CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

CSS Implementation At Regal Beloit: A Case Study

Rob Rush, Regal BeloitGary Yang, Roundview Technologies

SpeakersRob Rush – Regal Beloit Corporation

• IT Manager• IT Business Solutions Group• Regal Beloit Corporation• MWUG Member

Gary Yang – Roundview Technologies• President and Principal Consultant• Frequent Speaker At QAD User Conferences• MWUG Member

CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Regal Beloit Corporation (RBC)• Manufacturing Leader

– Electric motors– Mechanical and electrical motion controls – Power generation products – Serving markets throughout the world

• Headquartered in Beloit Wisconsin• Manufacturing, sales, and service facilities throughout the world• S&P Mid Cap 400 Index & Russell 2000 Index

CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Choose A B2B Solution

• Regal Beloit Needs A B2B Presence– Meet customer’s requirements– Help streamline the order processing

• Choices– Home grown system– QAD CSS– Others

• QAD Customer Self-Service Was Chosen– Regal Beloit (A O Smith EPC at that time) licensed to use CSS– Tight integration with QAD ERP– Features satisfy most requirements– Good platform to build additional functions

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Strategy: Development Model

Best Practices Validation

Web Team &IT Supplier Input

LeadershipInputs

Company Values &

Strategies

Competitor Research &

Analysis

Customer Research & Analysis

Web Strategy

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Strategy: Leadership Inputs

• Interactive

• Visit repeatedly

• Easy to do business with

• Brings added value

• Easy to navigate

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Highest Priority Deliverables

• Visibility Features– Inventory Availability– Pricing– Order Status Including Shipment Information– Order Entry– Product Cross Reference

• Technical Information– Drawings, Diagrams and Photos– Nameplate and Rating Data– Performance Data– Features

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Initiative Objectives

• Brand image

• Easy to navigate

• Manage content quickly

• Easy access to data

• Ecommerce

Promote an atmosphere for revenue growth

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Challenges• Product Catalog

– What to publish?– How to publish?– When to publish?

• Using Trade Management Data– Determines if the item should be in CSS– Determines “My Products” category– Performance issues

• Parametric Search– In CSS or outside CSS– How to integrate if developed outside QAD

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Design & Development

• CSS Implementations & Customizations – Look & Feel can be adjusted with Cascading Style

Sheets, images and System Registry– Business functions can be configured with the flexible

CSS design– Customizations are still needed when requirements

cannot be met with configuration changes – Use of CSS customization extension layer to execute

the customizations

CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Design & Development (Cont.)

Customer Portal and Public Portal

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Design & Development (Cont.)

CSS Data Replications – An Example

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Design & Development (Cont.)

• Parametric Search– Developed on Ektron / .Net platform by another

vendor– Using AJAX to integrate the Ektron pages with CSS

page– Developed CSS XML interfaces for AJAX to query

CSS data and create transactions– Use dedicated WebSpeed agents for AJAX calls

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Advance Catalog SearchThe Integration

• Search from Public Portal or Customer Portal

• Customer Portal search includes additional customer-centric information:– Customer part number– Available inventory– Customer’s net price– Ability to add to cart

• Integration of:– Public Portal databases (Data Repository)– QAD CSS (Secure customer login)– Ektron (Web – User Interface)

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Advance Catalog SearchThe Integration

CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Demo

CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

CSS Case Study – Regal Beloit

Questions?

Contact Rob Rush At rob.rush@RegalBeloit.com

Or

Gary Yang At gary.yang@roundviewtech.com / LinkedIn