ACCO Uses SOA, BPEL and Oracle To Ensure Order-To-Shipment 
ACCO Brands, a leading office products supplier is, using a suite of Oracle SOA, BPEL and middleware to make sure its end-to-end systems always ‘get the memo.” ACCO can ensure its shipment/confirmation information automatically gets routed across commerce, order management and distribution apps.
ACCO Brands, a leading office products supplier is using a suite of Oracle SOA, BPEL and middleware to make sure its end-to-end systems always ‘get the memo.”
With its project, ACCO executives can now ensure shipment/confirmation information for thousands of customers is automatically routed across commerce, order management and distribution apps – to ensure speed and accuracy for customers.
ACCO is using Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle GlassFish Server, Oracle JDeveloper, the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Transportation Management. The project is deployed at ACCO’s three major U.S. distribution centers, and effects 1,100-1,800 invoices a day (or about 80% of all U.S.-originated shipments).
ACCO Brands runs Oracle BPEL Process Manager on top of Oracle WebLogic Server, providing a view into a process flow that spanning over 70K steps, and is also using Oracle GlassFish Server for its online training site.
Oracle’s out-of-the-box integration between the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Transportation Management was the biggest reason for us to choose Oracle Fusion Middleware,” said Royce Heaney, vice president of Global IT, ACCO Brands, in a statement. The project took about four months, from design to development, he added.
ACCO’s system uses SOA-based BPEL (business process execution language) interfaces and processes to deliver shipment/confirmation information between the Oracle E-Business Suite and PicK ticket Management System (PKMS)/ Distribution Center Management System (DCMS).
ACCO’s IT teams used Oracle’s BPEL Process Manager and JDeveloper to created BPEL processes that work across the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Transportation Management and PKMS/DCMS applications, Heaney added.
