Gates Corporation
Manufacturer's Exchange Solution Streamlines Business Processes
A leading manufacturer of rubber belts and hoses, wiper blades and hydraulic products for a wide range of automotive, agricultural and industrial applications, the Gates Corporation communicates electronically with a vast array of trading partners throughout the world. Gates is the only non-tire-producing rubber company, with sales and manufacturing operations in all the world’s major markets, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Effective communications with trading partners around the globe require efficient-business communications capabilities. Gates exchanges more than 40,000 documents with its customers each month alone. But a wide variety of exchange standards, some of which were outdated, and an equally complicated array of communications methods presented Gates with some significant challenges. Gates needed fast, easy EDI connections that could modernize processes and handle a variety of standards while at the same time reducing expenses. That’s when Gates turned to EDS.
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