Her you will find current EDI news from Pranke GmbH.

The eBiss.Amazon S3 Module

With the corresponding modules, you can adapt eBiss to your processes and thereby increase productivity.
From now on, we will inform you regularly about how you can realise your EDI ideas with our products.
Use our knowledge as a tool for your digital success!

In this article, we will introduce you to the eBiss.Amazon S3 module.

What is Amazon S3?

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, web-based high-speed cloud storage service that enables the backup and archiving of data and applications online in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

S3 is used for example for:

Data storage, data archives and data backup
Mobile applications
Web applications
Software deployments
And much more…

Connection to Amazon S3

Two channels, a send and a receive channel, build the core of our eBiss.Amazon S3 module.
If these channels are configured with the appropriate Amazon parameters, eBiss can immediately communicate with S3, this works similar to the SFTP protocol.

If you host an ERP solution via Amazon S3, for example, you can cost-effectively integrate the application into your infrastructure with eBiss.
Nothing prevents your company from interdepartmental access to data, storage, software or an archive.
We would be happy to support you in connecting with our many years of experience.

Do you have any questions? Are you interested in the eBiss.Amazon S3 module? Would you like information about prices and implementation? Contact us, we will advise you in detail and at your leisure.

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Merry Christmas!

Dear customers, dear friends, dear families,

We have been wandering between two worlds for a while.

On the one side we love to have memories of former times, on the other side we are confronted with a difficult reality every day. Many things seem anonymous or exclusively functional to us.

When we reflect on ourselves these days, however, we suddenly comprehend what it is really all about. We realise how precious it is to have someone by our side!
Maybe we put aside our focus on every day chores and discover something that has been forgotten.

We gain an even greater appreciation for our partners, family, colleagues, friends and, of course, you as our customers.

It is wonderful!
Let us renew our spirits together.
It’s like a good string quartet where violins, viola and cello have to harmonise with each other. With the different parts, each of which is filigree, complicated and sometimes dominant, a piece is created that delights the audience!

Even though it may be hard for us, let us face the future with optimism!
In the end, we will have to accept challenges in the new year and master them successfully.

For more than 25 years, we have been at your side for all your EDI and digitalisation needs, and this is not to change!

In this spirit, Pranke GmbH wishes you a happy, hopeful Christmas and a successful and good New Year.

Stay healthy!
Your Pranke GmbH

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Pranke GmbH and Neogrid, the future of inventory management with AI

Neogrid specialises in optimising supply chains through artificial intelligence (AI).

Its headquarters are in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, and it also has branches in the USA and the Netherlands.

With its software NGRD3, the data giant achieved a turnover of approximately €18 million in the first half of 2021.

Since 2020, there has been a strategic partnership between Neogrid and Pranke GmbH.
As an experienced EDI service provider, we keep up with the times!

This benefits our customers, who get much more out of their inventory and transaction data with this innovative technology!

 

How it works

 

A central element is the so-called Dynamic Buffer Management solution, or DBM.

The processes in the supply chain are viewed holistically.

Various algorithms are used to calculate and subsequently reduce warehousing costs.

At the same time, flexible and intelligent refill processes take effect.

 

In practice, calculation analyses are carried out daily to generate order suggestions. DBM suggests what to buy and when.

You regularly receive reports with the AI’s suggestions. Of course, you retain control until the very end.

Orders are only placed when you give the OK!

Your advantages:

  • Practically no forecasting errors
  • Transparency of demand data
  • Simplified inventory control, lower warehousing costs
  • Flexible adaptation to changing customer demands or market fluctuations

 

Reduce your storage costs with Pranke and Neogrid, automate your supply chains without risk. Reduce shortages and overstocks. Take the leap into digitalisation!

We will support you.

Interest aroused?  We will answer your questions about Neogrid, Pranke and Artificial Intelligence in the supply chain at your leisure.

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Quintet24Quintet24

Virtual fairs with Pranke and Quintet24

Virtual trade fairs have become standard in the fashion industry.

A special advantage: digital showrooms are open 365 days a year.
With our partner, MobiMedia AG and their platform Quintet 24, we invite you into your new, digital future!
Expensive exhibition stands are – at least partially – a thing of the past.

As a supplier, you save time and money.

Collect valuable information about bestsellers or slow sellers, for example, and adapt the digital reality to your specific ideas if necessary.

With our eBiss converter and the multifunctional network eGate we realise your individual showroom on Quintet24!
In doing so, we seamlessly integrate the EDI processes into your existing IT landscape.

You want to know more?

Register for free at our Autumn Summit on 06.10.2021, or contact us directly.

You can find more information here:
Digital Summit – Quintet24 digital showrooms and digital trade fair

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Fast, efficient and sustainable: supply chains with GTS and Pranke

The textile industry is in a state of transition, both technically and socially.

Supply chains and trade are experiencing a digital revolution, and people are paying more attention to the environmental footprint of their purchases.

There are large suppliers and retailers who have sufficient resources and also the capital to react quickly to these profound changes.

The situation is often different for smaller and medium-sized companies.
There, people like to improvise, a lot is still done manually today.

That doesn’t have to be the case! The solution for getting started with cost-effective data exchange between companies is called:

Automation with the Global Textile Scheme (GTS) and Pranke GmbH!

GTS is an initiative with the aim of offering innovative and, above all, standardised solutions for data exchange.

GTS consists of three basic elements: A common language – a common, multilingual catalogue (GTS Language), a supporting SaaS platform and the GTS Data Model, which defines the data categories and is dynamically adaptable.

Currently, the Global Textile Scheme covers three fields of application:

  • Generation of master data without transcription:
    The special feature of GTS is the harmonisation of master data, which is coded with GTS and then available to the customer in real time.
  • Transparency of demand development: This means that if you use GTS, you as a supplier will quickly recognise the new demand of your dealers in the future.
  • Generation of labour-intensive certificate data. This is currently possible for GRS, GOTS and Standard 100 by Oekotex – others will follow.

This saves you time and money, and reduces manual effort.

Tedious searches for product data are a thing of the past.
With GTS and Pranke, you can access important information directly via the cloud – without detours via other channels.

We translate your master data into GTS language and integrate the GTS model into your IT infrastructure with little time expenditure.
Find your way out of the confusing and unproductive data jungle with Pranke GmbH. Simply make more out of your valuable data with us.

Pranke GmbH has been developing the technology for GTS-Cat since 2020.

We would be happy to explain how it works, other advantages and how to get started with GTS in a detailed discussion.
We are already looking forward to your feedback!

 

 

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(Deutsch) Bebilderung GTS

Global Textile Scheme – the standard for automated data exchange from fibre to recycling

Recently, more than sixty well-known textile manufacturers demonstrated their interest in the new Global Textile Scheme (GTS). GTS has been under development for almost a year by a group of ERP system manufacturers, association experts and brand manufacturers. In a webinar lasting a good hour, members of the GTS initiative clarified the standardisation of product data transmission in various use cases. The aim is to establish automated data exchange using a standardised language along the entire textile supply chain.

By standardising information and automating business paperwork, electronic data interchange (EDI) has been saving retailers and suppliers a lot of time and money for almost forty years. The upstream sections of the supply chain, however, have so far been completely excluded from these blessings. The subtle differences in materials such as fabrics, thread, buttons and buckles appeared too diverse and individually defined. Yet it is precisely this diversity that offers enormous potential for efficiency. The greater the manual effort for an exact description, the greater the susceptibility to errors, which in the worst consequence leads to the consumer not finding the product in question.

High data quality along the entire textile chain

GTS now demonstrates that it is possible. With decades of expertise in the textile industry and the corresponding networking behind him, the initiator Andreas Schneider developed the GTS Language together with forward-looking textile manufacturers, fashion brands and major IT producers. This coded catalogue allows users to communicate in their respective mother tongues. In order to digitise this catalogue and thus create the prerequisite for automation, Schneider asked Pranke GmbH to set up a technical infrastructure. Pranke has been established as an EDI expert in the industry for decades. Within a few months, a high-performance platform was created.

Suppliers can use it to track the demand for their products live, so to speak, plan better and produce closer to demand. The customer saves on short-quantity surcharges and delivery times. He benefits from unprecedented data quality because he can import all product-describing master data into his system – if his supplier is connected to GTS.

Schneider and his colleagues were thus able to demonstrate to the webinar participants not only that GTS provides the upstream stage of the textile supply chain, after integration into the existing EDI processes, with the secure, fast, correct and cost-saving building block to digitise and automate the chain from start to finish. In fact, GTS already offers the possibility of documenting the materials used, as is increasingly demanded by politicians with a view to sustainability and the ethical use of resources, and will soon be made indispensable by law.

Meanwhile, the creators of GTS are not sitting back. Andreas Schneider and the other organisers of the webinar, Intex EDV-Software GmbH, Impuls AG, Pohl Softwear GmbH and textdata software gmbh, invite interested companies to join the initiative and participate in its further development.

Experience the Webinar “GTS” on You Tube (in German).
Or read the Peter Büdel USER STORY of exceeding expectations in the GTS eBiss project.

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eBiss in action everywhere!

Pranke GmbH mainly advises suppliers and retailers within the fashion world.

Meanwhile, however, there are a considerable number of customers from other industries who successfully operate with the eBiss converter.

One example is medi Bayreuth. Since 1951, the company has been producing compression stockings and other medical products such as bandages, orthoses and orthopaedic insoles.
With around 3000 employees, the company, which is already in its third generation of family ownership, operates worldwide.

Pranke GmbH has been involved with medi with eBiss for several years. We support the company in adapting business processes at any time without disrupting operations.

Carsten Meier, IT Manager Business & Digital Solutions, medi GmbH & Co.KG comments:

“We have been working successfully with Pranke GmbH for some time now. We use the latest version of the eBiss converter.

We appreciate the reliability of eBiss. The converter can be adapted well to our modern business processes and runs stably.

When processes change, eBiss helps us to realise the necessary changes with its flexibility.

Pranke GmbH is an innovative and reliable partner.”

If you are also interested in getting to know eBiss 3 and our know-how, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We will be happy to advise you in detail and without hurry about the diverse possibilities of the flexible converter.

 

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Sustainability in the fashion industry

The most sustainable outfit is already hanging in the wardrobe. A phrase that has been heard frequently lately.

Of course there is some truth in this, but the fashion industry will not eliminate itself for this reason. Rather, it will go new ways, supported by digitalisation.

In an interview entitled “Megatrend Sustainable Fashion” in the Austrian magazine retail.at, Willibald Kofler, Austria head of PwC Strategy&, said:

“The Corona crisis accelerated both the informalisation and the digitalisation of the industry. Another relevant trend is the environmental and social sustainability of fashion labels and their product range. Here, the consumer side is increasingly demanding an active commitment from the entire fashion industry with regard to its ecological footprint and the improvement of working conditions in production locations. I believe that these trends – informalisation, digitalisation and sustainability – will be with us even after the Corona crisis and will lead to a transformation of the entire industry in the long run.”

In Germany, the recently enacted Supply Chain Act can only make a small contribution to a revolution in trade and production that must be viewed from an overall perspective. The new law defines the obligations of suppliers, who must now comply with minimum social and ecological standards.

In the past, there was hardly any choice when it came to sustainable labels. That has changed. Brands or e-marketplaces such as Hessnatur, Armedangels, Recolution or Greenality stand for sustainable production and declare war on low-cost mass production.

The development is not new, but it has accelerated due to the pandemic.

One thing is certain: Only with the help of digitalisation the transformation to an environmentally friendly way of production and trade can be done.

This brings us to the key competences of Pranke GmbH!
We provide you with comprehensive advice on all questions of digitalisation.

If the topic of sustainability is also hot for you, don’t hesitate to contact us.

With our eBiss converter, we are able to adapt your supply processes in such a way that valuable resources are saved.
This is not greenwashing. Your business is being made fit for the future and adapting to the new times.
There is no doubt about it: climate change has also reached the fashion industry by now.

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CPA.shoefactoryCPA.shoefactory

Migration to new EDI middleware successfully completed

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EDI Outsourcing Provider CPA relies on Pranke

New customer requirements demand optimized solutions. Therefore, CPA SoftwareConsult GmbH, the leading ERP service provider for the shoe industry from Langenfeld, Germany, has switched to the EDI converter eBiss of the Karlsruhe-based Pranke GmbH. After a successful migration, a modular and flexible system is now available for which CPA can program structures and make individual adjustments itself.

Advantages for CPA and its partners

The EDI converter eBiss is used at CPA SoftwareConsult for the EDI communication of partners from the shoe industry with CPA’s own ERP system cpa.ShoeFactory. In addition, a well-known tool manufacturer also uses this solution for the connection to its SAP® system.

CPA’s experience shows that the powerful eBiss system can reliably handle a message count in the mid five-digit range per month.

The modular structure of the eBiss system allows a perfect customization of the message workflow. New customers and suppliers of CPA’s partners can be connected to the system much faster and easier than was possible in the previously used system due to the object-oriented configuration approach. It is also possible to generate and integrate new message formats virtually at the push of a button. It is irrelevant whether these are well-known standard formats, such as EDIFACT or IDoc, or CPA’s own structures. Furthermore, mappings can be better standardized and summarized.

Integration of eBiss as Middleware

Abb. Integration der Pranke eBiss-Middleware bei CPA

CPA partners can also research the transfer status and content of their messages themselves using the standard web front end. “This has already significantly reduced the support effort. But also our partners benefit, as they can do their research whenever they want” notes Jörg Spiegelhoff, Managing Director of CPA SoftwareConsult, happily.

The bottom line is that the benefits of the migration will be positive for CPA and its partners, both in terms of operational processes and in terms of significantly faster and more cost-effective set-up and maintenance, as well as for future EDI projects.

Advantages at a glance

  • New connections less costly
  • Email notification in case of errors
  • Modular, flexible structure
  • Simple handling
  • Stable system
  • Fast troubleshooting
  • Optimized processes
  • Direct database connection
  • Individual programming and integration of functionalities and structures
  • Web frontend for CPA’s partners

Migration facts

  • 100 mappings converted
  • 40 data formats/types combinations created
  • 200 customers/suppliers connected

 

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Peter Büdel AccessoriesPeter Büdel GmbH

User Story: Peter Büdel’s exceeded expectations

Peter Büdel GmbH (PB) is a producer of clothing accessories – so-called “trimmings” (such as buttons, ribbons, zip tags, etc.) – and offers a very wide range of products.

Initial problem

In textile production, these “trimmings” are parts of complex article parts lists of ingredients that are needed, among other things, for the production of a jacket. For each of their products, PB provides a comprehensive data set with product specifications, care data, price and logistics data, which their customers include in their parts lists. The demand for the scope and quality of this data is continuously increasing, and in return, the customers’ batch sizes are decreasing.

Shortcoming detected

Until now, the extremely extensive data could not be automatically entered into the in-house ERP systems – this time-consuming task had to be done manually.

„Trimmings“ sind in der Textilproduktion Teile von komplexen Artikel-Stücklisten

Solution

The way out of this dilemma is an automated exchange of article data, which replaces the labour-intensive and error-prone manual process at this point.

Global Textile Scheme

Concrete Use Case @ PB ACCESSORIES

PB’s own ERP system “Diamond” does NOT provide standardised data. Therefore, implementation of PB article data in external ERP systems is impossible!

Solution

Use of the dynamic Pranke eBiss – EDI converter  that recognises – clearly proven – complex article attribute relationships  to convert PB standard data into GTS Language.

  • Integration of PB article data into external ERP systems is thus possible in an automated way.
  • Use of GTS Language data also for PB Web Portal.
PB Standard - Pranke - GTL Standard

Course of the PB Accessories — Pranke project

Agile, dynamic coordination processes between Pranke & PB on short paths. The dynamic mapping of the eBiss EDI converter recognises far more article attribute relationships than expected (expectation: a good 50% → result: almost 80%).

Conclusion

The result exceeds the expectations of the project.

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