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Designs for Health Enhances Customer Experience and Fuels Global Expansion with Celigo
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Networks & Connectivity - Gateways
Applicable Industries
- Healthcare & Hospitals
- Retail
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Sales & Marketing
Use Cases
- Leasing Finance Automation
- Time Sensitive Networking
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Designs for Health, a provider of high-quality dietary supplements and medical foods, faced a significant challenge as it sought to scale its operations. The company, one of NetSuite’s first customers, had seen its data and operations grow exponentially more complex over the years due to numerous customizations. Each time a private label was added, the company had to custom-build a solution to manage inventory and fulfillment with each partner. The team had previously integrated these systems with another connector, but the solution lacked functionality and customization features. This resulted in the need for as many as four dedicated people to resolve integration errors and manually push orders daily. As the company was aggressively scaling globally, this setup posed a risk to its business model and was no longer sustainable. The company needed a more powerful, robust, and easy-to-maintain solution.
About The Customer
Designs for Health is a trusted source of high-quality dietary supplements and medical foods for healthcare professionals and their patients. The company provides premium vitamins and supplements directly through its brand, as well as white labeling its products for private brands, with millions of orders per year. Designs for Health was one of NetSuite’s first customers and has approximately 500 employees with operations in North America, Europe, and Australia. The company is aggressively scaling globally and is committed to improving the customer experience and driving its global expansion.
The Solution
Designs for Health initiated a search for an integration platform, considering options such as Workato, CartRover, Tray.io, Boomi, and Celigo. The complex requirements of the company quickly narrowed the choices down to Boomi and Celigo. The team initiated a free trial of both Boomi and Celigo to test the experience of integrating and automating processes between Shopify and NetSuite. After a successful trial run, Designs for Health selected Celigo over Boomi and began the process of transferring dozens of private-label stores, as well as its Amazon FBA process, onto the Celigo platform. After successfully moving the storefronts and Amazon FBA to Celigo, the company plans to leverage Celigo for all its automation needs, starting with a Sage-Snowflake integration of its manufacturing data. The team also plans to expand use cases into payment gateways and payouts reconciliation to accelerate the time to close and automate order-to-cash processes between Hubspot CRM and NetSuite ERP.
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