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News Release from: Sterling Commerce | Subject: Customer Order Management
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 March 2007
Order management processing benchmark
Sterling Customer Order Management application processed an average of 1.4 million order lines per hour and 1.2 million inventory updates per hour
Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of ATandT, has announced the results of high-volume benchmarks conducted for a large, global retailer that set new standards in order management processing performance In the benchmark, the Sterling Customer Order Management application processed an average of 1.4 million order lines per hour and 1.2 million inventory updates per hour
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 25 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The benchmark measured order lines per hour and inventory updates per hour for 200,000 grocery items and 600,000 merchandise items.
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The test included a complete end-to-end order process, including creating the order, conducting a fraud check, validating and scheduling the order, confirming shipment, and handling invoicing and payment.
The benchmarks were conducted at Sun Microsystems' Menlo Park lab using a Sun Fire E25K server and three Sun Fire E6900s, all running UltraSPARC IV+ dual-core processors and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS).
"For 25 years, Sun has been supplying the world's biggest businesses with IT infrastructure that exceeds the demands of their most imposing business challenges".
"Hitting the benchmark for one of the world's biggest retailers is an accomplishment we're proud to share with Sterling Commerce," said Bob McGaughey, senior director, Enterprise Servers Systems Marketing Group, at Sun Microsystems.
"This further proves that the current portfolio of Sun UltraSPARC servers, running on the Solaris Operating System, can handle the most extreme performance, scalability and availability needs of any business on earth".
"System scalability and performance are top priorities with many companies looking to replace their first generation order management solutions," said Steven Aulds, senior vice president of engineering at Sterling Commerce.
"Sterling Commerce prides itself on providing software that has been built from the ground up to deliver not only deep functionality to help our customers solve their most complex business problems, but also superior performance by exploiting our business process engine that is specifically tuned for high-volume, online transaction processing environments".
Sterling Supply Chain Applications Suite is a set of integrated applications that enable the synchronisation and coordination of shared business processes for effectively managing demand and supply across an extended network of partners and suppliers.
The result is higher customer loyalty and sales, improved partner and supplier relationship management, and lower supply chain costs.
Sterling Customer Order Management combines all steps of the order lifecycle - from order capture through order fulfillment - into a single, unified process that encompasses all parties in a customer's supply chain.
It crosses application and enterprise boundaries to provide a central view of fragmented financial, inventory and logistics processes.
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