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Case study: News direCt-tyPO3 relauNCh with erP CONNeCiON

TYPO3 for Australia’s leading magazine distributortogether with MassMedia studios, aOe media has realized an enterprise solu-tion, which combines ordering, invoicing, reporting and a connection to the cur-rent erP system. thanks to the seamless blending of these two systems, the entire management and processing of the News direct distribution’s product distribution now runs on tyPO3.

Challengethe News direct distribution re-launch project confronted the developers at aOe media with some interesting challenges: a concept had to be technically implemented that could manage and organize the orders, returns, invoicing and deliveries of a host of magazine titles to roughly 9.000 associated outlets with-out a hitch. Ndd offers a choice of about 1,500 titles from 250 publishers to newsagents, shops and kiosks.

• specially adapted Frontend for the clear display of all current and previous orders on an account;

• return of defective or outdated product as well as re-ordering can all be automatically handled by the system;

• Call-up of invoices and delivery notes from the “redmap” dMs via a custom-developed aP interface extension.

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Our client, News direct distri-bution,isentirelysatisfiedwiththeir new tyPO3 enterprise web Content Management system. in collaboration with the avail-able system, this aOe media-realized solution has resulted in a genuine,complete product management package under tyPO3 operation.

Elmar Platzer,Chief Operating OfficerMassMedia Studios Pty Ltd.

Solution this intelligent enterprise solution, including website, was made possible thanks to a large number of custom-programmed tyPO3 extensions. No less than 3 separate systems had to be seamlessly integrated with one another: the enterprise resource planning system “aPPX”, the document management system, “redmap”, as well as the reporting solution “Crystal reports”. this means that the entire sales, marketing, ordering, storage record, disposition and distribution of the many titles in stock now run through the aPPX-server. the erP server’s databank also synchronizes with the tyPO3 server’s MysQl

databank. these databanks are connected with one another and accessed via specially adapted extensions. all data sets: magazine titles, client information, follow-up orders and new orders, as well as the display of defective stock; are available on both the tyPO3 databank and the erP. storage comparisons to facilitate orders, re-orders or return of stock from customers are taken care of during overnight automatic synchronization of the data sets on both servers.

All orders can now be independently activated by the relevant newsagent or shop. The previously unreliable business and contact model via tele-phone has been superseded by a fully automated, easy-to-use and secure TYPO3 system. This enables not only a vastly improved client service but also results in significant cost reductions.

News Direct MaGaziNes are Our busiNess.

About NDD:News direct distribution is australia’s leading marketing, distribution and sales organiza-tion for the consumer magazine sector. Ndd is a member of the Print Media Group (iPMG) and works out of alexandria.

aOe media is the world market leader for tyPO3 enterprise web CMs solutions. with several hundred client references, including bertels-mann, Cisco systems, congstar/telekom and VMware and more than 200 custom-developed tyPO3 extensions to its credit, aOe media boasts an impressive list of completed projects. For further informa-tion: www.aoemedia.com.

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