


Nebraska Furniture Mart Outsources EDI to Furnishnet
June 26, 2007 |
San Diego , CA , June 26, 2007 – FurnishNet today announced that Top 100 retailer Nebraska Furniture Mart has signed with FurnishNet to provide electronic supply chain connectivity with over 300 vendors. The company chose to move from its in-house EDI package to FurnishNet’s hosted network in an initiative to increase vendor connections as well as automate additional transaction sets in its supply chain network. Additional transactions sets the company has targeted include electronic invoice processing, ship notices, product sales reporting and parts management.
About Nebraska Furniture Mart
Nebraska Furniture Mart is part of Berkshire Hathaway’s furniture division and ranked number 5 on Furniture Today’s Top 100 list. The retailer was recently named Retailer of the Year at the Furniture/Today Leadership Conference and operates stores in Omaha, Nebraska, Kansas City, Kansas, and Des Moines and Urbandale, Iowa.
About FurnishNet
The FurnishNet solution integrates Web applications, electronic data interchange (EDI), XML, and e-mail into a unique "Any-to-Any" exchange for the processing of over 300 transaction types electronically between trading partners. The most common transactions types processed electronically include purchase orders, purchase order acknowledgements, advance ship notices, and invoices. FurnishNet is able to translate data files into appropriate formats for the electronic flow of information between trading partners of any size, running on any corporate system. Because the FurnishNet service is able to transfer data without the use of a VAN, the need for expensive EDI mapping software as well as a traditional EDI VAN network are eliminated, thereby reducing expenses and simplifying connectivity.
Over 1,100 of the nation’s leading retailers and manufacturers are using FurnishNet’s electronic transaction exchange network to streamline their supply chains. For more information, please call 1-800-854-2263, ext. 2348, or visit www.furnishnet.com and take the Self-Guided Tour.
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