Customer Story
Home Meridian Makes Over its Price Change Processes with Precisely Automate
With a dedication to quality and craftsmanship, furniture company Home Meridian strives to bring style and comfort to the homes of people worldwide.
But with a digital realm that’s always moving, consumer preferences have also been changing – customers want the convenience of being able to view and purchase inventory online rather than in a physical store.
In such a dynamic landscape, keeping pace with competitors is key – and when businesses aren’t equipped with the right tools, it can also be a huge challenge.
Kathy Hill, Senior SAP Analyst for the company, had worked with Precisely Automate briefly at a previous organization and thought that it could be the right fit to clean up Home Meridian’s master data issues and speed up price changes.
That intuition was right – Precisely’s Excel-based solution was exactly what the company needed, and the fact that it’s so user-friendly even for non-technical employees was another major win.
After a brief onboarding together, other users were ready to go and Hill gained back some valuable time.
“For [IT], it made us a whole lot more efficient,” Hill says. “And it not being totally an IT tool made it even better – gave our users the empowerment they needed to do their own thing.”
With new-and-improved, streamlined processes, the Home Meridian team could link their update scripts with the approved pricing to get those numbers changed faster than ever before – unlocking a more competitive edge in an area that had previously been lacking.
And not only were current processes elevated, IT was also able to focus on larger, big-picture initiatives.
So, after utilizing the solution at two organizations, what is Hill’s final verdict on Precisely Automate?
“It’s an important add-on to SAP, and I think it can really enhance your business,” she says. “It can make you more efficient, more profitable, you can do it with less people so there’s a high return on your investment … I just highly recommend it.”
Watch the video to find out more about how Precisely Automate made pricing changes easy at Home Meridian.