Daymon Worldwide Follows TrailBlazer's
Path to UCCnet Success

Daymon Worldwide specializes in the sales and marketing of private-label consumer products for retailers throughout the U.S. and in a dozen countries worldwide. They also work with manufacturers to find and build relationships with retailers that are mutually beneficial. In the years since its founding in 1970, Daymon Worldwide has grown extensively. Its grocery partners account for a significant share of the nation's grocery sales, with similarly impressive numbers in the wholesale and drug markets.

Daymon knows that the emergence of GDS, specifically UCCnet, is the future of retail supply data management. "We embraced the concept of UCCnet at the start, from a standards perspective," said Aaron Gottlieb of Daymon Worldwide. "We wanted to ensure that the needs of the private label community were addressed. We understand what the issues are facing both retailers and manufacturers, and our goals are to help our retailers and manufacturers get implemented as quickly and painlessly as possible." He adds that while UCCnet technology currently works on a manufacturer-to-retailer basis, there is a future for brokers and distributors in the information chain as well. Daymon will take UCCnet product information and supplement it with relationship-specific information, passing the augmented information on to the retailer, says Gottlieb.

To accomplish this mission, Daymon turned to the ZMOD Exchange Demand for UCCnet Services, by TrailBlazer Systems, Inc. TrailBlazer was the first and only choice for Daymon Worldwide for several reasons, not the least of which was a successful past relationship between the companies.

Gottlieb says there were three keys to the ZMOD Exchange solution that made it attractive to Daymon - compliance, security, and the ability to move and map information within Daymon's own system. "They have the strategic vision to realize the importance of not only synchronizing data, but cleansing it first," says Gottlieb. "They're working to provide data quality assurance services into their solution."

TrailBlazer's strategic vision also shows its value as Daymon moves to become part of the UCCnet world as a provider to both retailers and manufacturers. "TrailBlazer has become a strategic partner with us in developing this broker/distributor functionality that no one else is really providing," says Gottlieb. "It's really a unique offering. We'll be able to subscribe to information, augment it, and publish it as a supplier ourselves."

As a member of the UCCnet Solutions Partner Program, TrailBlazer Systems offers businesses UCCnet compliance with a secure and reliable iSeries solution that is UCCnet certified for sending and receiving XML transactions.

With over 2,000 customers, TrailBlazer Systems' ZMOD Exchange software was the first EDI-INT software package introduced on the iSeries for both AS1 and AS2 support. ZMOD Exchange applications offer XML translation and mapping capabilities enabling iSeries users to send and receive properly formatted XML transactions.

TrailBlazer Systems offers the only commercially used demand side solution that runs on the iSeries platform. The features of the demand solution include a UCCnet-compliant catalog, mandatory attribute configuration, auto-response for accepting new items, correction and changes, and item querying/management by supplier and product category.

In addition, TrailBlazer Systems offers a suite of software solutions that helps companies to manage e-business transactions.

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