Carole Hochman Design Group Renews with Inovis for Value Added Network and Product Data Synchronization Services
Atlanta, GA — January 14, 2009 — Inovis today announced that it has renewed its long-term relationship with Carole Hochman Design Group (CHDGroup), a leader in women's sleepwear. As part of the agreement, Inovis supports supply chain communication between CHDGroup and its retail customers and distributors with the Inovisworks™ Value Added Network (VAN) for business community management communication and visibility and the Inovis Catalogue™ for product data synchronization.
"Inovis supports fashion brands, like CHDGroup, and their ability to help retailers get the hottest new fashions on their shelves quickly and without errors," said Steve Cochran, Chief Marketing Officer, Inovis. "We are proud that our high levels of service and competitive capabilities gave Carol Hochman Design Group the confidence in Inovis to renew our technology partnership."
With Inovis' business community management communications and visibility, companies and their partners have a single platform to manage the movement of transactions across oftentimes complex and diverse communities, technology and support requirements. This highly reliable connectivity is supported by the Inovis Multienterprise Expert Service Hub (MESH) platform and Inovis Business Process Protection Services, four services that provide 99.995% availability by protecting data traffic quality, governance and security. The platform supports a wide range of data formats as well as connectivity, access, transport and security options, including:
Data formats: EDI, XML, RosettaNet and EDI-INT
Connectivity: Internet, dial-up, frame relay and leased lines
Access: Event-driven and store-and-forward mailbox capabilities
Transport: HTTP, FTP and SMTP
Security: SSL, S/MIME, IPSEC, VPN and PGP
The Inovis data synchronization service allows marketers, manufacturers and suppliers to share with their customers their latest product information, such as price, style, color, size and over 540 additional product attributes. Inovis offers a complete solution for item setup and synchronization, supporting the latest EAN.UCC System global standards and initiatives so that companies can move forward with confidence in a standards-based technology when they are ready. Home to more than 118 million current and unique items from more than 6,000 vendors, manufacturers, suppliers and their retail customers, the Inovis Data Synchronization service is the retail industry's largest database of product information.
Inovis' Business Community Management creates a comprehensive view of a supply chain by integrating the technology, business processes and communication of the entire business community. By standardizing the technology and business community communication, Inovis helps companies better manage the supply chains and create sustainable value through three key avenues: increasing end-to-end visibility, reducing business-to-business complexity and automating entire trading communities.
About Carole Hochman Design Group
Founded in 1930, the Carole Hochman Design Group is a dominant force in the women's sleepwear and intimate apparel industry. CHDGroup boasts a diverse portfolio of designer brands -- each with its own distinctive positioning and style -- that together comprise an impressive segment of sleepwear and intimate apparel business. The company's namesake brand Carole Hochman, is known for its premium pima cotton sleepwear and loungewear. CHDGroup also owns the luxurious intimate apparel collection OnGossamer along with several licensed designer collections including Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Betsey Johnson, Jockey, Chaps, Lilly Pulitzer and Stan Herman. CHDGroup's private label business is a major channel of distribution with diverse accounts. For more information, visit www.chdgroup.com.
About Inovis
Inovis is a leading provider of on-demand Business Community Management solutions that empower companies to transact, collaborate and optimize communications with their entire trading community. By standardizing and automating mission-critical business interactions, companies can dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of supply chain communication. This foundation of high-quality, reliable and secure connectivity provides real-time visibility across the order-to-payment lifecycle. The resulting actionable intelligence enables users to proactively address supply chain issues before they impact profitability, shortening cycle times, improving productivity and increasing customer satisfaction.
With more than 20 years of expertise, Inovis delivers its products and services to more than 20,000 companies over a wide range of industries and markets across the globe. For more information, visit http://www.inovis.com.