Nebraska Furniture Mart Outsources EDI to FurnishNet

June 26, 2007  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Retail Technology on June 2007 Nebraska Furniture Mart, Omaha, Neb., has contracted San Diego-based FurnishNet to provide electronic supply chain connectivity with more 300 vendors.

NFM, part of Berkshire Hathaway’s furniture retail holdings, 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.

According to FurnishNet, more than 1,100 leading U.S. retailers and manufacturers use the company’s electronic transaction exchange network to streamline their supply chains.