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Case Study

Client ProfileNational Instruments (NI) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation – a concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government, and academia approach measurement and automation. NI has approximately 7,400 employees and direct operations in more than 40 countries.

ChallengeNational Instruments was seeking a solution to address and solve the following challenges:

▶ Needed an export management system that would integrate with Oracle ERP to streamline multiple steps involved in managing the international order fulfillment process

▶ Essential processes such as invoicing and labeling were too manual and ine�icient

▶ Existing trade management solution did not o�er real-time denied party screening

Quick Facts▶ Headquartered: Austin, TX

▶ Founded 1976

▶ Global operations in nearly 50 countries

▶ Approximately 7,400 employees

▶ 35,000 customers served annually

Business Challenge▶ Planning for continued growth,

integration between business units, logistics operations, and the support of multi-location complex planning processes.

Results▶ Improved e�iciency

▶ No duplicate databases

▶ ‘Hands-free’ document preparation

▶ Defendable compliance

International Trade Operations Increased by 200 Percent with BluJay Solutions

About BluJay SolutionsBluJay Solutions delivers supply chain so�ware and services to the world’s most progressive retailers, distributors, freight forwarders, manufacturers, and logistics service providers. Transforming supply chain logistics with the BluJay Global Trade Network, we enable customers to unlock the power of more than 40,000 universally connected partners. With BluJay, companies can achieve greater trade velocity, transform their supply chain economics for disruptive advantage, and see beyond the horizon to optimize their future in the global economy.

Solution National Instruments’ objective was complete automation of international shipment processing, including everything required for export compliance and easy integration to Oracle ERP to streamline data entry, storage, and reporting.

BluJay's Compliance GTN solutions fully automates export compliance and export document production.

▶ Full, proven Oracle integration

▶ Leverages system data to automatically screen global shipments in seconds, with minimal data synchronization

▶ Denied Party Screening content is stored centrally and updated instantly, extending compliance capabilities across the enterprise

▶ Document Determination solution produces and distributes all required export documents, enabling BluJay customers to focus on running a business instead of monitoring compliance requirements

ValueImproved E�iciency:Re-engineered the entire international fulfillment process to create an integrated hands-free system, automated AES filing, export document generation, and real-time compliance screening. resulting in a 200 percent improvement in productivity.

No Duplicate Databases:Previous requirement of maintaining and synchronizing duplicate databases removed, reducing head count for this task by at least four people and enabling valuable human capital to be deployed to other activities.

Hands-Free Document Preparation:Export documentation system collates, manipulates and produces all standard export documentation sets for auto distribution via print, fax, and email to designated recipients at any number of locations. Automatically populates data on export documents.

Defendable Compliance:Every order involved in the process is subject to export compliance screening, without the need for human intervention.

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“Our ability to quickly integrate BluJay’s software with our system has resulted in significant e�ciency and quality gainswhich directly benefit our customers, our business users of the system, andultimately the bottom line for National Instruments.”

IT Section ManagerNational Instruments

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