There’s a silent efficiency killer that’s hijacking your goals: manual data entry tasks. These seemingly harmless tasks take up your team’s valuable time, cause errors, delay processes, and prevent you from growing your business. 

Before you can rid your business of these tasks, you first need to understand where they come from. A major culprit is disparate systems. 

When your tech stack isn’t integrated, data becomes siloed and teams must manually enter data across systems just to gain necessary insights and keep the business running smoothly. This might have been manageable when businesses had eight applications on average in 2015, but today, with businesses using 130 applications on average, teams can’t keep up.

That’s the challenge BevSource, an operations outsourcing company for beverage brands, faced before they met Celigo. Learn how BevSource integrated their systems to eliminate manual tasks and automate their processes. 

Discover how Eric Batson, IT manager at BevSource, is using Celigo to streamline operations.

Facing manual processes

BevSource is dedicated to helping beverage businesses efficiently, effectively, and successfully bring their visions to life. But this goal became difficult to achieve as manual processes bogged down their order processing. 

With hundreds of orders coming from just one partner, the team was struggling to keep up. To effectively manage their orders, they needed a more scalable solution. 

That’s when the team found Celigo’s iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service). 

Automating with iPaaS

After adopting Celigo, BevSource was able to build an integration between their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and their partner’s ERP system. By doing so, they were able to easily sync data back and forth between platforms without human intervention. This allowed BevSource to grow their order volume without hiring additional staff to manage the increased workload. 

On top of that, Celigo’s advanced iPaaS was easy for the team to implement, and they didn’t have to leverage high level technical developers to build their integrations.

“Celigo is extremely easy to use. If somebody was scared about trying to implement with Celigo, I would say wash your fears away. It has dynamically changed the way we do business.” 

– Eric Batson, IT manager at BevSource

3 key takeaways

Celigo’s iPaaS played a pivotal role in BevSource’s ability to eliminate manual tasks and scale their business. As you look to remove these inefficiencies from your business, here are a few insights you can explore to ensure success:

• Make the most of your resources. When your teams are stuck working on manual data entry tasks, they can’t focus on propelling your business forward. BevSource successfully streamlined operations, freed up their teams, and avoided expanding their workforce to handle rising order volumes by implementing automation. As you look to automate your processes, prioritize processes with the biggest drain on your resources.

• Choose a user-friendly solution. Integrating your tech stack can be a huge drain on your teams if you choose an integration solution that requires technical resources. BevSource found that by leveraging Celigo’s user-friendly iPaaS, they didn’t need highly technical developer resources to build their integrations. By utilizing an advanced iPaaS to build your integrations, you can empower your business teams to build their own integrations–further democratizing the integration process and preventing bottlenecks. 

• Look for a scalable solution. Scalability is critical when choosing an integration solution. Some solutions, such as vendor-provided integrations, are manageable when they are utilized for simple use cases, but aren’t prepared to support complex, enterprise-wide integrations. By selecting Celigo as their iPaaS, BevSource is able to grow their business and continue to automate processes as they scale. 

If you’re ready to start automating your manual processes like BevSource, contact our team today.