Leading online home furnishings site HomePoint.com Thursday borrowed PeopleSoft’s enterprise software to
power its back-office system.
The software will be implemented across the HomePoint.com organization to
support a range of business functions, including order management and
fulfillment, inventory control, general ledger, accounts payable, accounts
receivable and customer service.
This new system will be fully integrated with the overall HomePoint.com Web
site to create one e-business solution. The PeopleSoft (PSFT)
system is also designed with the flexibility to support all future business
initiatives.
“We selected PeopleSoft for a number of reasons,” said Barbara
Jessen-White, chief information officer for HomePoint.com. “Its
applications meet our range of requirements in terms of both functionality
and flexibility. It has a straightforwardand easy-to-use, intuitive
interface. And we were confident in PeopleSoft’s ability to
implement a robust system in an aggressive timeframe that would keep pace
with our own
rapid growth as a company.”
PeopleSoft provides e-business and analytic applications for human resource
management, financials, distribution, manufacturing and supply chain.