Success Story:
Celebrating Home
The Situation
Celebrating Home offers an income opportunity for women across the nation. It helps them realize their dreams by bringing families together with home-related decorating and entertaining products affordable to all.
It was established in early 2009 as a result of Home & Garden Party's acquisition of Home Interiors in December 2008. The two home-decor companies had to quickly merge employees, processes, systems, product catalogs and supply chains. The goal -- business continuing with as little interruption as possible.
The Solution
The Farr Systems team collaborated with the client's executive team and board to achieve their two-phased business goal:
- take orders and ship products in 18 days
- completely merge the companies in 60 days
Farr Systems merged the supply chains by combining the processes and inventories at two locations so products could ship with little delay. Farr Systems was also responsible for all information technology activities that drove the two companies' successful transformation into Celebrating Home.
Among other responsibilities, the team:
- located vendors
- led contract negotiations
- managed the technology assessments and infrastructure, as well as software implementations.
Farr Systems continues its support for Celebrating Home by providing a C-suite-experienced professional to serve as its on-site CIO.
The Result
The two companies emerged, re-branded, as Celebrating Home in March 2009. Every aspect of the company was new, from its logo and products to its business processes and systems.
The Farr team partnered with the Celebrating Home management team to get the company up and running in 18 days. They converted the two companies' systems into one new system in 60 days. Now on a growth trend, Celebrating Home is a better, stronger business. It's also the talk of the direct-selling industry.
What Celebrating Home says:
"Partnering with the Farr Systems team is one of the main reasons Celebrating Home exists today as a better, stronger business and is the talk of the direct sales industry," said Heather Chastain, chief executive officer for Celebrating Home. "The team used its deep experience and proven methodologies to recommend and implement the best solutions so we could meet our Celebrating Home launch date. These solutions continue to support our growth."
