Celebrating 30 years of proudly serving musicians, collectors, and friends, Chicago Music Exchange runs one of the largest e-commerce and storefront music gear shops in the Midwest. With a line around the block every morning before the store opens, Chicago Music Exchange is known for it’s museum-like storefront and first-class customer service experience. Whether you come for your first guitar or join the Chicago Drum Exchange, Chicago Music Exchange strives to provide excellence in equipment and expert service that helps musicians deliver their own unique sound.
Dedicated to a fine-tuned experience
To work at the Chicago Music Exchange, they have one simple rule: you must love music. Full of both talent and passion from the executives to the warehouse, the skilled team at Chicago Music Exchange has a keen eye for tuning and a love for their craft. Before each instrument is shipped out from the warehouse, a crew member performs a thorough quality check and tune-up before packing and shipping. It’s that specific level of customer service that they try to deliver both in the storefront and online.
Before Pacejet, Chicago Music Exchange had a few homegrown processes and a mix of supply chain tools that didn’t communicate efficiently. Every time they hired a new crew member it would take them over 2 months to get acclimated to the processes and to learn all the SKUs for the items, before also needing to figure out where they were all placed within the warehouse. They needed a solution that could help automate parts of their process to slim down the time spent onboarding, while also helping them grow as they worked to continually scale their operations.
Our sound solution
Searching for a better solution, Brian Robertson, Shipping Manager of Chicago Music Exchange, went straight to NetSuite, in search of a trusted and tested solution. Pacejet was an easy choice for the Chicago Music Exchange team. Pacejet provides a native integration to NetSuite with connections to
RF-SMART and their e-commerce provider to bring together a fully connected solution to help them automate and save time on their shipping line.
With Pacejet helping to streamline their operations, Chicago Music Exchange is able to pull together their warehouse processes, reduce manual entry steps, and increase efficiency. In 2019 alone they were able to decrease the number of mis-ships by 82.5%, giving their customers more confidence to keep rocking on.
The outcome
Chicago Music Exchange chose Pacejet Built for NetSuite because its an accomplished and trusted partner for supply chain operations in the NetSuite community that provides built-in rate shopping, offers increased automation for fewer errors, and helps them solve their onboarding woes.
Annually shipping out 120,000+ shipments can be challenging for a shipping manager but with a trusted, vetted solution, like Pacejet, a shipment can take less than 20 minutes to get out the door and with saving around 68K, scaling is so much easier.
