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SUPPLYCHAINNEWS
X DSV, the
LEATHAMS JOINS
transport and
EDI REVOLUTION EDI BENEFITS
logistics provider
for major High
FISHY BUSINESS
Street retailers
in the UK and
Ireland – including
Primark
– has improved
F
arne Salmon and Trout, one of manager. “Perhaps most importantly,
Scotland’s leading � sh producers however, the Inovis pricing structure
its warehouse
productivity by
and suppliers, has joined the works on a � at-rate tariff instead of
15% and product
Inovisworks Value Added Network on the amount of data exchanged,
pick accuracy
(VAN). so not only are we providing our
by 300%. These
The supplier has also implemented customers with better service, but
performance
Specialist food supplier, Leathams the Inovis TrustedLink System i we are also better managing our
increases its
replacement of
has become the latest retail solution for a 50% reduction in EDI costs by keeping them low and
a fully manual
supplier to sign up for the electronic data interchange (EDI) predictable.”
operation with
innovative electronic data related costs per year, in addition to As TrustedLink System i can
a Vocollect
interchange (EDI) service from the ability to transact orders with connect with back-of� ce applications,
voice-enabled
software-as-a-service (SaaS) suppliers regardless of data format. It Farne Salmon and Trout is able to
warehouse
management
electronic trading provider, First has also reduced time spent managing download orders from its customers
solution, VocalPoint
B2B. the overall EDI environment, so the IT directly into its enterprise resource
at the company’s
Leathams is a provider of team can focus on other strategic tasks planning (ERP) system, reducing the
200,000ft
high-quality food products under that add value to the business. risk of errors often caused during
distribution centre
the Merchant Gourmet and “With our implementation of the manual transfer of data into this
in Naas, Ireland
– one of its largest
other brands including some own Inovisworks and TrustedLink System programme. The software is built on a
in Europe.
label products. The � rm uses EDI i, we have a modern, stable EDI simple-to-use graphical user interface
to trade with a wide range of platform that is easy to manage. We (GUI) interface, meaning that Farne
suppliers and retail outlets. are able to ensure that orders from Salmon and Trout IT staff can provide
Previously utilising an EDI our customers arrive in a timely and non-technical users with access to the
solution from Freeway Commerce, immediately actionable format, which entire EDI environment, improving the
the ease of use of First B2B proved is key as we are deal with fresh goods organisation’s ability to react in real-
a major attraction. Leathams every day,” said Jacques Jean-Paul, time to changes in the supply chain
� nancial director, Douglas Dunbar Farne Salmon and Trout IT project process.
said: “The First B2B solution doesn’t
require any additional hardware or
software at our sites or at those
DAVIES TURNER
of our trading partners. Additional
partners can be included at no cost
BOOSTS
extra to contract and is incredibly
simple to achieve with the First PRODUCTIVITY
B2B mapping technology. It’s early
Davies Turner, the independent UK
days for us yet but the First B2B
freight and international logistics
offering looks just what we need.”
operator has boosted productivity
First B2B chairman, Richard
by 20% following the implementation
X O2 has slashed
Ward added: “EDI used to be a
the time taken to
of warehouse management software
major headache for companies but
deal with handset
(WMS) supplied by RedPrairie
repairs from 25
the advent of SaaS EDI solutions
Corporation. minutes to just 10
means that businesses can focus
The company has, with RedPrairie’s WMS, billing software and its
by incorporating
on their core business knowing
integrator product, an enterprise application integration (EAI) tool that
a new mobile
that the EDI solution will operate
phone repair
enables it to integrate with multiple host systems, supporting multiple
without needing their intervention.
system into its
contracts with customers for sales, invoices and reports.
Torex point-of-sale
We are seeing a large number of
Andrew Slater, Davies Turner head of logistics said: “We needed a (PoS) system. The
companies coming forward who
con� gurable system them would give us more � exibility. We selected the
integration gives
recognise that real transactions
RedPrairie solution because it was user-friendly, and it enables us to take on
O2 store staff
savings can be made without the IT
complete visibility
new clients at short notice. We can now get a new customer onto the system
investments which were previously
of the repair
in a day. The upgrade functionality within the system is also important, as it
process, improving
involved in EDI.”
makes our business future-proof.” the customer
experience.
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