Marla Tube Fittings benefits from Wesupply’s scalable EDI offering
COVENTRY, 28th June 2011: Wesupply™, a leading provider of outsourced business-to-business integration services, today announced that tube and pipeline specialist, Marla Tube Fittings, has signed an agreement for Wesupply’s fully managed EDI solution, OneTime™.
Marla Tube Fittings will be using the Wesupply platform to automate the exchange of orders and invoices with one of its key customers. Wesupply’s OneTime solution will provide Marla Tube Fittings with a simple replacement to their incumbent solution, which has been decommissioned by their customer.
By choosing to outsource their EDI requirements to Wesupply, Marla Tube Fittings is able to continue using their preferred communication method, while still meeting their customer’s electronic trading requirements. OneTime will connect directly with the customer and translate Marla Tube Fittings’ messages into the required format, all without the requirement of a costly VAN mailbox.
“Outsourcing our EDI to Wesupply will enable us to continue fulfilling our customer’s EDI requirements without any disruption to us or our customer”, says Paul Rodgers, IT Analyst at Marla Tube Fittings.
“We are delighted to be able to assist Marla Tube Fittings to meet their customer’s electronic trading mandate. As OneTime is a fully scalable solution, with an established customer on-boarding program, we look forward to assisting Marla Tube Fittings with any additional customer EDI requirements they receive in the future”, says Andrew Ziff, B2B Consultant at Wesupply.
Wesupply is widely regarded as a leading provider of electronic trading solutions to the Building Distribution sector. Many of the UK’s leading merchants, including SGBD UK, Grafton Merchanting GB and Screwfix, effectively manage their supply chains using Wesupply’s intelligent B2B EDI solution to trade with their suppliers. Leading building distribution suppliers who are using Wesupply to trade electronically with their customers include Vaillant, Bristan Group, Pegler Yorkshire, Garador and Calor Gas.
About Wesupply
Wesupply provides a fully managed and outsourced electronic business-to-business integration service, using a unique approach that maximises supply chain collaboration between independent organisations. This approach has consistently helped our customers secure tangible operational cost savings along with improved customer service, since the business was founded in 1999. Companies across all industries, including Retail, CPG, Energy and Manufacturing rely on Wesupply to manage business-critical information flows for their extended supply chain processes.
About Marla Tube Fittings Ltd
Marla Tube Fittings are a leading UK based tube and pipeline specialist selling their product through distribution into different market sectors including Oil and Gas and Heating and Ventilation. Their stock range amongst others includes EN1092/BS10/ASA/A350LF2/316L FLANGES and EN10253/WPB/A420WPL6/BS3799 FITTINGS.
