Produce World consolidates legacy EDI systems through Wesupply
COVENTRY, 27th September 2011: Produce World Limited, a leading fresh produce supplier to the retail and foodservice industries, has selected Wesupply’s OneTime® EDI solution to deliver a fully-managed electronic trading service for the real-time exchange of critical business documents with its customers.
Produce World had outgrown its existing EDI capabilities and wished to consolidate electronic trading across most of the companies within the group – Produce World Solanum Ltd, Produce World IFP Ltd, Produce World RBO Ltd, Produce World Rustler Ltd and Produce World Marshall Ltd. Three separate EDI systems had been in use across the group requiring Value Added Networks (VANs) supplied by several third party providers.
By choosing to merge electronic trading across the group’s various businesses through the Wesupply platform, Produce World will benefit from full electronic trading with its customers, reduced overheads for local support and a lower total cost of ownership for the future.
“Outsourcing to Wesupply has enabled us to consolidate our EDI requirements into one highly stable platform that delivers the 24/7 service reliability that is so essential for our business and our customers,” says Simon Callow, Head of IT.
“Produce World has a clear understanding of the benefits that come from centralising its electronic trading and we are delighted to be working with them to achieve this” says Andy Watts, Sales Manager at Wesupply. “The company has recognised that there are significant gains from outsourcing EDI to a SaaS provider, such as Wesupply; freeing up internal IT resources, reducing overheads and third party VAN costs, and having a fixed price solution for a given period.”
The Wesupply platform will give Produce World a single view of message traffic across all the businesses in the group and will provide a service where each message is analysed for data integrity and compliance, removing risk to the business from poor data input quality.
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 Produce World
Produce World is one of the largest expert growers and suppliers of high quality fresh vegetables in Europe. It is a privately owned business, founded by the Burgess family in 1898, and much of the family ethos and values remain in place. The Produce World business is customer and category focused and it is an industry leader in sustainable and responsible agronomy, growing and lean supply chain management. Its sourcing is a combination of produce from its own farms , joint-ventures, and collaborative working with dedicated grower groups, supplying a variety of root vegetables, potatoes, brassicas, alliums, and organic produce to leading retailers, food service and manufacturing customers.
Produce World Group companies include Produce World Solanum Ltd, Produce World IFP Ltd, Produce World RBO Ltd, Produce World Rustler Ltd, Produce World Marshalls Ltd, Agromark SA, Briess Produce Ltd, and Growing Trust with Las Lomas (joint venture).
The company received the Waitrose Technical Excellence Award in June 2011, as well as the re:fresh Innovation of the Year and Packer of the Year awards in May 2011. Its Growing Trust CSR programme, established in 2007, prioritises Responsible Sourcing, along with Environmental Stewardship, Community Impact and Workplace Culture.
