Thomas Armstrong consolidates EDI systems through Wesupply
COVENTRY, 6th September 2011: Thomas Armstrong (Holdings) Ltd., one of the UK’s largest privately owned manufacturers of building products and suppliers of building services, has selected Wesupply to deliver a fully-managed electronic trading service for the real-time exchange of critical business documents with its customers.
Thomas Armstrong were already using Wesupply to trade electronically with a key customer – a leading builder’s merchant, when they experienced service issues with their incumbent EDI provider, while at the same time receiving an additional EDI mandate. The decision was subsequently made to consolidate all their EDI operations onto the Wesupply platform.
“We decided to move all of our EDI capability on to one platform, as we wanted one point of contact for all EDI issues” says Paul Armstrong, Financial Director at Thomas Armstrong. “We chose Wesupply’s OneTime solution, as we’d had a good experience of working with Wesupply in the past and most importantly they have a proven track record of connecting with our customers”.
The company will be using the Wesupply platform to automate the exchange of orders, invoices and acknowledgements with five of their customers.
“Thomas Armstrong recognises the benefits that can be achieved by centralising electronic trading and we are delighted to be able to assist” says Jerry Quinn, Sales Director at Wesupply. “By moving to Wesupply’s fully managed, outsourced solution, the complexities of electronic trading are no longer Thomas Armstrong’s concern, enabling the company to focus on the core objectives of their business”.
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 Thomas Armstrong
The business was founded by Thomas Armstrong in Cockermouth in 1830 and consisted of saw mills and joinery works. Today, our operations extend across a region from Glasgow to Cheshire, from the East coast to the West coast. We have become one of the UK’s largest privately owned manufacturers of building products and suppliers of building services.
Our ever-growing portfolio includes aggregates, bespoke joinery, concrete blocks, construction, paving blocks, plumbing & heating, precast concrete, timber, transport and workwear & tool hire.
We can design the building, manufacture the building materials, deliver them to site, construct the building and maintain it during its life.
