Archive for the ‘Industry Insights’ Category
May 4th, 2012
I’ve always enjoyed photography. Not so long ago, my camera used 35mm film. When I’d taken 36 photographs, I would take the film to Boots and pay for every photograph to be developed and printed. When I collected the prints the next day I was often disappointed to discover that I had paid good money to print photographs that were out-of-focus, too dark, too bright or just badly framed.
Today, like most people, I use a digital camera. Photographs are stored on a standard memory card. I can view these photographs on the camera’s LCD display and delete any that are not up to scratch. My camera has a standard wireless interface, so I can quickly and easily upload pictures to my Facebook account, my digital photo frame or send them to my printer. I can remove the memory card, insert into my Mac and use any one of a number of software applications to edit and catalogue my pictures.
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April 20th, 2012
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be showcasing our fully managed EDI service, OneTime®, at the forthcoming GS1UK Annual Conference and Exhibition to be held at Leicester City Football Club on the 26th April.
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March 26th, 2012
The UK’s leading fresh produce companies are turning to OneTime®, Wesupply’s fully managed EDI service, to help them meet UK food retailers’ and supermarkets’ growing electronic trading stipulations.
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February 2nd, 2012
Many small businesses see EDI as an “unnecessary evil”. They don’t always understand EDI and they have other priorities: building a brand, growing the product range or selling to new territories. Besides, they are usually happy receiving orders by fax or email. So is EDI evil, necessary or otherwise?
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January 10th, 2012
In today’s difficult economic climate where all companies are under pressure to reduce costs and improve efficiencies, organisations can benefit significantly by moving away from a transaction based pricing model. Whether you have an existing solution or you are embarking upon EDI for the first time the opportunity for significant cost savings should not be overlooked.
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November 21st, 2011
Many major businesses in the retail, manufacturing and building sectors are moving their electronic trading to next generation EDI services hosted in the cloud. Taking an outsourced managed service approach has been seen by a growing number of leading companies as the best way of freeing up internal IT resources, dealing with issues of compliance and facilitating the fast on-boarding of new trading partners. The ‘managed cloud’ is the right place to be for next generation EDI.
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October 10th, 2011
An increasing number of retailers are expanding their e-invoicing programs to a wider supplier base, which is not surprising given the benefits available.
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August 12th, 2011
Recent studies by the Aberdeen Group have found that B2B supply chain collaboration and integration initiatives benefit both the company implementing them and their trading partners. The fact that trading partners also benefit from increased collaboration is key, as it assists companies in obtaining their partners commitment to the initiatives.
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July 22nd, 2011
Local sourcing has once again been in the news, with Asda announcing that they have sold locally sourced produce worth £1bn over the past decade. This follows Tesco’s announcement that they had reached the same £1bn landmark earlier this year. Despite the popularity and growth of local sourcing it does present supply chain challenges for [...]
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March 18th, 2011
Grocery retailers are expanding their EDI capabilities by tapping into the next generation of web based technologies. At the same time, they are introducing new EDI requirements for their suppliers. What issues do suppliers have to address in order to comply? How may they take advantage, themselves, of the next generation of EDI technology?
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