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Amcor is one of the World's top global packaging companies. The majority of their raw materials are delivered from suppliers by rail so management and visibility of goods in transit is an important part of their replenishment plan. Amcor had little visibility of goods in transit until they arrived at a rail depot which resulted in over compensation of stock against unexpected delays and huge amounts of capital tied up. It now has visibility of the railcar journey across the USA network, dynamic replenishment recommendations, a real-time view of inventory and a level of control that helps them manage the inventory aspect of working capital, reduce stocking levels and wastage, improved cost control and enhance business efficiency.

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Lear Corporation is under ever increasing pressure to improve efficiencies and reduce costs. It was challenged with a lack of visibility of goods within the supply chain leading to incorrect and late deliveries, high administration costs, and poor and inconsistent information for supplier performance analysis. Lear Corporation implemented Wesupply.com in three of its manufacturing facilities in Europe to integrate into its back-office ERP system. Wesupply.com provides one common view of demand and fulfilment information that all Lear's suppliers can access. It has improved on-time, accurate deliveries, reduced admin costs and information to analyse the performance of the supply chain.

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As a global company working in 76 countries with a workforce of over 80,000 people, Lafarge Roofing has a complex and growing supply chain. It faces the challenge of having to work with their many customers' preferred communication protocols through customer mandates. Lafarge Roofing is using Wesupply.com's On Demand Electronic Trading Solution to connect to three of its major merchants and roofing customers to work with their customers preferred communication protocols without the need to develop, maintain and support and internal integration/mapping solution.

Lafarge Roofing has satisfied customer mandates cost effectively through the implementation of Wesupply.com. It is now able to manage the delivery and receipt of information more effectively and is well placed to extend electronic trading to other customers quickly, easily and at low cost.

Cummins Turbo Technologies Limited is a specialist in the design and manufacture of turbochargers for medium and heavy commercial diesel engines. In support of its Six Sigma programme, aimed at cutting lead times and improving customer deliveries, Cummins Turbo Technologies implemented Wesupply.com.

Wesupply.com automatically communicates demand information daily from the existing ERP system at Cummins to suppliers via the web, translating, delivering and reporting electronic transactions. Suppliers at every point in the supply chain have real time access to Cummins' requirements so they can react more efficiently and effectively. Stripping out time, costs and inventory and improving product deliveries to customers resulted in a 22% reduction in working capital and a saving of approximately £80,000 per annum in stock losses.

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Cummins GT were facing error prone manual processes for communicating their demand and fulfilment information with suppliers and not getting the visibility and control needed to ensure planning and scheduling processes could react to customer requirements.

Wesupply.com is being used to manage forecasts, orders and to provide real-time and automatic alerts for exceptions that take place within the supply network. On-time delivery has improved by 15%, showstoppers reduced by 87% and freight costs reduced by 100%.

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Atchison Topeka has a strong customer base supplying some of the most recognisable names in the industry and needs to meet electronic trading requirements and customer mandates when they arise. Wesupply.com On Demand Electronic Trading manages the translation, delivery and reporting of electronic transactions with trading partners and customers. Atchison Topeka no longer has to worry about changes in communication methods with its trading partners and customers. Improvements in internal and external communications have improved trading relationships.

As part of Europe's largest garage door manufacturing group, Garador Limited is challenged by customer-imposed mandates to trade electronically with their customers in their preferred 'language'. Garador implemented Wesupply.com's On Demand Electronic Trading Solution to meet the communication demands of its customers. They are transferring data in a variety of formats across their trading partners in an efficient and cost effective way. Garador now has a fully scalable solution that will grow with the demands of their customer base and can meet the demands of its customers in a variety of communication methods without the extra costs and time associated with translating data into a variety of formats.

As a global company with a workforce of over 3,000 people, James Hardie has a complex and growing supply chain. It faces the challenge of having to work with their many customers' preferred communication protocols through customer mandates. James Hardie is using Wesupply.com's On Demand Electronic Trading Solution to trade electronically with its customers, using their preferred communication protocols without the  need to develop, maintain and support and internal integration/mapping solution. James Hardie has satisfied customer mandates cost effectively and is now able to manage the delivery and receipt of information more effectively, being well placed to extend electronic trading to other customers quickly, easily and at low cost.

Radnor Hills Mineral Water Company selected Wesupply.com's On Demand Electronic Trading solution to meet increased demand from customers to trade electronically. Radnor Hills are submitting invoices to, and receiving purchase orders from, major supermarkets such as Netto, Co-op, ASDA, Tesco and Morrisons. Since the beginning of 2007, Radnor Hills' customers required them to trade electronically. However, its existing EDI solution proved complex to set up and roll out in the timescales required, taking months to get just one customer up and running. With Wesupply.com Radnor Hills are able to start trading electronically with customers in less than one week.

Grange Fencing Ltd implemented Wesupply.com's On Demand Electronic Trading solution through a simple OneTimeTM connection to the Wesupply intelligent Network, insulating themselves from the various electronic standards and technologies of their customers.

Wesupply.com's On Demand Electronic Trading solution has allowed Grange Fencing Ltd to significantly streamline their trading transactions, and to reallocate resource within the sales department due to the increased efficiency brought about by the elimination of tasks such as re-keying orders, clearing up errors and receiving faxes.

Utopia Bathroom Group Limited, the specialist manufacturer of bathroom furniture has selected Wesupply.com's On Demand Electronic Trading solution to improve department efficiency and increase business process flexibility.

As their business grew, Utopia Bathroom Group Limited were receiving more and more orders and invoices, which was becoming a manual and administrative challenge on internal resources.

Wesupply.com provided an On Demand Electronic Trading solution to manage the entire process of easily exchanging electronic data between Utopia Bathroom Group Limited and its customers, in order to increase the speed of conducting business, reduce errors and administration, and intelligently analyse trends, opportunities and issues.

Alstom Transport develops and markets the most complete range of systems, equipment and service in the railway market. They are rated number 1 in the High Speed and Very High Speed train sector. With a large number of individual manufacturing plants, Alstom Transport required a clearer view across their entire internal supply chain. Planning and Execution between plants needed to be better synchronized in order to reduce time to market and enhance internal flexibility. Wesupply.com has provided Alstom Transport with increased visibility and control through internal collaboration across more than twenty manufacturing sites worldwide, integrating the plants through the complete build and supply planning process and the management of fulfilment execution across the entire organisation. This has resulted in improved information flow between the manufacturing sites and enhanced Inter-sites service levels due to greater control over their supply chain.

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Bristan Group Ltd, one of the largest bathroom supply companies in the UK joined the Wesupply intelligent Network 2005 in order to trade electronically with a key customer. By connecting to the network, they were able to communicate more effectively with the UK's leading Plumbers Merchant by improving visibility of supply chain information and reducing errors which were prevalent with their existing system. Alongside the Wesupply.com connection, Bristan Group Ltd was experiencing problems with their existing supply chain system which they were using for all their remaining customer-side EDI. It was slow and unreliable, and there was a distinct lack of system support. Wesupply.com's On Demand Electronic Trading solution now provides Bristan Group Ltd with a OneTimeTM connection to its network to deliver a low risk, easy to join and mature outsourced solution, allowing quick deployment of a more efficient and cost-effective electronic trading process across their customer base. Bristan Group Ltd has rolled out Wesupply.com's On Demand Electronic Trading solution to all of their major customers, and they are now exchanging various documents easily and efficiently via a Fax-to-Email Connector.

Jewson, part of the Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Group has embarked on an intelligent trading initiative with Wesupply.com which will move Jewson and its suppliers into a seamless trading process improving stock management and forecasting of demand for both parties.

Jewson's internal efforts towards supply chain improvements were delivering limited results. They aspired for a platform which would deliver greater visibility, improve demand efficiency, remove manual inefficiencies and widen demand chain controls across the supply chain.

The Wesupply.com On Demand Electronic Trading solution provides visibility into supply chain activity by connecting suppliers and branches to its Network through a OneTime^TM connection, delivering a common operating platform across all suppliers and branches.

Wesupply.com enables Jewson to transmit orders electronically to its suppliers. Suppliers communicate automatically back with Acknowledgements, ASN's and Invoices. Benefits will not only be administrative savings, it also provides intelligent supplier lead-time management and detailed supply chain performance analysis including accurate On Time & In Full performance measurements across the entire branch and supplier network.

Graham, a leading plumbing, heating and sanitaryware merchant within the UK was challenged with a lack of branch visibility on the fulfilment of orders from suppliers. The lack of visibility and information sharing resulted in Graham having no accurate supplier delivery performance information, only the information sourced from suppliers, resulting in a dis-jointed, manual and costly process. Graham implemented Wesupply.com's On Demand Electronic Trading solution to electronically connect its 250 branches and 130 suppliers. Branch and supplier visibility has significantly improved due to transactions taking place across the Wesupply.com network. The Wesupply.com solution enables Graham to manage its supply network and analyse supplier performance, due to accurate supplier performance visibility across Graham and its suppliers.

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