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Wesupply Launch OneTime Solution to provide Low Cost Electronic Trading for all Supply Chain Participants

01 April 2005

Wesupply, a leading provider of on demand and collaborative supply chain management solutions today announced the launch of its new ‘OneTime' solution.

Over the coming months and years it is inevitable that organisations are going to have to trade electronically with their customers / trading partners. OneTime has been created to leverage a client's current IT investments by acting as a communication translator. For example, when data is fed into Wesupply by a client in one format, it's automatically translated into a format that each customer / trading partner can understand and visa-versa. In other words it takes the raw data and turns it into meaningful information for each customer / trading partner, regardless of the systems they maybe using internally. This means that supply chain ambiguity is removed and everyone has one common, real-time and unambiguous view of the supply chain.

As a hosted service OneTime provides clients with a no frills electronic trading platform that can be deployed within 30 days and requires: no software, hardware, database, integration tools, major internal project team or maintenance. "The OneTime solution means that our clients no longer have to worry about changes in communication methods with other supply chain participants - they simply connect to Wesupply once and we take care of the information flowing between a client and its customers / trading partners."

Stephen Luscombe, Global Operations Director, Wesupply

Andrew Hubbard, Product Director at Wesupply comments: "OneTime allows our clients to meet their customer's / trading partner's new electronic communication mandates by only connecting once to Wesupply, using their preferred communication method. This ‘One Connection. One Format.' solution means our clients let us manage the ‘delivery and receiving' of key information, in whatever format is required by each supply chain participant."

In a world that is constantly demanding better communication to improve the level of perfect orders, while optimising working capital and reducing supply costs, the OneTime solution can provide a foundation to achieve this by rapidly enabling an electronic trading network easily and at low cost.

Hubbard continues: "By using OneTime our clients can protect themselves against enforced communication changes from within their trading network. The OneTime solution acts as an insular layer to protect against any changes, while at the same time leveraging existing IT investments, such as EDI."

  

Chris Streete, Global Solutions Director at Wesupply adds: "Wesupply has developed this solution to ensure that all supply chain partners can benefit from electronic trading without incurring major up front or on-going costs - this new solution will also remove the need for EDI VAN charges such as mailbox setup and transaction volume fees."

By deploying OneTime clients will be able to gain significant benefit in a very short timeframe and then progress to more advanced collaboration by utilising Wesupply's Intelligent Process Agents, such as VMI and Collaborative Forecasting to drive competitive advantage in this demanding marketplace.