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Getting the right connections

14 March 2006

Calor Gas is the latest in a high profile portfolio of companies to sign up to Wesupply.com's OneTime supply chain solution allowing it to meet electronic trading mandates from its customers without the need to develop, maintain and support an internal integration/mapping solution.

Wesupply.com One Time takes care of the translation, delivery and reporting of electronic transactions with Calor Gas' trading partners and customers. It takes the raw data from Calor Gas' supplier and translates it into a meaningful format regardless of the system the supplier may be using.

Wesupply.com say that Supply Chain ambiguities are quickly removed and everyone, both supplier and customer, has one common, real-time and unambiguous view of the supply chain. The hosted service is quick to install and requires no hardware, software, database, integration tools or major internal project teams or maintenance. And what is more payback is pretty much immediate with a low risk factor.

"The OneTime solution means that clients like Calor Gas no longer have to worry about changes in communication methods with other supply chain participants - they simply connect to Wesupply.com once and we take care of the information flowing between a client and its customers and suppliers", says Stephen Luscombe, Customer and Technical Services Director at Wesupply.com. "Real-time supply chain data can vastly improve internal and external communications and processes which is also good for customer relationships. If you're trading electronically the next stage is to trade collaboratively - OneTime is the first definitive step along the journey"

Wesupply.com already has attracted a number of high profile customers to OneTime since the revolutionary facility was introduced last year with connections into companies like Wolseley, BSS, B&Q, Tesco and Travis Perkins.

Many organisations say that when it comes to persuading suppliers to connect to a new supply chain system getting the systems to work is easy - it's persuading the suppliers to agree and buy in to one way of working that's the difficult part. With OneTime such problems don't exist. Customers get the mandate they require and suppliers leverage their existing investment in IT without further software or hardware expenditure.

Over the last year many organisations from the building trade to electronics, from perishable foods to white goods have been mandated to trade electronically with their trading partners and customers. This trend will continue as end user pressure intensifies and competition increases. Supply on demand, real-time supply chain management, offers high rewards for those companies that get it right - the right connection with OneTime means a scalable and configurable product that will grow with the company - into a fully collaborative solution.

If a supplier has multiple customers demanding multiple communication methods which are costly and inefficient then the Wesupply.com OneTime solution could be the answer.

It's obvious that no one can get everything right first time but suppliers can now confront a customer trading mandate with a simple and universal interface.

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