Stopping the stuffing being knocked out of supply chain
Published: 17 March 2008 14:35 GMT
Poultry products supplier Bernard Matthews has streamlined its trading platform, cutting costs on order processing by up to 25 per cent per year.
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The company, which specialises in turkey farming, is using a unified electronic trading platform to process electronic orders from retailers and other customers. The company complies with the EDI standard of document interchange, but as a supplier of Wal-Mart-owned ASDA, it has to use that retailer's preferred system - AS2.
The trading platform, supplied by Inovis, internally combines the two streams of orders. Previously, Bernard Matthews was forced to operate two separate systems.
According to Bernard Matthews information systems' director Edwin Pearson, up to 95 per cent of the company's business comes through the electronic trading platform and as a result of taking up the Inovis service, he expects to save up to �10,000 per year in admin costs.
Pearson told silicon.com the system, which went online last November, will cost up to �15,000 per year.
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