TrueCommerce has a long standing presence in the building and construction sector, with many of the leading building merchants, DIY retailers and building suppliers choosing TrueCommerce as their digital commerce provider.
Below are just a few examples of how our digital commerce platform has benefitted some of our customers from the building sector. If you require more detailed information read some of our customer case studies.
“During the project lifecycle the TrueCommerce team assisted us with a deep integration with our internal systems so that we could go live within budget and without delay.”
Jim Pears
Ecommerce Systems Manager
Aperture Group
“TrueCommercehave made it easy for us to trade electronically with our customers. They take care of all the transactions and seamlessly on-board new customers without tying up internal resources, allowing my team to re-focus on their core role.”
Richard Evans
Head of IT & Customer Contact
Bristan
Chubb is a leading provider of security and Fire Safety solutions for businesses and industry nationwide. The TrueCommerce B2B ecommerce portal in operation enables Chubb to sell products to its own corporate profile client at agreed contracted prices. The portal integrates with SAP.
“Subscribing to TrueCommerce’s fully managed service has enabled us to increase the volume of orders processed by approximately 50%, and undoubtedly reduce the number of man hours required for order entry.”
Emma Hannam
Commercial Manager
Garador
“The solution has provided Supply Chain visibility, which has helped us in increasing service performance from our supplier base, using business reports such as delivery and OTIF performance.”
Tariq Ali
Supplier Development Manager
Graham Group
“TrueCommerce’s fully managed approach has allowed us to adopt EDI but not suffer the traditionally burdensome aspects of the technology, such as trading partner configuration and expensive IT overheads and knowledge.”
Dave Oliver
IT Manager
Grant & Stone
The first and one of the largest and most successful JCB dealers in the World. Gunn JCB sell JCBs. parts and accessories. Comprehensive online catalogue of JCB vehicles and their associated spare parts is a characteristic of this project together with SAP integration
“Our existing solution lacked flexibility to meet the changing requirements of our customers and it could not easily support non standard requirements and new technologies. The OneTime solution has enabled us to react quickly and efficiently to our customers requirements, without tying up our IT team.”
Trevor Austin
IT Director
Hozelock
“It’s a revelation for us. The repetitive and time consuming daily effort has been replaced by an automated system with management tools that allow us to keep an eye on what’s going on.”
Elfed Hughes
Director
Huws Gray
“We knew what we wanted but found that we couldn’t do it ourselves. We needed a seamless system of electronically placing orders, and then seeing when they were delivered. At the same time, we wanted to track how well our suppliers were meeting their delivery promises.”
Stephen Bacon
Supply Chain Director
Jewson
“We decided to move all of our EDI capability on to one platform, as we wanted an outsourced solution with a proven track record of connecting with our customers. TrueCommerce’s managed service came highly recommended to us and their competitive, fixed annual price sealed the deal.”
Martin Bentley
Director of IT & Communications
John Guest Ltd
Founded in 1873 and supplying safety products to some of the World's largest companies - Liscombe are a highly respected personal protective clothing manufacturer... Consisting of sophisticated B2B ecommerce trade ordering portal with full e-procurement controls and personalisation for major clients this TrueCommerce system also integrates comprehensively with SAP.
“I was surprised to learn that not only could TrueCommerce deliver a fully managed and hosted solution, which would mean no more on premise software or hardware compatibility issues, but the annual cost was a fraction of what we’d been paying.”
Simon Johnson
IT Manager
Marcrist International
“The service we received from our previous EDI provider was nonexistent. Having received many glowing reviews from other companies in our sector, we decided to make the switch to TrueCommerce’s fully managed service.”
Stuart Elsom
Managing Director
Rollins & Sons Ltd
The National Lighting Company is a £100M+ distributor of light fittings. TrueCommerce has been implemented across a major companies within the group called Saxby Lighting and Endon Lighting to manage B2B operations. Deep integration of the B2B system and Customer Self-Service are key characteristics of this project.
“The TrueCommerce solution will enable Screwfix and its suppliers to have a common view of the full purchase order to invoice cycle. Visibility across multiple suppliers will help Screwfix to improve product availability, reduce excess inventory and improve invoice-matching rates.”
Scott Parsons
Head of Supply Chain
Screwfix
“We regard TrueCommerce as an extension of our own team. There is no doubt that outsourcing to TrueCommerce has been cost effective.”
Bev Cross
ABC Spax
“The transition was smooth thanks to the thorough testing process supported by TrueCommerce. Over 1,000 customers and suppliers were moved seamlessly on to the TrueCommerce platform.”
Mark Elvy
IT Development Manager
Travis Perkins plc
“Our experience in working with TrueCommerce was very positive and we knew it was an established EDI solution with excellent credentials and a firm foothold in the Building sector.”
Chris Mallabone
IT Applications Manager
Wavin
