Hozelock: EDI Case Study

Fully managed, outsourced solution delivers improved quality of service to customers

Picture this… youโre a Birmingham based garden equipment manufacturer with a reputation for innovation, quality and good value.

But, although youโve earned a reputation for innovation your electronic toolset is slowing you down. Up to now, youโve been using an on-preimse EDI solution from a third party but it is inflexible and is impeding your business. Youโre a thriving company but each new customerโs EDI requirements are bringing new challenges and an ever present need for in-house EDI configuration, the extra workload is drowning your IT teams.

So, you turn to TrueCommerce. Our experience in the industry makes the transition from on premise to outsourced EDI simple. Thereโs no need for onsite software or hardware and our EDI experts make it easy to transact EDI messages to all your customers, regardless of their technical requirements. With seamless ERP integration youโre now sending messages from your business system straight to your customers, without investing time or resources into manually keying data into your system or supporting your EDI infrastructure.
Now, youโre facilitating 70% of your turnover through TrueCommerce with the aim of extending EDI to all your customers. Through our teams of experts you can quickly respond to EDI requests and improve your customer service. Now that your workforceโs time is directed away from EDI and into other areas of the business you can concentrate on expanding your operation without worrying about how youโre going t o manage a growing customer base. Youโve improved your service whilst reducing the amount of IT expense required to do business with your customers.
โOur existing solution lacked flexibility to meet the changing requirements of our customers and it could not easily support non standard requirements and new technologies. As a result, the lead time for adapting to new requirements or onboarding a new customer was lengthy.โ
Trevor Austin, IT Director at Hozelock
