C&d Foods Consolidate Edi With Wesupply’s Fully Managed Service

COVENTRY, 13th September 2011 – Wesupply™, a leading provider of outsourced business-to-business integration services, today announced that one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of pet food products, C&D Foods, has signed an agreement for Wesupply’s fully managed EDI solution, OneTime™.

Although experienced in using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to automate communications with customers, C&D Foods had outgrown its existing EDI capabilities and wished to consolidate electronic trading on one platform, while also integrating EDI with their ERP system.

“By outsourcing our electronic trading to Wesupply we have been able to consolidate our EDI onto one platform, cut our VAN charges, and at the same time continue to fulfil our customers EDI requirements”, says Rosalyn Donnelly, IT Manager at C&D Foods. “We chose to outsource to Wesupply as they had previous experience of integrating with our ERP system, which was an important element of the project. The company also had some great customer references and a fixed price commercial model which suited our business”.

By choosing Wesupply, C&D Foods will benefit from full electronic trading with its customers, reduced overheads and a lower total cost of ownership for the future.

“C&D Foods has a clear understanding of the benefits that come from centralising its electronic trading and we are delighted to be working with them to achieve this” says Matt Wilcock, Sales Executive at Wesupply. “The company has recognised that there are significant gains from outsourcing EDI; freeing up internal IT resources, reducing overheads and having a fixed price solution for a given period.”

C&D Foods join a growing number of CPG suppliers who are using Wesupply to trade electronically with their customers, including G&J Greenall, Produce World, Capespan and Fine Lady Bakeries. Leading retailers including Sainsbury’s, Screwfix and Poundland, also effectively manage their supply chains using Wesupply’s intelligent EDI solution to trade with their suppliers.

About Wesupply
Wesupply provides a fully managed and outsourced electronic business-to-business integration service, using a unique approach that maximises supply chain collaboration between independent organisations. This approach has consistently helped our customers secure tangible operational cost savings along with improved customer service, since the business was founded in 1999. Companies across all industries, including Retail, CPG, Energy and Manufacturing rely on Wesupply to manage business-critical information flows for their extended supply chain processes.

About C&D Foods
Producing high quality pet food products since the late 1960’s has earned C&D Foods its place as one of Europe’s leading manufacturers in its field. From our base in Ireland we manufacture a complete range of single-serve products in Pouch and Alu-tray. Our UK facility provides an extensive range of Dry Foods for all pets including small animals and fishfood, whilst our Dutch facility can cater to a wide range of canned products and pack sizes.

The Philosophy of C&D Foods is to create a product offering that meets every customer’s requirements. To deliver on this promise requires commitment to investment in Plant and Research & Development. That is why we have our own dedicated Nutrition and Research Centre and our factories are amongst the most efficient in Europe.