Henderson Group Selects Atlas Fusion to Complete Its Electronic Trading Portfolio

The Henderson Group, owners of the SPAR, EUROSPAR, ViVO, ViVOXtra and ViVO Essentials franchises in Northern Ireland, has signed a multi-year agreement to use the award-winning Atlas Fusion supply chain portal.

The Group has been distributing food and grocery-related products to the convenience retail sector for over 100 years and is now the largest operator of its kind in the country, supplying over 400 stores.

Atlas Fusion will complement and complete the Henderson Group’s existing electronic trading environment, helping to deal with more than 300,000 invoices submitted by suppliers each year. Atlas has worked in conjunction with Paul Kelly of Kelly Solutions to secure this new customer win.

Atlas Fusion’s sophisticated, cloud-based functionality delivers cost savings and minimises carbon footprint by automating labour intensive tasks and removing the potential for human error. A clearing house for orders and invoices, Atlas Fusion enables trading partners to deal with problems such as invoice mismatches in a collaborative space on the web, accessible to buyer and supplier alike.

Henderson Group Finance Manager Jack Regan said: “We recognised the need for a supply chain portal to complete our electronic trading environment and once we had made that decision we knew that we wanted to work with Atlas to help us to design and implement the solution. We have been very impressed by their approach and the quality of their technology and we look forward to working together to achieve the projected cost and efficiency benefits.”

Atlas Vice President, Group Sales, Michael Latimer said: “The Henderson Group is a highly successful and respected business that retains close links with its communities in Northern Ireland. We are delighted that they have chosen Atlas as their partner and recognised us as the market leader in cloud-based portal solutions for ebusiness and eInvoicing. This contract win further increases our footprint with the SPAR brand – where we already work with SPAR major operators in Ireland and the United Kingdom.”