Ideal Stelrad Joins Wesupply’s ‘intelligent’ B2b Platform

COVENTRY, 15th April 2011 – Ideal Stelrad has selected Wesupply’s OneTime™ EDI solution to deliver a fully-managed electronic trading service for the exchange of orders, invoices, acknowledgements and advanced shipment notices (ASNs).

“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 retain the focus on our aggressive E-Commerce programme. The OneTime solution enables Ideal Stelrad and our customers to share a common view of the full purchase order-to-invoice cycle, giving us real-time exchange of critical business documents, improved visibility and increased invoice-matching rates – thus driving up our overall supply chain performance,” says John Glanville, IT Director at Ideal Stelrad.

“Ideal Stelrad has a clear understanding of its B2B vision and we are delighted to be working with them to achieve this” says Jerry Quinn, Sales Director at Wesupply. “There is a growing recognition in the building sector of the value to be realised through the implementation of collaborative, network-based solutions.”

Ideal Stelrad will be using the Wesupply platform to automate the exchange of orders, invoices and advanced shipment notices with its customers. As the OneTime solution is delivered as a fully managed service, Ideal Stelrad is free from the risks and burden associated with technical issues and maintenance costs.

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 Ideal Stelrad
Ideal Stelrad Group is a Pan-European business involved in the manufacture of Heat Generators and Heat Emitters for both domestic and commercial applications. Company turnover is in excess of £400m, and the group employs 1900 people.

Manufacturing locations are based in the UK, Turkey, Romania, Belgium and the Netherlands. The Group does not supply products direct to end users, but has established in many countries across Europe a network of distributors including global leaders such as Wolseley plc, St Gobain, and in the UK the BSS Group. The Group products are very well specified across a broad range of Architects, Consultants and major house builders.

The heat emitter brand “STELRAD”, enjoys a market leading position in the UK and across Europe, whilst the “IDEAL” generator brand is the leading supplier in the UK within the Commercial and Industrial sectors.

The Group has well advanced plans to diversify its activities into new renewable technologies, as a source of heat generation, and is well positioned to take full advantage of future growth opportunities in this important growth sector.