Travis Perkins selects Wesupply to deliver strategic requirements for electronic trading

COVENTRY, 4th June 2014: Travis Perkins PLC, a leading supplier to the building and construction market – one of the largest industries in the UK, has chosen Wesupply to provide their electronic trading solution to service their trading partners.

Although experienced in providing a comprehensive suite of electronic trading options, Travis Perkins (TP) realised that the willingness to serve had resulted in an electronic trading offering that was both complex, and expensive to maintain. The diverse range of technical standards, data formats, communication and security protocols that have to be supported, convinced TP that this requirement could best be sourced from a specialist 3rd party EDI service provider.

TP recognised that to maintain and improve their electronic trading offering they needed to streamline and enhance the solution they provided to their customers, and suppliers. TP formed a Project Team (“DigitalTrade”), which was specifically tasked to select a flexible, next generation EDI solution for their existing trading partners, as well as ensuring that TP could continue to maintain its market leading supply position in an ever more competitive market.

The DigitalTrade project were looking for a partner who could demonstrate innovation, a good fit culturally with TP, and demonstrate sector knowledge with successful other customer implementations of similar sized projects.

Having selected Wesupply in May 2014 the project is already well underway with both parties aiming to on-board the first trading partners in September with the objective to roll out the new platform and service to the full trading community in the following months.

About Wesupply
Wesupply Limited 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 clients secure tangible operational cost savings along with improved customer service, since the business was founded in 1999. Companies across all industries, including Retail, Building, CPG, Energy and Manufacturing rely on Wesupply to manage business-critical information flows for their extended supply chain processes.

About Travis Perkins PLC
Travis Perkins PLC, is the leading supplier to the building and construction market – one of the largest industries in the UK. The TP group comprises 17 businesses trading from 1,900 outlets and trades through a number of divisions including:- Travis Perkins (Merchants), BSS and Wickes supplying more than 100,000 product lines covering building materials, landscaping materials, timber and sheet materials, painting and decorating, dry lining and insulation, doors and joinery, and hand and power tools. TP also supplies a comprehensive range of bathroom, heating and plumbing products under the PTS trading name and this, together with 205 Home Improvement Centres throughout England, Wales and Scotland serving a core customer base of serious DIYers and professional tradesmen, makes the company one of the largest in the UK.

For further information about Travis Perkins and its businesses, visit www.travisperkinsgroup.co.uk