UK division Young’s Seafood will overhaul supplier communications with Kewill B2B contract

UK division Young’s Seafood will overhaul supplier communications with Kewill B2B contract

The UK division of the food manufacturer Findus Group, Young’s Seafood, is transforming its communications with its trading partners after choosing Kewill to provide a fully managed order management system.

The global trade and logistics provider said the new system will enable the fish and seafood producer to manage critical business-to-business (B2B) data across its multitude of brands and trading partners, through a single hosted platform.

Hosted systems provide IT solution

Following a competitive tender, Young’s Seafood will implement Kewill MessageBroker, a hosted data exchange system that will deliver consistency of data throughout the business. Young’s Seafood will also use Kewill Xchange, a B2B managed system for exchanging information with trading partners. Xchange will give Young’s Seafood clearer visibility and control over its entire order management processes.

Tony Carr, Findus Group IT director, commented: “The fast moving food industry is a diverse and ever changing environment, so we required a resilient and responsive system. Kewill understood not just our requirements, but also those of our trading partners, and therefore delivered a brief that catered for all of our businesses needs – presenting us with an agile, flexible and responsive hosted solution.

“The technology will consolidate our critical business data from across the enterprise, mitigating the business risk by relinquishing the need to rely on internal teams of specialists to handle the order management cycle – enabling us to focus on the business of selling quality food products.”

Centralising and integrating business

Brands under the Young’s Seafood umbrella include Young’s and Findus in the UK, alongside multiple own-label product ranges produced for customers. The end goal of the business is to achieve total centralisation of all business data, integrating all brand divisions.

Eventually, everything will link into a single enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for consistency of business data. Working toward this, Kewill added that it was currently replacing links into the different ERP systems across the many brands, preparing for the centralisation of critical business data.