Morrisons, the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain,
has selected Freeway Commerce’s Spectrum 3 electronic trading
solution to more closely integrate its supply chain with
suppliers.
Morrisons uses an electronic data interchange (EDI) platform via
an IBM value added network (Van) to send orders and receive
invoices electronically from over 430 suppliers.
It also sends documentation electronically to the Inland
Revenue, including employee P60 forms.
Following the takeover of Safeway, Morrisons reviewed its EDI
systems with a view to rationalising and future-proofing its
systems.
The supermarket chain wanted an EDI system that could handle
current Van-based technology and which also provided a stepping
stone to new, lower cost internet-based technologies.
One of the reasons Morrisons chose Freeway’s Spectrum 3 solution
was that it was based on the Microsoft.Net web services
framework.
Spectrum 3 has been linked into Morrisons’ mainframe back office
systems to send and receive information in near real-time and it
provides management statistics when required.
Freeway Commerce’s software handles communications using EDI Van
technology, but it can also support the FTP and AS2 communications
options. It also has inherent web forms and XML capabilities.
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