Corus International, formerlyBritish Steel, has invested in a trade
management system to reduce the time it spends managing
orders.
The Kewill Spex export documentation system, to be implemented
next month, is expected to save up to three days of staff time on
each of the 200 contracts Corus processes a month.
Corus, which exports eight million tonnes of steel products a
year, needed to cut administration process times to protect its
margins, said Graham Royle, information systems manager at the
firm.
"Spex will eliminate delivery delays and speed up customer
payments by ensuring the correct documentation is available," he
said.
The project is also expected to improve service by freeing staff
to provide feedback to customers.
The system replaces a legacy 16-bit export software application.
Corus plans to follow it with an enterprise resource planning
system in April 2008. This will save time by consolidating
processes into a single work environment.
Royle said the Wysiwyg interface was the key reason for choosing
the product. "It was the only one backed by a big company that
enabled us to see the effects of changes immediately without
needing to preview the document and then go back and make
formatting changes," he said.