Nisa-Today's Selects Inovisworks.net to Provide
Trading Community Connectivity Excellence
Nisa-Today's, the UK's Largest Independent Supermarket Buying Consortium, Selects Inovisworks.net to be Preferred Value-Added Network (VAN)
ATLANTA, GA - December 6, 2005 — Inovis, a leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) solutions and services, announced today that Nisa-Today's, the UK's largest distribution and services organization for retail and wholesale companies, has selected Inovisworks.net, Inovis' value-added network (VAN), as its preferred electronic data interchange (EDI) provider and will commence migrating its trading community immediately. Inovis offers Inovisworks.net in the UK through its partnership with Kewill, a leading international provider of supply chain execution software and services.
Nisa-Today's will rely on Inovisworks.net for the flow and management of critical B2B commerce data across its trading community of more than 1,200 vendors. Inovisworks.net, which provides a powerful engine for end-to-end control and visibility of B2B transactions and trading partner relationships, is complemented by full integration capabilities with Kewill's MessageBroker solution, which converts internal application data formats to and from EDI.
"As the UK's largest distribution and services organization for retail and wholesale companies, we have a long and successful tradition of continuously servicing our members through a broad trading partner community," said Wayne Swallow, IT director for Nisa-Today's. "Foremost, as we strive to continually improve that service, is the perpetual advancement of our supply chain, and the Kewill-Inovis offering delivers the most comprehensive, flexible and scalable product suite."
A Kewill customer for many years, Nisa-Today's valued the long-term partnership and support they received from the Kewill team. When Kewill partnered with Inovis to offer Inovisworks.net to the UK market, it brought together Inovis' best-of-breed hosted services for connectivity and data synchronization with Kewill's proven name for serving the UK retail marketplace with B2B solutions.
"Inovis is focused on providing customers like Nisa-Today's with a robust, integrated suite of business-to-business solutions and services that deliver revenue and profitability through trading community management," said Sean Feeney, president and CEO of Inovis. "Our partnership with Kewill enables Inovis to provide a single point of contact for software and the value-added network in the UK, which helps our customers to manage their supply chains more effectively and remain competitive in today's retail marketplace."
About Nisa Today's
Nisa-Today's is the UK's largest distribution and services organisation for retail and wholesale companies. Its commercial objective is to negotiate the lowest cost price of products and provide the most efficient supply chain for its member companies, by strategically using their combined turnover powerbase.
The Group has three warehouses - two temperature-controlled depots in Harlow, Essex and Stoke-on-Trent and a brand new 625,000 sq ft ambient warehouse at its Central Office site in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire (this warehouse is an amalgamation - plus additional capacity - of the group's two former ambient warehouses on the same industrial park).
About Kewill
Kewill Solutions Europe is the European Supply Chain Execution (SCE) division of Kewill Systems Plc, a leading international company dedicated to the development and provision of software and services to manage complex business to business supply chains.
With over 33 years experience in the supply chain space, Kewill Systems is a long-time innovator of SCE software focusing on order management, shipping management, international trade logistics and visibility solutions for global trading communities.
Over 55,000 customers have trusted Kewill Systems Plc for the management of their supply chain information including household names such as Littlewoods, Sainsbury's, Express Gifts, JD Williams, SRG, Iomega, Marks & Spencer, Xerox, Toys R Us, Federal Express, Pratt & Whitney, Mazda and Smith & Nephew. For more information, visit www.kewill.com
About Inovis
Inovis is a leading provider of business-to-business solutions for global trading relationships. With more than 20 years of experience, Inovis enables collaborative business processes and solves the complete B2B integration challenge for more than 20,000 customers and their trading partners. The company’s comprehensive line of B2B software and managed services help companies speed transaction flows, synchronize product information and improve supply chain processes. For more information, visit www.inovis.com.