Serious Food opts for BCP's Accord

UK foodservice wholesaler, Serious Food Distribution (SFD), is making a £50,000 investment in a 15 user Accord system from supply chain solutions specialist, Business Computer Projects Ltd (BCP).

Stockport, UK (PRWEB) March 11, 2006 -- UK Foodservice wholesaler, Serious Food Distribution (SFD), is making a £50,000 investment in a 15 user Accord system from supply chain solutions specialist, Business Computer Projects Ltd (BCP}.

SFD is the foodservice wing of Serious Food of Llantrisant, the well known, high quality juice manufacturer which produces most of the “freshly-squeezed” orange juice and fruit smoothies in the UK. SFD provides a nationwide distribution service to city centre hotels, catering establishments and independent retailers. It uses its own fleet of modern, multi-temperature vehicles to deliver a range of high quality, speciality foods and fruit juices from its 3 depots located in Slough, Llantrisant and Birmingham.

BCP is one of the UK’s top suppliers of specialist Supply Chain solutions to the Food and Drink Wholesale industry with key clients including Woodward Foodservice, BWG, Musgrave and SPAR.

The investment in new technology was stimulated by SFD’s rapid growth and the need for a more sophisticated system to assist this growth and its plans to open a nationwide network of depots. BCP was chosen following a lengthy selection process reviewing offerings from a number of leading suppliers.

The investment covers BCP’s complete Accord solution including Purchasing, Sales Order Management, Stock Control, Telesales and Financial Accounting. BCP will work alongside EDP, the leading provider of mobile sales solutions, to develop a fully integrated van sales solution for SFD. The system will be fully implemented at all 3 depots by Easter, one of the busiest times of the year for SFD.

A key element in securing the contract was BCP’s food and drink industry background, consistent track record of delivering successful implementations and, not least, Accord’s comprehensive functionality which is an excellent fit for the majority of the company’s business. In particular, the system will help SFD to improve stock management and grow turnover. As Divisional Director, Vince Price, explains: “Accord’s proactive Telesales will transform our Telesales operation, allowing us to ‘sell’ rather than just take orders. It looked good on paper, but seeing it in action at an existing client clinched it for us. It will help us to grow the business both in terms of the value of each sale and the number of customers contacted each day.”

For further information please contact Pauline Higgs at BCP:
T: +44 (0)161 355 3000
F: +44 (0)161 355 3001
W: http://www.bcpsoftware.com

All our systems have been developed using Progress 4GL ensuring they are user friendly and easy to tailor, with powerful, flexible reporting and management information facilities. Their OpenEdge(TM) architecture makes them suitable for use on a wide range of platforms, giving clients maximum choice and flexibility in hardware and operating system platform selection and allowing easy integration with many other technologies, such as .NET, Java and Web Services.

As a technology innovator, BCP systems are in the forefront when it comes to applying new technologies to the Food Industry Supply Chain. Recently these include Voice technology in the warehouse, using Web Services and EDI-INT for Supply Chain Integration and keeping abreast of new developments in the industry, such as “Chip and Pin”. We also operate a number of managed services for our clients, including AIMS (Accord Internet Messaging Service) for passing information reliably and securely between sites, an EFT Bureau and an EDI Bureau.

BCP clients include SPAR, Musgrave, BWG, Woodward Food Service, Pets at Home, William Morrison Supermarkets, Pedigree Wholesale.

About Serious Food - http://www.seriousfood.co.uk

For further information or photographs, please contact Pauline Higgs at BCP:
Tel: +44 (0)161 355 3000; Fax: +44 (0)161 355 3001
Email: Pauline.higgs @ bcpsoftware.com

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