Case Study: Irish Hardware and Buildings Materials Association (IHBMA) achieves significant cost savings and improved efficiency with TrueCommerce

Truecommerce Creates Electronic Trading Community for National Industry Body

IHBMA (the Irish Hardware and Building Materials Association) needed to take significant cost out of the supply chain and improve business performance across its membership, so it engaged GS1 and TrueCommerce. TrueCommerce provided its Secure Managed File Transfer (SMFT) network, web trading portal and EDI integration software to enable electronic exchange of orders and invoices using GS1 Global Location Numbers (GLNs).

TrueCommerce configured its core EDI, SMFT and web-forms solution into an industry-specific electronic trading community, allowing members to prepare and send documents online. The TrueCommerce implementation reduced processing costs, removed paper handling and lost files, increased accuracy and freed staff to focus on sales and core tasks, delivering clear efficiency and cost-saving benefits across IHBMA’s membership.

IHBMA

Jim Copeland

Chief Executive