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Small suppliers that can't afford the supermarket giant's full programme can now take advantage of a free ordering and invoicing system, writes David Arminas
Sainsbury's is targeting 1,000 of its 2,400 small to medium-sized suppliers to take up its website electronic data interchange system, Web-EDI.
Around 40 suppliers are now using the system. The goal is to sign up 50 new users a week, according to David Simister, the supermarket chain's logistics collaborative systems manager.
Sainsbury's started Web-EDI last October as an experiment in invoicing and ordering. It is specifically aimed at small suppliers that can't afford the group's full-blown collaborative planning systems (CPS), an interactive...