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Webaspx Wins I.T. Award Of Excellence
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Birmingham 11th July 2003: It is my pleasure to inform you that the Awards Committee at the Institute of Transport Management has decided to name Webaspx as recipient of ‘IT Award of Excellence’ accreditation 2003. The accreditation comes in the wake of an extensive research into standards within the IT and transportation market. Webaspx offers a unique combination of business knowledge and leading technology capabilities, which make it an ideal partner for businesses who are thinking of implementing new e-business or supply chain applications. The company has made a huge contribution to the industry, offering software solutions to its clients, enabling them to gain an overview of their operations and implement changes as required.

Runcorn based, Webaspx was formed in 1999 as a privately owned company offering a unique combination of process and logistics industries knowledge and leading edge capabilities. Webaspx works continually in conjunction with its clients developing and refining a range of planning and operational tools which help improve performance and reduce costs. Whether it is benchmarking fleet performance, analysing new contract tenders in depth or optimising day to day planning, Webaspx’s innovative software and services have been shown to deliver excellent results and bring competitive advantage. 

Webaspx has three leading edge capabilities: Design and development of e-business applications such as e-procurement, intranets, extranets and other web based enterprise applications; Supply Chain Planning and Optimisation for operating companies. Webaspx understand that having the right product, in the right place at the right time is an essential pre requisite of meeting a customers' requirements. To this end and in order to maintain and improve customer service levels, Webaspx has developed a supply chain analysis and optimisation tool which enables the stimulation and optimisation of the supply chain hence improving manufacturing planning.

Webaspx has also introduced a range of powerful Distribution Resource Planning products designed for haulage and logistics operators. Land Transport Optimiser enables vehicle movements and resources to be optimised. Designed for the practical planning and optimisation of transport routing and scheduling of transportation assets, this range of powerful products provides the flexible choice of building traffic and optimising routes, scheduling deliveries, tracking distribution patterns and examining costs.

Commenting on the award, Karen Harman, Head of research for the ITM said: “We are delighted to accredit Webaspx with the ‘IT Award of Excellence 2003’ for the second year running. The research and development work undertaken by this company over the last year has advanced the case of the transport operator to further reduce costs and increase efficiencies. Backed by experienced project managers and business analysts together with an innovative group of highly trained professionals, Webaspx is ideally placed to match customers with the most appropriate software technology. The ITM is happy to give full endorsement, through this accreditation, to Webaspx and the services the company provides.”

Calum Forsyth, Managing Director of Webaspx comments: “We are particularly pleased to have won this prestigious award for a second time. Our Land Transport Optimiser tool has already helped clients in the logistics sector to reduce costs and improve operating policies. We look forward to building on the success of this award in 2003 and beyond.”

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