Apps Run The World Apps Purchases

Customer	Industry	Empl.	Revenue	Country	Vendor	Application	Category	When	VAR/SI	Insight Source
Smiths Group Plc	Manufacturing	14000	$3.5B	United Kingdom	OpenText	OpenText Trading Grid (ex GXS)	Supply Chain Management	2005	n/a	In 2005, Smiths Group Plc implemented OpenText Trading Grid (ex GXS) to provision an online supplier portal for its John Crane business in Sunbury, United Kingdom. The deployment centered on the OpenText Trading Grid application and the OLV online supplier portal to enable electronic forecasts, acknowledgements and electronic shipment notice creation and visibility for procurement and planning teams. The implementation included the OLV supplier portal and GXS Community Link, a trading partner enabling solution used for community outreach, education and partner testing. Functionally the solution delivered supplier-facing portals, buyer and planner dashboards, forecast distribution, acknowledgement processing and ASN creation, aligning with Supply Chain Management workflows for purchasing, demand planning and supplier collaboration. Integration work tied the OpenText Trading Grid application to John Crane internal ERP and to both EDI compliant and non-EDI suppliers, providing a centralised exchange layer between internal order and planning systems and external trading partners. Operational coverage explicitly targeted internal buyers and planners and a mixed base of small and medium suppliers, moving communications away from manual email, fax and phone exchanges toward automated electronic message flows. Governance and rollout emphasized partner enablement, with structured training, community outreach and testing through Community Link to onboard suppliers and validate message formats. Reported outcomes in the announcement cited tangible benefits including improved personnel productivity and planning accuracy, reflecting the intended Supply Chain Management improvements to procurement and supplier collaboration.
SABMiller	Consumer Packaged Goods	69000	$22.1B	United Kingdom	Infor	Infor Supply Chain Planning	Supply Chain Management	2012	n/a
	Life Sciences	39000	$4.0B	United Kingdom	Constellation Software Inc.	CSI Trapeze Passenger Transportation	Transportation Management	2008	n/a
	Utilities	8000	$3.4B	United Kingdom	SAP	SAP Supply Chain Management	Supply Chain Management	2009	n/a
	Consumer Packaged Goods	4166	$1.1B	United Kingdom	Oracle	Oracle Demantra	Demand Forecasting and Planning	2005	n/a
	Oil, Gas and Chemicals	1700	$1.9B	United Kingdom	SAP	SAP ERP ECC 6.0 - Materials Management (MM)	Inventory Management	2010	n/a
	Utilities	5700	$2.4B	United Kingdom	SAP	SAP ERP ECC 6.0 - Materials Management (MM)	Inventory Management	2014	n/a
	Oil, Gas and Chemicals	2000	$318M	United Kingdom	SAP	SAP Supply Chain Management	Supply Chain Management	2004	n/a
	Retail	28853	$4.7B	United Kingdom	Blue Yonder	Blue Yonder Demand Planning (ex JDA Demand Planning)	Demand Forecasting and Planning	2016	n/a
	Life Sciences	3600	$2.0B	United Kingdom	Infor	Infor Supply Chain Execution	Supply Chain Management	2014	n/a

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Smiths Group Plc

Manufacturing

14000

$3.5B

United Kingdom

OpenText

OpenText Trading Grid (ex GXS)

Supply Chain Management

2005

n/a

In 2005, Smiths Group Plc implemented OpenText Trading Grid (ex GXS) to provision an online supplier portal for its John Crane business in Sunbury, United Kingdom. The deployment centered on the OpenText Trading Grid application and the OLV online supplier portal to enable electronic forecasts, acknowledgements and electronic shipment notice creation and visibility for procurement and planning teams. The implementation included the OLV supplier portal and GXS Community Link, a trading partner enabling solution used for community outreach, education and partner testing. Functionally the solution delivered supplier-facing portals, buyer and planner dashboards, forecast distribution, acknowledgement processing and ASN creation, aligning with Supply Chain Management workflows for purchasing, demand planning and supplier collaboration. Integration work tied the OpenText Trading Grid application to John Crane internal ERP and to both EDI compliant and non-EDI suppliers, providing a centralised exchange layer between internal order and planning systems and external trading partners. Operational coverage explicitly targeted internal buyers and planners and a mixed base of small and medium suppliers, moving communications away from manual email, fax and phone exchanges toward automated electronic message flows. Governance and rollout emphasized partner enablement, with structured training, community outreach and testing through Community Link to onboard suppliers and validate message formats. Reported outcomes in the announcement cited tangible benefits including improved personnel productivity and planning accuracy, reflecting the intended Supply Chain Management improvements to procurement and supplier collaboration.