Polypipe goes for streamlined operations and business visibility with IFS

The company says it’s implementing financial, supply chain, manufacturing, distribution and maintenance operations components – and replacing disparate legacy systems and automating manual processes. The system is being implemented site-by-site during the course of this year, and when complete will result in much better and faster visibility of information, as well as the ability to respond quickly across the group to changing market requirements. It will also support improvements at each of Polypipe’s UK businesses in market areas like specialist plastic components, subassemblies and fittings, and pre-packed merchandise distribution. “Managing our processes to deliver best value products into every market is critical,” explains Mike McKay, head of Information Services at Polypipe, “and as such we need to streamline many of these to improve efficiency across the company as a whole. “IFS was able to demonstrate a better match to our requirements than its competitors. IFS’ experience in the plastics and manufacturing industry reinforced that it has an understanding of our business and our industry, and provided the confidence that it is able to deliver the system to support Polypipe.”