Simon Jersey, leading UK corporate and workwear specialist has signed with Datel to supply, implement and support the leading corporate clothing eBusiness solution e.ssential.

Simon Jersey design, manufacture and distribute uniforms to businesses and industry worldwide. Supplying over 2.8 million garments a year the company distributes its clothing in 25 countries. With customers spanning industry sectors such as hospitality, retail, retail service and transport along with being the preferred supplier to the NHS Simon Jersey is focused on excelling at customer service.

Datel, suppliers of specialist software to the clothing and footwear industries will be implementing the e.ssential eBusiness solutions, online wardrobe management and catalogue over the next few months. Both solutions will integrate with Simon Jersey’s existing ERP solution to provide seamless integration between the front end and back office systems. The solution is to support Simon Jersey’s managed service customers in the UK and Europe.

Graham Entwistle, IT Manager at Simon Jersey comments, ‘we see eBusiness as an important area of investment for our company. We want to provide our customers with the highest levels of service. The solutions from Datel will enable us not only to provide the ability for our customers to order online at their convenience, it will also enable us to provide the online wardrobe facility for those customers who we provide a managed service to.’

‘We selected Datel’s solution for two key reasons, firstly they demonstrated an understanding of the complexities of the corporate clothing industry and this was reflected in the level of functionality in their online wardrobe management solution and secondly Datel embraced the enhancements to the product that we required to meet the most demanding customer requirements. In doing so they have produced a website that is, we believe, functionally superior to any other corporate clothing website offering. We are currently working to go live with our first customer on the online wardrobe management solution.’

Neil Boston, Sales Director added, ‘On the strength of the Datel system we have recently won a €1 million contract with a major multi-site retailer in France, for which we were competing against 3 French uniform specialists.’

Martin Rath, Director at Datel added, ‘We are delighted to be working with Simon Jersey on this project. The solution will enable Simon Jersey to deliver a flexible online ordering, enquiring and tracking system, with full wardrobe management. Customers utilising this service will benefit from enhanced services levels and improved budget control.’