Kewill

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Kewill Systems PLC
Corporate logo of Kewill
Type public (LSE Techmark: Kewill)
Founded London (1972)
Headquarters UK, USA
Key people Paul Nichols, CEO
Management Team
Industry Computer software
Products Enterprise Software
Website www.kewill.com

Kewill Systems PLC or simply "Kewill" is a notable developer and provisioner of order-to-delivery software systems for supply chain execution.

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[edit] Logistics Specialist

Kewill trades on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: KWL) is notable for Supply Chain Execution Compliance Management products. Systems track orders, freight packages and comply with international trade logistics and industry technical standards. This allows goods to freely flow across boarders, across different modes of transportation by meeting both security and customs clearance requirements. End-to-end systems reduce business risk on the uncertainty of where physical goods really are in todays virtual and increasingly global supply chains.

Kewill's trade solutions enable organizations of all sizes to trade locally, nationally or globally by synchronizing the physical movement of goods via internet-based integration and messaging. Hub and spoke hosted solutions are often provide software as a service via the Internet.

In many cases goods internet orders pull goods straight from factories or in transit supply chains enabling organizations to orchestrate the physical movement of goods without touching the physical goods. This type of virtualization increases productivity and lowers prices.

Kewill transportation solutions typically tie into multiple parcel carriers (DHL, FedEx, UPS). Enterprise shipping systems can be multi-modal: shipping containers, trains, trucks, to point of distribution.

[edit] History

Kewill, unlike most companies that associated with the Internet frenzy, has been in business for over 30 years. After "Kewill" (Ke and Will name taken from its 2 founders names) was founded in 1972 by Kevin Overstall and William Loeffen - it became consistently profitable trading on its reputation for Production Scheduling and Materials Management software. These applications evolved with PC networks into mid market ERP applications. With the advent of the Internet, Kewill was repositioned and expanded into e-Commerce and transportation solutions under CEO Geoffrey Finlay Ascari the founding ERP suites sold off during the dot com nuclear winter. Due to great fall from grace in the stock price and the market shift to profit revenue away from growth the market pressures forced new leader ship on Kewill. Paul Nichols current CEO experienced in senior roles with both Logica and IBM, rebuilt Kewill's senior management team and the companies product portfolio of specialist software products enabled for local, and international trade logistics.

[edit] Locations

Kewill headquartered in Sale, Greater Manchester, UK with group financial offices near Wimbledon, Greater London, UK. American headquaters in Marlborough near Boston. Asian HQ in Singapore. Central Europe main office south of Rotterdam, Holland, and other regional office locations.

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