Home Builder Online – Reduce Costs And Improve Efficiency

Causeway Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has joined the House Builders' e-Commerce Initiative. Causeway Technologies, a market-leading provider of solutions to the UK construction industry adds weight to the development of eBuild-XML.

Causeway Technologies today announced that it has committed to be a part of the development of eBuild-XML, a joint initiative formed by sixteen of the largest UK house builders to aid the development of e-commerce in their sector, reduce costs and improve efficiency.

The initiative is being led by BASDA (the Business Application Software Developers Association). It is helping the house builders and suppliers to develop a B2B e-commerce system that will initially enable them to exchange orders and invoices electronically between their different computer systems.

Causeway is joining some forty companies, including most of the major house builders, who are working together with suppliers to develop electronic orders and invoices based on BASDA's existing XML message standard. Work has already begun to define message standards to handle the specialist information that is required in the housing industry and a series of pilot schemes to test the message will begin shortly.

"We have identified major savings which can be made by exchanging orders and invoices electronically. It will reduce costs, save time re-keying data, reduce errors, and improve delivery to site," explained a housing industry representative. "For us this provides the ideal low cost e-commerce solution which fits in perfectly with our 'just in time' delivery requirements and it benefits both house builders and suppliers."

The concept of eBuild-XML is to be a low cost initiative that any supplier or house builder can join. The benefits of sixteen major house builders committing to one e-commerce standard have been well received by the suppliers. "This will make it easier to trade electronically with a vast number of house builders. A single standard is very important for the growth of e-commerce in this sector," said Frank Smith of Travis Perkins. "This is a very attractive proposition for suppliers".

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