Recognition for sales and procurement process improvements

19/02/2010: Dr. Keith Blacker, former Group FD Simplyhealth, joins Board

With former roles as Group Finance Director for Simplyhealth and Operations Director for Carivita SpA (Milan), Keith brings substantial experience to businesses from nearly 30 years of working in a variety of board and executive roles. His breadth of experience in different economic cycles across both large and small organisations enables him to bring practical experience to topical board issues as well as being able to make a positive contribution to the strategic development of a business.

"We are delighted that Keith has joined the senior team. His knowledge and enthusiasm will add greatly to the overall depth and quality of our products and services to our customers." - Simon Fox, CEO, TBiConnect

08/01/2010: Using Connect, Bupa Wellness win prestigous QICM Award

TBi are delighted that the QiCM Award recognises Bupa Wellness for the outstanding progress they have made in their credit and billing systems and in the service that they provide to their customers.

"We are proud that TBiConnect has been able to play a central part in achieving this and are delighted to be working with Martin Kirby and his team on further initiatives to deliver more benefits, efficiencies and improvement within the business." - Simon Fox, CEO, TBiConnect

08/10/2009: TBi Business Awards Finalists

TBiConnect Limited has been awarded 'Finalist' status in the Innovation category of the Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo Business Awards 2009 for its "Connect" products. The presentation took place at a black tie dinner and award ceremony at Cheltenham Racecourse on Thursday October 8th 2009 attended by over 630 company representatives. Richard Hardy, area commercial director for Gloucestershire for HSBC, described the evening as 'a top class celebration of business'.

"This award acknowledges our progressive and innovative products and the success we find through our customers. It further reflects our drive to make innovation an integral part of the culture within the business." - Simon Fox, CEO, TBiConnect

30/07/2009: TBi win Bupa Campaign Management contract

Processing 200,000 records every day to decide eligibility and recall based on contract terms, seniority, age and sex resulted in Wellness failing to meet agreed levels of service and was impacting profitability. Affecting their future growth and profitability plans, Bupa Wellness were faced with legacy systems where inflexibility and functionality issues were not only prevalent but seemingly insoluble.

Bupa found the solution with TBi. In just eight weeks TBI's ConnectSales was linked to Bupa Wellness' existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data and is now configured dynamically to priotise and manage calls, outcomes and booking of customers. It also manages distributed capacity across all Wellness Healtchcare centres .

The flexibility and speed of deployment of the ConnectSales Campaign Manager provides Bupa Wellness with the tools to market, deploy and manage new health products and campaigns at the pace set by the business, not dictated by legacy IT. more...

12/12/2008: TBi win Bupa Invoice Validation contract

Facing an urgent and ongoing need to issue accurate, timely invoices to customers, Bupa Wellness were faced with difficult legacy system functionality where inflexibility and inaccuracy issues were not only prevalent but seemingly insoluble.

Bupa found the solution with TBi. TBI's ConnectSales now links into Bupa Wellness' existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and is configured to process the invoice stream, providing new levels of granularity and productivity.

Accurate electronic invoices are now generated automatically and are being approved far sooner than before resulting in £million's every year being paid weeks earlier than previously. more...

15/09/2007: First Greater Western adopts Connect Procurement

First Great Western (FGW) is a UK train operating group, part of First Group Plc, with over 70 local operating sites and depots nationwide. A SAP Financials user, FGW used manual ordering and accounts payable processes to handle in excess of 200,000 trading transactions annually.

"Connect Procurment vastly simplified our ordering, approval and invoice authorisation processes. It unblocked the bottlenecks of both information and control between our suppliers, our local sites and SAP Financials. Most impressively FGW users preferred it to the old system. I started getting emails from staff and managers at Paddington and Bristol saying how pleased they were to get corporate approvals and therefore deliveries more quickly. They really appreciated the simplicity of the new system." Mark Tatham, Financial Controller for FGW more...

"Connect is flexible, innovative and rapidly implemented.
It has had a huge impact on customer satisfaction, cash flow and even on resource costs."

Martin Kirby
AR Manager, Bupa Wellness

"Connect vastly simplified our ordering, approval and invoice authorisation processes."

Mark Tatham
Financial Controller
First Great Western