Logica, a leading business and technology service company, today announced that Taylor Wimpey, one of the largest homebuilders in the UK, has renewed its IT outsourcing contract with Logica for another five years, in a deal worth £15.2 million. Taylor Wimpey has been a Logica customer for nine years and this new deal will see the relationship extend to 2016.

Logica will provide outsourcing of IT infrastructure management, technical applications support, managed testing and project delivery services for the UK house building business, with work taking place from Logica locations in the UK, India, and the Philippines. In supporting the fast-changing dynamic nature of Taylor Wimpey’s business, Logica has been instrumental in delivering cost savings and improved services across Taylor Wimpey’s 24 regional offices and circa 300 building sites in the UK. In a challenging housing market, and in line with Taylor Wimpey’s own efficiency targets, Logica has helped Taylor Wimpey realise significant savings.

Taylor Wimpey’s partnership with Logica is built on the level of service it provides, its understanding of technology needs for dynamic organisations and a commitment to providing best value.

Andy Feldon, CIO for Taylor Wimpey said, “We chose to renew our contract for another 5 years following a thorough external benchmarking process, which not only confirmed value-for-money, but also positioned Logica as the right technical partner to work with Taylor Wimpey on its extensive programme of change.”

Paul Muscat, Managing Director for the Transport & Commercial sector Logica said, “Our long-term relationship with Taylor Wimpey is testament to our ability to deliver a consistent service to our customers. Taylor Wimpey values the partnership approach it has developed with us over the last nine years.”

Muscat continued, “We are particularly excited about the next five years and supporting our partner in its goal to be the residential developer of choice for customers, employees and communities.”

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IT and business services company Logica has selected a new system for order to cash (O2C) processing for order-to-cash processing across its European operations.

Logica said it expects to handle five million O2C transactions annually using the Brainware Distiller system.

“After analyzing the market, we recognized that there was a dearth of solutions to help customers efficiently integrate their O2C operations and ensure the accuracy of their order and billing data. Traditional, manual methods for processing orders, are plagued by significant data inaccuracies, leading to problems such as incorrect shipments and significant delays in the issuance of corresponding invoices,” said Glenn Inniss, head of finance & procurement services for Logica.

“Distiller eliminates manual data entry, reduces processing errors attributable to master data inaccuracies, accelerates order and bill processing, and makes the entire process more efficient both for the end customer and Logica.”

As orders are received, the Distiller technology reads and classifies the documents, extracts specific data fields and line item detail, and then validates it against ERP systems. Once this process is complete, orders are passed for processing via Brainware’s workflow system.

Logica is an IT and business services company with 40,000 employees. It provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing services.

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