Ward Recycling

Utilising technology to improve the business

Ward Recycling was established in the 1950's specialising in the recycling of ferrous & non-ferrous metals near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. ISO9001 quality accreditation was achieved in 1990 and during the following years the company directors realised the potential to develop and grow Ward Recycling by responding to the waste management needs of modern business and industry.

In 2002 the company expanded to its second location, a 10 acre site at Ilkeston in Derbyshire, representing a total investment of over £10m to 2009. February 2004 saw continued investment with the installation of the £5m Metso Lindemann shredder at the Ilkeston site, further ensuring Ward Recycling's full compliance with European Union waste management and recycling directives. Today Ward Recycling has an annual turnover in excess of £50m, employs over 130 people and operates a fleet of over 50 vehicles.

The significant growth enjoyed by the company in the last ten years has led to problems as Donald Ward, explains, “We had purchased our systems separately and although they worked fine in themselves it was very difficult to share information across different parts of the company.

“We are very keen to utilise technology to improve the business and its processes and so we are always looking at ways to automate what we do. We realised that if we invested in an integrated enterprise wide system that we could remove these problems and provide a strong platform for future business growth.”

Tried and tested solution for waste management
Ward investigated the market to see what integrated products were available for the recycling industry and eventually decided to implement Enwis from Qurius. Powered by Microsoft Dynamics, Enwis is the most comprehensive packaged software solution available today for the recycling and waste management industry.

By automating process and integrating business functions, Enwis manages critical information, data, and documents in easy-to-use formats – allowing organisations to carry out their day to day operations efficiently. By unifying information flow, financial controls, contract management, waste tracking and analysis, fleet management, equipment hire and human resource management, all operate within a single integrated system.

“We chose Enwis for a number of reasons”, said Donald. “Firstly it was based on a Microsoft platform and so would easily integrate with all our office productivity software. Secondly, it seamlessly integrated both the operational and financial sides of the business. And finally it was tried and tested by other companies in the metal recycling industry, so we knew it was a reliable and growing solution.”

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