About Us

Burdens Limited operate a dispersed WAN infrastructure utilising leading edge MPLS networking technologies, underpinned by a combination of E1 leased lines and uncontended DSL tails to support remote site connectivity. This infrastructure supports an end to end ERP solution, Unison, written in Progress, a Unix 4th generation language. Burdens enhance their technology platform with a progressive open connectivity policy, encouraging integration with customers and additional supply chain partners to increase benefits and joint success. In house development to support this approach allow us to exchange data to and from any number of trading partners in any given format.

Examples of this attitude are plentiful across our business spectrum, key examples of our collaborative developments are as follows;

Laing O'Rourke - Burdens and LOR jointly developed an end to end electronic trading process that enable LOR to raise orders on their Coins back office system, transfer them electronically to the Burdens Unison system (automatically creating the sales enquiry on Unison). Burdens then update the sales enquiry, confirming stock availability and delivery dates, creating a confirmed sales order. The delivery dates are then automatically transferred to LOR's back office in the form of an order confirmation. Post delivery, an electronic invoice is supplied direct to the LOR Coins system for automatic reconciliation. The payment process is further automated enabling efficient payment for LOR and reduced administration for Burdens with automated reconciliation of electronic remittance advices.

United Utilities (Northern Gas Network) - UU operate a SAP back office and jointly developed an interim order to invoice middleware solution to increase trading efficiency with Burdens. The Teamworks system enables UU to retain their pre-existing ordering functions (supporting self ordering either via web access direct to the Teamworks system or telephone ordering via the logistics partner provided order/sales desk). Orders are transferred electronically to Burdens, again creating sales enquiries automatically. The process from this point mirrors the above defined process line, with the exception of the invoices being first directed to the Teamworks system, before being authorised, pre-listed and re-formatted for automated transfer to SAP.

In addition to these collaboratively developed solutions, Burdens have also developed a large number of electronic relationships on a variety of scales to better support business relationships and supply chain profitability. Further details are available on request.