Tesco PLC has awarded the contract to maintain its uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) at its nationwide distribution centres to Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited.

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Case Study Tesco
Tesco awards maintenance contract to UPS Ltd
Tesco PLC has awarded the contract to maintain
its uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) at its
nationwide distribution centres to
Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited. Power
consumption is rising rapidly, driven indirectly
by legislation enacted to promote improvements of
corporate accountability, and by UK public bodies
fulfilling expectations to provide an ever
increasing number of IT services 24 hours per day
with little or no down-time. Ruth Salter,
Corporate Purchasing and Buying Manager at Tesco
PLC says, "It is vital that the data centres that
support the Tesco goods distribution network are
one hundred percent operational 24/7. I can think
of no area that's more business critical, so the
preventative maintenance of our systems is of
paramount importance." Tesco has 32
distributions centres nationwide, replenishing
the shelves of nearly 2000 stores ready to meet
the daily demand from its customers, explains
Salter. "For our stores to be supplied with goods
on schedule we cannot afford for distribution
management systems to be unavailable." Salter
says that Tesco regularly reviews and seeks to
maximise the quality of the services provided by
outside contractors. "In this case, the ability
to provide all of the services at every one of
our distribution centres, on-schedule and
on-budget was paramount. Uninterruptible Power
Supplies Limited was the outstanding candidate
and knowing that this aspect of the company's
critical business is in their reliable hands
ensures peace of mind. Graham Fullick, Service
Sales Manager at Uninterruptible Power Supplies
Limited, says that companies like Tesco recognise
that UPS maintenance is key to ensuring maximum
availability of computer systems and
communications equipment. "The cost of power
failures could be severe both financially and
operationally - for example lost revenue,
employee and fleet downtime, and corrupted, lost
or unavailable data. Put simply, a UPS provides
a critical function so it would be very risky to
put it all in place and then forget about it.
UPS 222-01-00
End user Industry Scope Contact
Phone Email Web
Tesco Retail Maintenance of UPS power
protection Uninterruptible Power Supplies
Ltd Bacchus House Calleva Park Aldermaston Berkshi
re RG7 8EN 0118 981 5151 sales_at_upspower.co.uk www
.upspower.co.uk
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Preventative maintenance means that companies
have the reassurance that the UPS will perform to
requirements and keep business systems
running. Preventative maintenance enables
Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited engineers
to check system calibrations, evaluate operating
conditions, ensure that components are working
and to assess the optimum time for their
replacement.
"Too early is costly, but too late means risking
load damage. When a UPS is protecting a mission
critical load it is better to replace batteries
six months too early than a day too late,
comments Fullick.
According to Salter, ranking high on Tesco's
list of attributes for maintenance service
providers are an established Health and Safety
culture and practitioners of best practices in
all relevant areas. Uninterruptible Power
Supplies Limited has been able to meet all of
Tesco's service requirements, confirms Fullick.
"All of our procedures - installation,
commissioning, maintenance and right-sizing - are
well-documented, safe and of consistently high
standard. Our quality assurance systems are ISO
9001 certified. We have also achieved ISO14001
and OHSAS18001 certification which help to
support Tesco's policies on the environment and
health safety."
Contact Uninterruptible Power Supplies
Ltd Bacchus House Calleva Park Aldermaston Berkshi
re RG7 8EN Phone [phone] Email sales_at_upsp
ower.co.uk Web www.upspower.co.uk
UPS 222-01-00