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The Sleep People Tender for ERP System

We are a mattress manufacturer based in Ossett, West Yorkshire. With a recent major expansion of manufacturing facilities to accommodate our growing business needs, we are now looking for a supplier to implement an ERP solution across our entire operations and ultimately to integrate the ERP with our existing accounting operation and Linnworks inventory system.

Currently, the business uses a mixture of systems and data alongside various spreadsheets, and some manual paperwork to manage business processes including, order fulfilment, inventory, purchasing and production. The supplier will be required to review these processes and ensure that our data requirements are reflected in the ERP dashboard and reporting functions in relation to items such as (but not exclusively), real-time visibility of inventory via locations, accurate tracking of costs and availability,  and insight into sales, stock, production, and performance.

The project is anticipated to commence in February 2026 with a completion date of late June / July 2026.

The Brief:

  • Review the current company system settings for the commercial modules, invoicing module and BOM, make changes if required to prevent incorrect postings.   
  • Run the necessary housekeeping routines to cleanse the data and maintain data integrity including: 
  • Nominal ledger
  • Sales ledger
  • Purchase ledger
  • Cash book
  • Invoicing
  • Sales order processing
  • Purchase order processing
  • Stock control
  • Price book
  • Bill of Materials
  • Excel Reporting
  • Report designer
  • System administration
  • Full Linnworks integration

The supplier will deliver:

  • Purchase of ERP modules listed below, software installation and setup, testing of systems, module configuration, agree dashboard and reporting functions and ensure seamless integration of ERP with existing reporting tools. 
  • Works Order Processing  - Allows the fixed BOM to be manipulated during production to facilitate accurate capture of material used and finished goods completed.
  • Material & Resource Planning - Allows for planning of material deliveries and labour/machine requirements based on multiple production requirements, including sales order yet to be fulfilled, sales forecast, minimum stock holding qty. delivery lead times for materials
  • Barcoding & Warehousing - Allows for efficient stock control via barcode scanning for stock taking, goods in, goods out, production picking, stock transfers between warehouses
  • Shop Floor Data Capture - Allows visibility of works orders through the production process, and capture of labour time per works order giving insight into potential process bottle necks and staffing levels
  • Integration with Linnworks to pull in all consolidated production requirements automatically.
  • Seamless connection to Xero for financial documents (Purchase Orders).
  • Real-time visibility of inventory across locations, with accurate tracking of costs and availability.
  • Configurable dashboards and reports for insight into sales, stock, production, and performance.
  • 5 Employee Self-Service Users

We are also looking for the purchase and set up of 4 – 5 bar code scanners compatible with the Warehousing module.

What we're looking for from a supplier

We have 6 key items we will be scoring suppliers against, with a maximum score of 5 for each of the below. We therefore expect proposals to include sufficient information in relation to these matters in their submissions: 

  • Must have proven experience in ERP architecture and system integration.
  • Experience of integration work between Linnworks and ERP solutions
  • Availability of the project management team assigned to the project for regular updates and their ability to deliver against our timescales
  • Relevant experience of lead project manager
  • Cost
  • Location of the supplier and capacity to attend the factory at short notice

Any queries regarding this tender should be emailed to Sarah Norbury at:

sarah.norbury@thesleeppeople.co.uk

This bid will close at 12.00 mid-day on the 18th February 2026 and the successful supplier will be contacted within 48 hours of that time and offered the project. 

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