Vanda Coatings
Commercial recoating firm, Cardiff
- Size
- Not stated
- Where
- UK
The job
The owner built a custom system, starting with purchase order matching and then costing, scheduling and reporting. It extracts and validates data so staff no longer retype figures between documents, and reports run automatically. Staff test each step and handle edge cases and judgement calls.
Tool: Custom Built
What happened
The team saved five hours of admin a week once the system was running.
An audit found about 30,000 data duplication points across the business. Errors from copying numbers between documents dropped to near zero on the automated steps, and reports that took most of a day now take minutes.
Before you believe it
The story is published by smedigital.ai, the practice the owner now runs to advise other firms, so he is selling the approach as well as reporting it. Date, 26 March 2026, is from the page schema, not shown in the text. Staff numbers for Vanda itself are not given. The owner has an MSc in Computing, which most owners do not.
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Source
smedigital.ai ↗, 26 March 2026 · vendor story
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