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Business Profile

SCURRI

That package you received this The business was established by manage deliveries. The barcode
morning? At business, or at Rory O’Connor, initially from his label is the key to getting
home, shortly after making your home village of Duncannon on the something delivered.”
latest online order? Chances County Wexford coast, in 2010. When the courier arrives to collect
are, Scurri had something to do Rory worked for years at world- the item, they use the barcode
with it. famous Waterford Crystal, in the to scan it into their system and
sales and marketing department
E-commerce is becoming more of the luxury goods brand, and then proceed with delivery, so the
and more widely-used, not just also for some time with AOL on a same code is used throughout the
in the world of business where number of IT projects. transaction.
for years it’s been a daily part of “Years ago, if you ordered
life, but also at home where more His stints at both of those firms something from Amazon it would
and more people are choosing to taught him the importance of go off into the ether and you’d be
order clothes, technology, gifts, good logistics: no point in having hoping it would arrive safely.”
furniture, and more online with quality products to sell if you can’t
the convenience of often better get them to the customer on time. The barcode technology ensures
value and delivery to their door. nothing is left to chance.
Originally, the thinking behind “We keep the wheels oiled in
How to ensure a smooth transition Scurri was to solve the problem e-commerce and it all happens
between order, despatch, shipping of excess capacity, and freeing up behind the scenes.”
and delivery? That’s where capacity for use by consumers.
Scurri comes in. Think of the “If you had a canoe or a box or a Scurri use about 30 different
company, which has its head set of wheels to deliver, we were carriers in the UK, choosing
office in Wexford and also has a one-stop-shop for that,” he whichever one works best for each
offices in Dublin and London, as explains. particular order based on weight
a kind of “one-stop-shop” for the or size or location.
e-commerce business. They realised after a short time The company is now based in
that the area of barcode software
Scurri provides peace of mind was one that could do with Wexford town, employing about
both for the retailer, who wants to attention, so Scurri became a 30 people, with exciting plans to
ensure there’s no glitch between primarily B2B company, using expand to as much as double that
sending off an item and that item’s cloud computing to take all size in the coming years.
arrival at the customer’s base or purchase, order and delivery Most of the employees work from
home, and for the purchaser who information, generating a unique Wexford, with some developers
can track the order from initial barcode for each transaction and based in various locations across
‘‘ All of our people are item from start to finish. when it comes to attracting the
payment to delivery.
the world. Rory finds that
ensuring that the barcode could
Wexford has many attractions
be used to track a delivery
best international staff.
“Since 2013 we’ve
The area already has a heritage
focused on the UK
top-class developers who
in the logistics business, mainly
market. We provide
due to the presence of Rosslare
solutions to
have a look at our video and
UK and continental Europe.
merchants
come and visit us and they love e-commerce Europort and its easy access to the
to provide
Meanwhile, as a place to live and
barcode
Wexford. Some people want to labels work Wexford has few equals,
according to the CEO. “All of our
and
go to the city but other people are people are top-class developers
who have a look at our video and
looking for a different experience. ’’ come and visit us and they love
Wexford. We’re right beside the
sea and it’s a nice town, not too
Rory O’Connor, CEO and Founder, Scurri big and not too small, and has
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