Kerridge Commercial Systems, leading software provider to the builders' merchants' market place, recently became the first supplier of builders' merchants' software to be awarded e-Xact accreditation.
(March 2005)Kerridge Commercial Systems, and its software solution, K8, was recently awarded e-Xact accreditation.
According to Mike Shippin, Director of e-Xact, "'e-Xact activated' is a new scheme we have launched for companies selling software to merchants. To qualify, software companies will have to provide details of how their software interfaces with e-Xact (e.g. handling it's standard format files or interfacing with Level 3 e-Xact Servers)."
Companies will also have to demonstrate that their software conforms to a set of basic interface requirements.
Ian Bendelow, Business Development Director, Kerridge Commercial Systems, says, "we are very pleased to have been awarded e-Xact accreditation. It further demonstrates our commitment to the builders' merchant industry and strengthens the position of our market leading software solution, K8. This tight integration between K8 and e-Xact delivers a multitude of benefits, particularly at the Trade Counter, where e-Xact data can be seamlessly accessed directly from the K8 'point of sale' screens during an sales enquiry, thus offering a faster and better level of service to customers."
Builders' Merchants and other e-Xact members can now seamlessly be kept updated with supplier product information and price data. The data is fed through the Kerridge Commercial Systems' interface with the e-Xact database, and any updates can be performed instantly.
As part of the Kerridge Commercial Systems' K8 solution, integration with manufacturers, suppliers and bureaus catalogues / price lists is provided. One of these key integration layers is that with the on-line e-Xact system. Through this integration, distributors and merchants can selectively 'download' product data from the e-Xact system and automatically update their K8 price, product and stock files with data such as:
· Supplier/manufacturer product codes
· Descriptions
· Barcodes etc..
Additionally, direct access is provided to the rich content held on the e-Xact database so that for example a 'point of sale' operator can immediately see product images, COSHH data, waste packaging information and more.
Extended Functionality
The several layers of product, pricing and stocking details provided by K8 can be automatically updated from e-Xact. Normally, distributors and merchants have limited data maintenance resource and therefore only hold the details of the products that they normally stock on file. With K8 and e-Xact integration, many thousands of products can be held on file and called upon at the 'point of sale' for exceptional / special purchase and sales. This helps to ensure that all manufacturer and supplier data is accurately available at the point of contact with the customers. The availability of product codes, descriptions, prices etc. at the point of sales helps to reduce the number of human errors, increase customer service and provide better and more reliable management information.
Users can choose to update product data automatically or make use of checkpoints to validate data. This can be carried out either on demand or automatically as part of a 'batch' process.
The K8 e-Xact integration makes product maintenance easy, accurate and efficient. Other benefits include:
· High speed product data updates
· Updates on demand
· Timeliness of data updates
· Precision of product data
· Little or no manual keying of data
· Reduction in data maintenance costs
· Flexible price list mechanism
· Access to full supplier catalogues / price lists.
Continues Ian Bendelow,
"to be the first supplier of software solutions to builders'
merchants to be awarded e-Xact accreditation is a tremendous achievement
for us. Our K8 users will be able to access images, technical specification
and Health & Safety Sheets from within the enquiry and sales order
processing screens. Our philosophy is always to be one step ahead
and always in a position to offer the best possible solution to our
customers."
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Kerridge Commercial Systems
Kerridge Commercial Systems is a market leader in the development and provision of trading and financial software environments for specialist Distribution, Wholesale, Importing, Merchant and Retail industry sectors.
With 30 years experience, Kerridge Commercial Systems and its flagship product, K8, has the knowledge, expertise and proven track-record to fulfil customers' IT requirements, allowing them to focus on their core business issues.
From single- or multi-branch operations, through to 'point-of-sale' showrooms and warehouses; Kerridge Commercial Systems aims to provide a business solution geared, primarily, towards helping customers:
• increase profit potential;
• improve efficiency;
• reduce cost;
• provide superior customer service; and
• gain visibility and control across their organisation.
Ultimately, Kerridge Commercial Systems' K8 solution has been developed to assist customers 'Create Their Business Advantage'.
If you have any queries or would like any further information, please contact:
John McCann
Marketing and PR Manager
Kerridge Commercial Systems
Tel: +44 (0) 1488 688800
Email: john_mccann@kerridgecs.com
