subject: Industrial Supply Distributor: Geared Up For The Techno Savvy Business World [print this page] Globalization has paved way for the growth and widespread expansion of industries. However, this poses challenges for the organizations to acquire their industrial and office supplies as per requirement. The success of any organization depends on a number of interrelated factors, such as customer loyalty, customer satisfaction, effective collaboration with stakeholders and efficient supply chain network. Meeting these challenges require a streamlined business management process, which will also boost the organizations bottom line.
The trade services sector has a number of service partners offering sophisticated distribution solutions. These solutions coupled with a deep understanding of the distribution industry, benefits the office supply dealers and industrial supply distributors to deliver valuable business transactions. With technology playing a major role in every sector, the trade services sector is not left behind. The distribution solutions designed and developed by leading trade service providers features the industrys complete database of nearly 230 manufacturers and nearly 1 million items. This helps distributors to prepare contract submittals with current pricing of the products as well as provide for alternatives.
Being a web based software running on simple personal computers, it is easily available to theindustrial supply distributor irrespective of the size of the business, making it feasible to research on product information, look for product alternatives, and provide customer with a customized price lists. Built on the same lines of the automotive parts catalog, the manufacturer catalog pages with high quality pictures of items and helps the customers visiting the distributors web stores to locate products with ease. The text-based and parametric-based product search option enhances customers online buying experience. For the industrial distributor, this enhances the product visibility and paves way for increased revenues.
Further, the software has an inbuilt scheduler that automatically updates the catalog price from the Internet. The flexible format helps it to seamlessly integrate with the business systems, thus providing industrial supplies distributors with immediate access to current and accurate pricing for around 1 million industrial products. The on-demand updates ease the burden of manual updating paves way to reduce costs. The search engine with enhanced features like drill-down look-up methods helps to improve the methods of item list creation and manipulation. Other features that work out beneficial both to the distributor and the clientele include generation of reports pertaining to mew items and price comparison besides the import/export wizard.
The automated process in the trade service industry brings about a significant reduction in time taken for any operation and work handling of the office supply dealers or the industrial supply distributors. Further this helps to easily free the workers for a more interactive an intellectual jobs and providing them with a higher-level job options in development, deployment and maintenance of the automated processes.
