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Activant

Activant Solutions Inc. is a leading technology provider of business management solutions serving small and medium-sized businesses in four primary vertical markets: hardware and home center, lumber and building materials, the automotive parts aftermarket and wholesale distribution. Founded in 1972, Activant provides customers with tailored proprietary software, professional services, content, supply chain connectivity, and analytics. Over 23,000 customer locations use Activant to manage their day-to-day operations. Activant's systems are designed to help customers increase sales, boost productivity, operate more cost-efficiently, improve inventory turns and enhance trading partner relationships. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Activant has operations in California, Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Contact us at www.activant.com or (800) 678-5266.

Activant Solutions - Wholesale Distribution Group

Activant provides technology solutions and services to more than 4,200 wholesale distributors throughout North America. A leading technology provider for the distribution industry, Activant develops comprehensive enterprise software solutions to help distributors improve customer service and maximize the return on their technology investment. In addition, the company offers an Internet trading network that expedites sourcing, expands geographic reach, and streamlines transactions between distributors and manufacturers. Find out more at http://distribution.activant.com.

DATAgility

DATAgility, a leading data management services provider, helps suppliers and their data receivers achieve and maintain quality data. Quality and accurate data is one of the single most important issues facing suppliers and data receivers today. Through recent technology advances, a global focus, and the adoption of data related standards-companies are beginning to realize the benefits of quality data flowing throughout the entire supply chain.

Here is a brief overview of our services:

• Data Governance - Effective Data Governance is built on organization, policies, systems and standards. It is an enterprise-wide data management initiative to control how organizations permit and govern access to product master data.
• Data Quality - Quality product data needs to be timely, complete, accurate, standardized, synchronized, and easy to use. DATAgility helps suppliers achieve each of the vital data quality metrics.
• Data Sync - Product data matching and alignment is an essential foundation for all e-commerce applications, and usually represents a formidable challenge. Recent evidence in the industry shows substantial cost savings, but more significantly, proof of huge increased sales opportunities.

Let us show you how - "Quality Data Sells More Products!"™

For more information, please contact Angela Baraks @ 815-623-7810 or email: abaraks@datagility.com or info@datagility.com. To learn more about our services, please visit: www.datagility.com

Infor

More than 9,000 pure distributors—from small and medium-sized firms to some of the largest distribution companies in the world—rely on Infor’s distribution solutions to be more enterprising. Backed by domain experts who understand the requirements of distributors, Infor Distribution Essentials help companies manage increasingly complex products and product offerings, increase the productivity of your inventory, reduce operating costs, enhance customer satisfaction, and improve agility and supply chain performance.

Infor Distribution Essentials serves distributors in a number of key vertical industries—BMAT, electrical, industrial, janitorial, fine paper, and PHVAC— and provides business-specific functionality across order management, demand forecasting and visibility, core materials management, financial transactions, job management, multi-site environments, and sales operations. In addition, Infor offers a full complement of extended applications to assist distributors with supply chain management, enterprise asset management, customer relationship management, and corporate performance management. Find out more at www.infor.com.

Sterling Commerce

Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), helps customers thrive in a global economy by connecting their business communities, processes, people and technology. More than 30,000 customers worldwide – including 80 percent of the Fortune 500 – use Sterling Commerce solutions for business process integration, multi-channel selling, and supply chain fulfillment to improve profitability inside and outside their company walls.

Unilog Content Solutions

Unilog is India’s leading catalog management and data cleansing company. Unilog employs over 200 people, is ISO 9001:2000 certified and supports customers in North & South America, Europe and Asia. Unilog provides Classification, Cleansing, Attribute Extraction and Enrichment services for all major industry verticals. Unilog has excellent relationships with most PIM / ERP and SCM implementation companies and can be your one-stop-shop for all data needs.

dataZen

dataZen is the only company in the electrical industry fusing the art of photography and technology with process engineering whether it is Six sigma, ISO 9001 at core manufacturing or Rational Unified Process (RUP) at the business process application development

dataZen is well versed in GS1 Product Image Specifications and that relates to Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) implementation in retail industry. That means, not just taking product pictures but how to implement or create GTIN based on UPC codes, create Product Dimensions such as length, width, height, weight towards building a signature application to guarantee your enriched data including long descriptions

Element Five Solutions

Element Five Solutions (EFS) specializes in SAP solutions for small and medium sized enterprises within the hi-tech industry. EFS Focus solutions address the requirements for component manufacturers and wholesale distributors. The solution uses pre-configured industry templates to offer rapid deployment in a fixed cost and time.

EFS also provides business intelligence solutions to make intelligent and timely decisions in this ever changing environment. Their portfolio includes application management and support services to help reduce the total cost of ownership and increase productivity.

Endeca

Endeca's information access software helps people to search, analyze, and explore complex information. The Endeca for B2B eCommerce solution helps distributors to increase online sales by making it easy for customers to find the best product based on their specific requirements. The solution integrates search, Guided Navigation, merchandising, and custom catalog capabilities to deliver a personalized experience to each customer. This is why companies such as Home Depot, Fastenal, and Newark use Endeca to power their online catalogs.

epaCUBE

The epaCUBE software suite is a product repository for all the catalog, warehouse stock and non-stock products in your transaction system. Load IDW data feeds and vendor cost/info change files into epaCUBE and evaluate the impact of vendor cost and product information changes on your cost, price, and gross profit structures before sending into production. Perform mass updates on your product file to optimize costs, prices, and all aspects of general product information. Clean up your Product Master at any level! Run an Impact Analysis to see how any proposed changes affect your pricing records and profit margins; set up a What-if scenario and figure out how to optimize your gross profit regarding the products and changes in question.

Faxinating Solutions

Since 1992, FSI has been providing pay-per-use, transaction translation to and from EDI and any other data format. What do you do with faxed POs and invoices? Especially if you’re EDI-compliant? FSI’s automated FAX-to-EDI, using OCR/ICR technology, EDI-to-FAX, exAct© software with data import, catalogue software, web-based input, customized integration and outsourcing solutions allow your suppliers and your customers to become electronic trading partners, with everybody’s budget and technology intact.

LG CNS

LG CNS, a SEI CMM Level 5 and ISO:9001 certified global software solutions and services provider, is an end-to-end product content lifecycle management services and solutions company providing a full suite of enterprise data services and solutions ranging from consulting, product content creation and cleansing, product content enrichment, migration and publishing, Data / Content Integration & Consolidation, Master Data Management, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Web Analysis. We are assisting global manufacturers, distributors, suppliers and retailers across MRO, Electronics, Healthcare, Retail and the Automotive verticals and transform their product content / information to be e-commerce ready.

Material Express

Material Express was founded by a team of experts in the field of electrical construction, software development, and information services. The executive team of Material Express has over 50 years of experience in the development and production of products for the distribution market. Our charter calls for the creation and marketing of high quality, yet affordably priced, software and information services for the electrical distribution industry. We also focus our expertise and resources in support of the advancement of the electrical distribution industry by actively cooperating with its leading organizations.

TechniCon Systems, Inc

TechniCon’s CustomCommerce platform allows manufacturers and distributors to streamline the selection, configuration and sale of complex products.

CustomCommerce supports online catalogs and quote systems that incorporate extensive search, configuration, assembly and layout solutions. On-demand documentation tools generate accurate CAD models, drawings, product schedules and specifications.

The training and time required to specify products is dramatically reduced. Customers, sales and marketing staff collaborate more easily to improve customer satisfaction. Demand is shaped toward more profitable products.

Tour de Force

The only CRM & Sales Force Automation Solution that seamlessly integrates to your business system. Businesses have been asking for full featured CRM and SFA functionality for a long time. Don’t be fooled by vaporware and false promises. The Tour de Force solution delivers extensive CRM and SFA functionality as well as unparalleled integration with your business system. Again, a real solution that has been working for over eight years for thousands of happy users.

Unilog Content Solutions

Unilog is India’s leading catalog management and data cleansing company. Unilog employs over 200 people, is ISO 9001:2000 certified and supports customers in North & South America, Europe and Asia. Unilog provides Classification, Cleansing, Attribute Extraction and Enrichment services for all major industry verticals. Unilog has excellent relationships with most PIM / ERP and SCM implementation companies and can be your one-stop-shop for all data needs.