The UK vehicle parc is rapidly approaching 26 million vehicles. Over half of these vehicles are serviced and repaired by independent repairers. It is estimated that the repairers spend over £5 billion each year on parts procurement with their suppliers. In turn these suppliers, typically motor distributors, buy their stocks from manufacturers. It is this complex supply chain, with its mainly manual and high cost processes, that eparts with its broad functionality addresses.
eparts is a trading exchange designed specifically for the requirements of the automotive parts aftermarket. The core function of eparts allows all participants in the market to use a single interface of their choosing for supply chain execution (purchase to pay). The whole of the purchase to pay cycle is transacted electronically on eparts: purchase order through to remittance. eparts has already integrated the major industry ERP systems for distributors and manufacturer suppliers.
ABS was first established in 1988 and has been providing system-to-system integration solutions over the web since 1996. Our approach is based on working with the way people do business, rather than expecting people to adapt their business to technology. Today, we have a reputation for technical excellence and through a combination of our platform tradesimple and our own online market places such as eparts and Corridor for the retail furnishing industry, a very bright future is in store.
At the heart of ABS' success, and any e-business solution we provide is tradesimple. tradesimple does “exactly what it says on the tin” – it helps complex, widely distributed supply chains to do business more simply. tradesimple enables secure many–to-many document exchange across the Internet and other networks, and provides a platform for a range of applications.