Why use eparts?

The answer is simple. Using eparts saves your company time, reduces wasted effort and drives down the cost of dealing with your trading partners, all of which has a positive effect on your bottom line, making your company more profitable and giving valuable competitive advantage in a highly competitive market. Electronic trading is becoming more commonplace, but setting up and maintaining multiple electronic trading relationships with different organisations who use different systems is a complex, costly, resource intensive task that many organisations in the UK Parts Aftermarket do not have the time, money or resource to invest in.

eparts is designed to provide a low risk, cost effective solution to the problem. Buyers and suppliers of all sizes use eparts as a single, managed, electronic connection into a trading exchange with access to multiple trading partners. eparts integrates with any system, using any message format or communication protocol. Joining the eparts trading community is simple – there is no software or hardware to buy. All that is required is internet access to send and receive messages - eparts manages the complexity of dealing with multiple trading partners for you.

Our fully integrated, electronic purchase-to-pay transaction service manages all of these documents:

• Purchase Orders are sent to the supplier
• Order Acknowledgements are received by the buyer, detailing availability of each line item.
• Delivery Notes are sent to the buyer at the time of dispatch
• Goods Received Notes can be sent back to suppliers to advise of discrepancies
• Invoices are transmitted to the buyer
• Credit Notes can also be sent
• Remittance Advice completes the transaction.

As a Motor Factor, Ask yourself these questions:

• Do we know if our suppliers can deliver us everything we need in time or if we will need to re-source?
• How can we find out whether a part is due to arrive in two hours or two days?
• How can we speed up the ‘Goods In’ process and book parts into stock more quickly?

eparts can solve all these issues; our customers tell you how

“…shortly after sending the order, we receive an electronic Order Acknowledgement from eparts that displays all shortages by quantity and by line item. This means we can then decide if we need to raise another order with another supplier, or if we can wait…

…before eparts, we only knew the goods were dispatched when they turned up. Now we receive electronic Delivery Notes at the point of dispatch from the supplier, so we know that parts are on their way before they arrive, which helps us give our customers better information…”

Director, Allparts Automotive Limited

“…we’re seeing enormous benefits from the receipt of electronic Order Acknowledgements and Delivery Notes. In the case of one of our major suppliers we have seen the time taken to put a delivery away cut by 75% of the time it previously took. When these time savings are then added up across all our major suppliers and as we have 33 depots then it is quite obvious where the benefits of eparts come from for us!”

IT Manager, Andrew Page Ltd