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The advent of globalization has brought about changes in the logistics and distribution industry. Today, the customers world-wide are demanding more delivery of machinery, equipment and supplies in shorter time span. The distributors and suppliers must thus gear up to operate efficiently while adhering to the global regulations and adapting to various languages. The distributors are expected to cut costs while maintaining exceptional service in order to keep customers satisfied.

The Industrial supply distributors handle the sale of various products used in the industries. These range from plumbing products such as tools, pipe, and valve fittings, fluid handling equipment, electrical products, pumps, motors, fasteners, and other instruments as well as safety and cleaning equipment used for maintenance, repair, operations, and production. The industrial supply distributor and wholesaler is involved in inventory management, order fulfillment and delivery, billing and collection.

Today, with globalization and increasing customer demands, industrial supplies distributor are faced with changes of managing large proliferation of products through complex supply chains. Further with offshore resources creating longer and stringent lead times along with shorter product life cycles, the products face an increasing obsolescence risk. Moreover, they also need to keep track of the complex pricing structures of the wide range of products handled. Providing value-added services and transparency across the supply chain with access to real-time information will give them a competitive edge.

The leading trade service organizations have designed and developed software to help in these industrial supply distributors through this problem. Like the electrical estimation software, the TRA-SER® Platinum industrial supplies distribution software will help to meet the customer and supplier sourcing needs in an effective manner. The software with a material pricing database of a large number of industrial items from more than 230 manufacturers, gives the industrial distributor an insight into the varied pricing structures. Besides, the software provides the user with descriptions and attributed features for easier product search and recognition.

Similar to the automotive products catalog in digital format, the TRA-SER® Platinum also provides for high quality color pictures of items and manufacturer-wise catalog for the industrial supply distributor. Equipped with an automated internet price updating scheduler and enhanced search engine makes it easier to look of for industrial supplies from any location. With additional features such as ability to create reports a comparative price charts for new items, and advanced import export wizard provides better product information, while reducing on man-hours spend in researching, helps in find product alternates thus facilitating easier preparation of contract submittals and customized price list.