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Who
uses FourChain?
Business
to business IT resellers from coast to coast who
embrace an e-Business strategy have adopted
FourChain to enable their supply-chain automation.
They range from successful, multi-location VARBusinessรค 500 resellers, to small start-ups
seeking a competitive edge.
Reseller
customers include Fortune 500 clients, major
universities, government accounts, and businesses of
all sizes. |
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IT Reseller/VAR Features |
Developed specifically for the information technology (IT) product reseller channel by reseller/distribution industry pros with 20+ years of first-hand experience, FourChain works with you to provide a common interface to product information and pricing from a wide variety of sources, including your own. This allows you to provide your customers with a single system to help them manage their IT procurement, with you as the supplier!
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Price and Availability - multi-distributor simultaneously via nightly downloads and/or Real-Time access. |
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Handles product specs and tech notes in a uniform manner. |
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Utilizes industry standard product classifications. |
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Manages rebate and special pricing, such as TOSS and Big Deal.
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Enables customer product requestors to share quotes and orders to solve real-life customer issues common to IT procurement.
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Works with these top distributors, and more...
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Other features you'll appreciate...
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Unlimited, customer specific fields for capturing IT specific information such as configuration instructions, asset tag #'s, customer budget codes, etc.
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Ability to include/exclude distributor SKUs related to government, education, foreign country, or other special groups.
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Complete customization of line item product descriptions to make them easier for your customer to decipher. |
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Handles
multiple reseller sales office locations |
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Features
your sales team will appreciate...
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7x24 Web access - enables quoting, ordering, order
history access any time from anywhere!
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Complete flexibility to display or collect any
information required for each customer (and only
that customer) via the unlimited customer-specific
store-sites and unlimited, customer-specific custom
fields. |
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Real-time Activity Summary screen gives up-to-the
minute status of quotes and orders, margin dollars,
and margin % for the month-to-date or any time
frame. |
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Customer account-sharing enables controlled access
to customer quotes, orders and history for sales
teams and workgroups. |
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We understand your business...
As an IT reseller you are on the front lines of a very dynamic and competitive industry. Success depends on more than luck or wishful thinking. It takes great customer solutions, supported by a sales and service infrastructure that truly delivers.
The principals behind Ingeniasoft and the FourChain solution understand your challenges, having owned and managed a
successful VAR operation. Much of our growth and success
as a VAR can be attributed to the early emphasis placed upon having state-of-the-art systems in place to automate the sales process.
FourChain is the result of many years of application development and refinement, much of which was implemented based upon the first-hand experiences working with customers, distributors and manufacturers in the IT industry.
FourChain continues to evolve based upon the real-world feedback from our existing VAR clients, as well as our constant monitoring of the IT industry.
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FourChain has been built using industry leading Microsoft technology, allowing
straight-forward integration to other systems.
Utilizing
Microsoft SQL database and IIS technology,
FourChain can scale up to any reseller
requirement.
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