Tool-SuiteforACES

Time to market is rule #1 for profitability—as important to your business as appropriate product offerings, an effective supply chain and a firm grip on company financials. While ERP systems can manage these other aspects of your business, without accurate data and a convenient way to use it, you cannot quickly get your products to market.

We developed the OPUS Tools for ACES for our Automotive After Market customers who needed a better way to put the knowledge they had accumulated over the years into their business software so that it could be put to good use!

The Opus Encoding Tool for ACES helps users encode their inventory parts with ACES clasification standards as well as identify their application (YR, MK, MD). With the Opus Marketing Catalog for ACES, users then have that data at hand for use or revision in a variety of ways. Benefits include the ability to:

  • Create links between products via a logical tree
  • Use filtered views to create highly customized marketing catalogs
  • Run specials for a single month or single car make (any combination of data!) quickly
  • Create groupings of products and retrieve that product data for use on your website with just a few clicks of the mouse

Opus Encoding Tool for ACES

The Opus Encoding Tool for ACES is easy to use and simple to master. Use the OPUS Encoding Tool for ACES to systematically classify cars and car parts. Checkboxes help users to populate catalog data. The logical data inputs eliminate data redundancies and facilitate easy revision and maintenance. The database structure also autosaves to protect against data loss.

Take advantage of your existing knowledge—you’re familiar with the parts and know what you need to do—this convenient tool will help you meet ACES without a time-consuming learning curve so that you can seamlessly implement ACES. Use ACES automobile definitions in conjunction with the Opus Marketing Catalog Tool for ACES to expand how you use your product data.

Opus Marketing Catalog Tool for ACES

With the Opus Marketing Catalog for ACES, you can create monthly or seasonal catalogs. You can also create magazines at the topmost level of the hierarchy to break out a specific make or model to position your top-sellers. Define your magazines and then categorize your filters to classify data as you input it! Rapidly update your eCommerce site to speed time to market using SouthWare’s SouthWare NetLink.

The Opus Marketing Catalog for ACES will save hundreds of hours of manual labor and frustration. It gives SouthWare users a more convenient and modern tool to manage your marketing catalog and greatly expands this invaluable area of SouthWare. The Opus Marketing Catalog for ACES will also speed time to market: quickly get a part into the system and then display it on your website!

Sell Your Parts Online

parts-on-website-250With OPUS' integrated solutions, you don't have to maintain a separate databases for your e-commerce site anymore-the data is pulled directly from your ERP system! When a customer places an order it's made directly into your system. No more double entry! Customers can:

  • Browse and buy
  • Make payments
  • Update their information