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K8: The Key to Integrated and Streamlined Supply Chain Management

January 2012

The supply chain process has always been the cornerstone of any successful distribution organisation - effective supply chain management can set a company apart from its competitors. In today's market, it's vitally important that this process also improves efficiency and reduces costs across the business and the right IT platform makes this possible. The market-leading K8 software solution from Kerridge Commercial Systems is the key to integrated and streamlined Supply Chain Management.

Streamline the supply chain for success

January 2012

K8.09 tested and ready to run on Oracle Exadata Database Machine

January 12th 2012. Kerridge Commercial Systems today announced that Kerridge Commercial Systems K8.09 has achieved Oracle Exadata Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).

Today’s announcement demonstrates that Kerridge Commercial Systems has fully tested and supports K8.09 on Oracle Exadata Database Machine. K8 is a fully integrated trading and financial system for distribution, merchant, wholesale/retail sectors.

Update on KCS & TIS integration

January 2012

We are making excellent progress with the integration of TIS and KCS - Kerridge Commercial Systems signs are now in place at the Bourne End office. A key milestone was reached on the 15th December, with the announcement of the new organisation structure for the integrated business. Many staff from Bourne End recently spent a day at Hungerford to meet with their KCS colleagues.

South Africa Customer Conference 2011

November 2011

Using the same theme ‘Forward Thinking’ as the 2011 UK event, the South Africa Customer Conference was held last month in Vanderbijlpark (approx. 50 miles south of Johannesburg. Around 80 customers attended the event with presentations being delivered on a wide range of topics. Given that there is always keen interest in the future of K8, David Liddle, development director, gave the delegates an insight into the plans and functionality roadmap for the coming year which was well received.

October 2011

TIS Software trading as Strategix OneOffice and Global Business Systems, provide ERP solutions specifically designed for the wholesale and retail distribution, logistics and service sectors, and SmartPoint, provide information integration solutions for both the commercial and public sectors.

Kerridge Commercial Systems Ltd specialise in business management solutions to the distribution industry Its core solution, called K8, includes; advanced Sales Order Processing, Purchasing, Rebates, E-Commerce, Finance, Transport Management, Customer Relationship Management and Warehouse Managem

Plumbers Depot

October 2011

Kerridge Commercial Systems are delighted to announce that Plumbers Depot have recently signed as a new customer.

Plumbers Depot, based in South Tottenham, sell an extensive range of plumbing and bathroom products. The company will be implementing K8 to run their successful operation and have opted for the Kerridge Commercial Systems hosted solution (where the server resources are held at the Kerridge Commercial Systems contracted datacentres).

September 2011

Kerridge Commercial Systems is pleased to announce its latest event ‘Your Business at Your Fingertips’, which will take place on Wednesday 30th November, 2011 at the National Motorcycle Museum in the West Midlands. This one day programme will help UK businesses to improve and move forward through the very latest innovations in IT software solutions.

The Forward Thinking Customer Day 2011

June 2011

More than 100 Kerridge Commercial Systems customers and partner organisations attended the company’s 2011 customer day held on June 8th at their offices in Hungerford. This year’s Customer Day, with the theme ‘Forward Thinking’ took the audience through an impressive series of presentations and demonstrations of recent developments, and provided an insight into where the K8 system is headed.

Introducing one of the team - Rob Wells

May 2011

“I joined Kerridge Commercial Systems in 1981 as a member of the support team and following business expansion I took on the role of support manager for both the trading and accounts systems – these were the days of rev 5 and 6! Later I was given the opportunity to use my support experience to work on the development of the Revision 7 product which in essence, became our first fully integrated branch system.

April 2011

In the broadest sense, businesses have used ‘intelligence’ for many years but the expression Business Intelligence or ‘BI’ is more widely known for the computer-based tools that are growing in importance. So what is BI all about, and why is it increasingly significant?

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