Kerridge CS - UK

Kerridge Commercial Systems provides advanced, fully integrated systems to the distribution industry – serving and integrating business processes of wholesalers, merchants, distributors, and trade and retail enterprises.

Through its 35 years of experience, Kerridge Commercial Systems has built up an immense class-leading depth of industry knowledge and expertise of business processes of builders and plumbing merchants, distributors of electrical, industrial or automotive parts. We develop our solutions through a long and close partnership with our customers in order to incorporate the most complex processes in a simple and effective manner, while endorsing business practices and specificities.

KCS invests each year over 7500 days in Research & development adding new functionalities and incorporating the latest technological developments. Our user group plays a key role in defining and prioritising the latest features to be incorporated into the product.

Kerridge Commercial Systems offers with K8 a modern and flexible solution responding to the needs of the trade from a simple Point of Sale to multinational operations. K8 is designed to meet all types of transaction environment sales counters, epos, self-service showrooms, telesales, field sales, on-line trading and inter-branch operations. With real-time information instantly available customers can be serviced in response to enquiries, quotation requests, purchasing and product information.

• Sales Order Processing
  Supply chain – Enquiries – Pricing – Quotations – Orders – Despatch – Inter-branch – Third party processing

• Purchasing
  Forecasting – ordering – receipting and invoice matching – import and multi-currency – contract buying terms

• Stock Managements
  Process control and analysis – Bin management – Stock checking – Batch and serial numbering – Barcoding

• Warehouse Management
  Goods in – Put away – Picking – Workflow – Branch stock – Hand held devices – Labelling

• Transport Management
  Sales order integration – Customer preferences – Routes – Vehicles – Pick – Loading – Documentation – 3rd Party

• Contact Relationship Management (CRM)
  Record/access communications – Quotations – Events – Opportunities – Campaigns – Performance measurement

• Financials – General Ledger
  Receivables – Payables – Cash book – Fixed assets – Management accounts

• Business Intelligence
  KPI reporting – Advanced analysis tools – Workplace displays – Snapshot trading dashboards – User favourites

• K8 Data Warehouse
  Trend analysis – Financial forecasting – Data mining – extract, transform, load data from disparate systems

• Ecommerce – Web Integration
  Product Information – Stock availability – Ordering – Order tracking – Documentation retrieval

• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  Sales and purchase orders & acknowledgements – Dispatch/advice notes – sales invoices/credit notes – Statements – Remittance advices – Purchase invoices/credit notes

• Mobile Technologies
  Smart phone applications – Laptop access – Virtual private network services

• 3rd Party Integration
  CAD – Third party catalogues – Courier services – Credit card processing – Bank systems – Microsoft Office

• Electronic Forms
  Laser-printed documentation – Fax output – SMS formats – cheque printing – archive printing

• Telephony Integration
  Automatic click-to-dial – caller information pre-populated on in-bound calls – Call recording – Management information

Contact us now for a free, no-obligation consultation with one of our business experts.

K8 is a system for today – the right tool at the right time - able to handle the increasing demands on business in every area and ready to support the needs for growth, expansion and development.

Kerridge Commercial Systems is totally focused on providing class-leading solutions which meet each customer’s business requirements. To maximise the value of every opportunity, or to overcome particular challenges, the company strives to form and maintain trusted, forward thinking partnerships with every customer. Engagement is fostered at every stage, listening and learning about specific business needs are essential elements and then to ensure that the delivery is aligned with expectations.