In cooperation with the European association of automotive suppliers (CLEPA), TecCom has developed TecIdentify, the first IT-based standard solution for the automotive branch to check whether parts are genuine. The authenticity can be checked within seconds – worldwide, 24 hours a day.
The solution for managing article and pricing data between suppliers and traders in the automotive part market.
TecCMD makes possible for the first time a standardized electronic exchange of article, price and logistics data among all participants. From a common database the data is complete and correct when it is needed –independent of existing IT and customer structures.
Ten years ago TecCom GmbH was founded at Automechanika, the leading international trade fair for the automotive industry, by twenty leading part manufacturers of the independent automotive aftermarket. In addition to electronic order processing, which has established itself across Europe as an industry standard, TecCom provides suppliers and wholesalers in the independent aftermarket with solutions to optimise the entire supply chain. This year TecCom is showing in Hall 5_6.1 on Stand A 10 how the different software solutions interact in order to achieve the greatest possible efficiency in business processes.
The Collaborative Managed Inventory tool TecCMI was introduced to the French market in January 2009 by GOLDA, the partner of TecCom in France. Didier Longret, Director Business Development Aftermarket Europe from Tenneco, and Alexandre Mandy, Customer Service Manager Aftermarket Europe, explain in this interview why TecCMI is the ideal process and stock optimisation solution.
Traders with TecComfort Order can send inquiries and orders to their suppliers directly from the graphic user interfaces (GUI) of their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Reverse messages are also automatically loaded into the system. The connection using Web services is state-of-the-art technology and makes it easy to program the interface from the ERP system to the TecCom platform.
The Italian company RHIAG S.p.A., the leading automotive replacement part distributor in Italy, has been working together with TecCom for almost ten years on the continuous optimisation of its ordering and stocking processes. With great success: RHIAG saves time and money through efficient work procedures using TecCom solutions. Not to mention that better part availability and faster delivery times provide higher sales and satisfied customers.
The use of electronic invoice processing saves a lot of time and money for both invoice senders and recipients. With TecInvoice Express, TecCom offers a fast solution to send and receive electronic invoices with legally valid signatures requiring no technical effort. The only technical requirement is that the invoice or credit note must be available in PDF format.