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KERRIDGE COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS CONNECTS DIGITIZATION
AND SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES Kerridge Commercial Systems brought over four hundred delegates to its first live event since the pandemic to focus on the company’s latest digital solutions. Fiona Russell Horne went along to find out more.
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igitisation, sustainability and profitability do go hand in hand, according to James Mitchell, Managing Director of Kerridge Commercial Systems (KCS), opening the company’s Konnect event in Stratford-upon-Avon. “Over the course of the next two days, we would like to share initiatives with you that can significantly help your business reduce its carbon footprint, while delivering greater efficiencies and cost savings and helping you grow your profits,” he said.
“Our role here is to help our customers to digitise and then through
that hopefully become more sustainable and more profitable. The definition of digitisation that comes from the dictionary is ‘extending the reach of current business management systems to go through processes that aren’t digitised and move them’. Of course, at Kerridge Commercial Systems, we have been doing this for years. Why? It’s not just about freeing up resources, about making efficiencies in the business by using those resources elsewhere. That might be an outcome certainly, but it’s not the end goal. What is the end goal is to make the business more efficient.”
“We recognise that our customers need our support as they work to deliver their carbon reduction strategies, and we are proud to develop and to showcase solutions that can help,” he added. “Our EasyAP solution, for example, enables customers to automate their Accounts Payable processes and to remove paper, filing and storage. They can extract invoices from email, import and match, and electronically file an image of the supplier invoice. This innovation removes paper and printing, which means there’s no storage and results in a more efficient administration process.” “Digitisation is not a scary word or strategy for our customers,” Mitchell said. “It’s a journey that many of them have been on for some time. Our customers were early adopters of our cloud technology as a means to outsource their IT infrastructure and reduce their energy consumption. They have been using hand-held technologies to improve efficiencies but, up to now, the high hardware costs have always been a barrier to adoption. However, the emergence of new digital technologies has enabled us to harness the power of cloud computing to deliver cost-effective solutions into areas of the business that staff members manually controlled in the past.
“This change enables them to greatly enhance efficiencies and grow profits whilst removing much paper, ink and energy waste that results in a significant carbon footprint. However, it doesn’t stop there. At Kerridge Commercial Systems we are committed to delivering even more over the coming months, and it’s been fantastic to see how our customers are embracing this next generation of technology, and putting it to use for all of our benefits. Digitisation, sustainability and profitability truly do go hand in hand.”
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During the two-day event, KCS staff conducted in-depth demonstrations and workshops on the company’s latest mobile and web solutions, including a range of intuitive apps that deliver their customers’ efficiencies in all aspects of warehousing and operation management. In addition, KCS showcased many partner solutions, such as their relationship with Phocas, an integrated BI platform that delivers real intelligence from the rich data held within KCS ERP solutions. They also took the opportunity to announce their partnership with the EFT solutions from Dojo and WorldPay for electronic payments, as well as the robotic process automation tools from Apollo that enable everyday tasks to be automated.
The company also unveiled many initiatives to deliver key benefits to all industries where its customers operate. For example, its new Konnect Online platform will enable KCS to quickly develop and deliver partner solutions that can be made available across all of its markets and core products. This approach underlies the company’s strategy of offering its customers best-of-breed digital products that complement its core business solutions. As market leaders in their specialism, KCS concentrates on developing core ERP solutions that deliver on their commitment to helping their customers embrace their carbon reduction targets and provide improved performance without compromising profits.
KCS also delivered updates to customers on the latest web strategies available. Customers can choose integrated B2B or B2C web trading products to quickly implement into their business to support their ecommerce strategies, together with a range of sophisticated tools that enable a customer to forge strong integrations with their customers and suppliers. BMJ
www.buildersmerchantsjournal.net April 2023
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