Technology Solutions
We can help you save time and money by consolidating purchases online, automating processes, lowering costs and increasing procurement control. We offer a wide range of solutions to help you run your business efficiently and cost-effectively.
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Third Party Procurement Partners | Ferguson Direct Integration |
FREE website offers advanced features to help you find and order products fast:
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Use Ferguson procurement solutions to manage your procurement process
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Integrate existing technology to reduce costs and speed processing:
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Ferguson Online
- A FREE web site that gives you real-time 24/7 access to account information, product details and availability, and the ability to create quotes and orders. Click here for more details or to register.
- Psion NEO scan gun users:
- Download the Transfer Program
- View the User Guide
Third Party Procurement Partners
- eCatalog Partnerships
- Electronic Catalog Solutions & portals provide data to support customer-specific electronic catalogs
- Third Party Vendors:
- Ariba, Perfect Commerce, GSA Advantage, Ketera and SciQuest.
Ferguson Direct Integration
- EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
- Electronic exchange of information between two businesses via any electronic messaging service, such as network or the internet.
- The data is transferred electronically, quickly and efficiently. EDI offers advantages that can help a business operate and keep ahead of its competition.
- Over 10 years of EDI experience
- We use EDI with over 523 trading partners of which include vendors, customers, carriers and banks.
- We exchange Purchase Orders, invoices and more.
- ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
- Allows customers to trade electronic documents (purchase orders, acknowledgements, invoices, etc.) with Ferguson associates.
- Customers can submit purchase orders to Ferguson from their system and Ferguson can then create the order.
- Typically uses XML
- CIM (Customer Inventory/Order Management Services)
- Software uses customized handheld scanners (i.e., Palm) to scan bar-coded bin labels and enter order quantities or cycle counts.
- A customer Software uses customized handheld scanners (i.e., Palm) to scan bar-coded bin labels and enter order quantities or cycle counts.
- The Ferguson sales associate transfers the order data via a cradle device or modem. Once the data is transferred, it is used to replenish the customer's inventory.
Contact Us
For more information on any of these solutions, please contact Technology.Solutions@ferguson.com.
