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North Yorkshire Timber | Rembrand Timber | Hopping Softwood Products | G.E. Robinson

North Yorkshire Timber - Smooth Operation

The secret to operating a successful multi-branch builders merchants is knowing stock availability at different locations and keeping an accurate account of the movement of materials between branches. Above all, the company needs to know what materials are dispatched, where they are taken from and where they are received with company records updated immediately to safeguard the integrity of stock information at the point of sale.

Sixteen years ago North Yorkshire Timber (NYT) decided to expand from a single site to become a multi-branch timber and light-side builders merchant. Then around four years ago decided to restructure to provide centralised distribution. Today the company has six thriving branches.

NYT realised it needed a new system that would automate inter-branch trading, save time and reduce the amount of paper transactions to achieve this. For example - eliminate the need for inter-branch orders when creating orders for the customers. The future system would need to be highly flexible and scalable since the company is actively seeking more sites. The ability to transfer goods and track deliveries whilst simultaneously updating the ledgers was the priority. STRIP5 Trading provided the ideal solution from Ten-25 Software. NYT choose Ten-25 because of its deep knowledge of the timber merchants sector as offering a system that offered significant advances...

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