Vantage has announced that a 'cutting-edge' direct integration between Vantage Online and Westcoast, has completed final testing and will be available to users within the next few weeks.
With many office equipment, MPS and managed services clients already utilising Westcoast for the procurement, supply and delivery of equipment, parts and consumables, this partnership will give both companies' clients an end-to-end solution that will enable them to save time, reduce costs and improve profitability.
This functionality allows Vantage Online clients to send purchase orders on demand from Vantage Online to Westcoast via the use of the Westcoast API (XML Portal). They will then receive the despatch notifications and other updates, including tracking information. Invoices from Westcoast can then be received directly and made available as supplier invoices within Vantage Online. Work is already underway to further enhance the information shared between these two key components of the shared clients' businesses, with the ongoing aim of ensuring that both Westcoast and Vantage Online remain the choice for industry-specific solutions.
Alex Tatham, Westcoast Managing Director said, "we are pleased to be working with Vantage, and this integration with their market-leading software products will enable our joint customers to achieve significant cost savings and increase efficiency. It allows orders to be placed seamlessly via our bidirectional integration (EDI) and gives resellers full track and trace visibility with full invoice matching to streamline the payment authorisation workflow process."
Tony Milford, Managing Director at Vantage added, "this logical extension of the partnership between Westcoast and Vantage will save our clients huge amounts of time and give them even greater visibility of this essential aspect of their business. We have exciting future plans to extend this partnership and look forward to delivering further enhancements for our clients over the forthcoming months."
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