Stilling reduces costs in their auto-parts stores with AGR

Stilling is a service orientated company and emphasizes professionalism. They constantly seek ways to increase the quality of service provided to customers. Simply having products on stock is not enough; the goal is to have exactly the right amount available at the right time. To achieve this, store managers were spending too much time on the purchasing process. Orders were being placed up to 2 or 3 times each day leading to far too high distribution costs. Stilling wanted to introduce more automation to the purchasing process to reduce their distribution costs and workload produced by product ordering. Increasing efficiency in inventory management, lowering stock levels, and increasing stock turnover ratios were also important factors.

Their current ERP system, the AS400 is good at simplifying and synchronizing multiple tasks throughout the organization. After viewing an introduction from AGR, Stilling realized that their ERP system could not solve their inventory management issues to the same extent as the AGR solution. After doing a requirements analysis with AGR, a process was designed to address the specific needs and problems facing Stilling.