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With
Crik-IT, hundreds of dealers are already trained
and up & running on Crik-IT. When another of
their vendors comes onto Crik-IT, they don't
have to learn a new username & password. They
don't have to learn a new navigational
structure. Dealers simply do not have
time to learn a different system for each of
their suppliers.
Vendors regularly ask us how we get so many
people using Crik-IT on a regular basis.
They tell us about the tens or hundreds of
thousands of dollars they have invested in
building a proprietary portal for their
customers to use, and THEY DON'T USE IT!
Of course they don't! It is unrealistic to
expect dealers to learn a different system for
every one of their suppliers (manufacturers AND
distributors). At best, a dealer will learn the
systems for the top 2 or 3 of their suppliers.
Listen to current Crik-IT users:
“Crik-IT is a very useful tool. There are a
couple of other tools provided by vendors, but
we’re not using them. If more vendors got onto
Crik-IT, then all information would be in one
location. If you have 6 manufacturers, it’s all
there with one login. If you know how to use
the system for one vendor, you know for all.”
“[With more vendors on Crik-IT] then there is
one less thing for employees to learn. Lowe’s
uses all the same type of forklift so they don’t
have to train employees in different machines.”
“Getting more vendors onto Crik-IT would be
quite beneficial. It would save time hunting
down phone numbers for the vendor, then placing
a call to try to figure out in-stock inventory.
Instead, I could pull up Crik-IT, plug the part
number in, and see whether it is in-stock.” |
