Ryder Supply Chooses Distribution Intelligence for Inventory Management and Accounting

Ryder Supply is a trusted name in wholesale farm equipment throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and New Hampshire. The company was founded 45 years ago to serve production agriculture markets: traditional crop farms, dairies, and cattle operations. Since then Ryder’s markets have diversified due to the increase in hobby farms and horse acreages in the northeast, and its customers have become more computer savvy.

To keep up with their customers, owner Ernest Bert, Sr. knew Ryder Supply needed to keep up with technology. The company had a premium accounting system in place; the problem was that it was almost 10 years old.

On a small-business budget, the challenge was finding a system that would meet both the company’s current and future requirements. When Bert learned about Distribution Intelligence at a trade convention, he knew he’d found the answer.

Distribution Intelligence is the affordable solution for wholesale distributors who want to go beyond basic bookkeeping. It integrates all the features of an inventory management system and a premium accounting system into one package to efficiently track and manage inventory, customer history, pricing, contracts, income, and expenses.

Distribution Intelligence met or exceeded every one of Ryder Supply’s requirements. These included:

• a Windows-based interface,
• a feature-rich accounting system,
• tiered pricing support,
• inventory and customer tracking,
• remote access capability,
• and expandability to support future requirements.

“With Distribution Intelligence we can stay ahead of the technology curve,” explained Bert. “It gives us all the functionality we need to improve customer service today, like easy access to product availability, history and customer tracking. Plus, we can take advantage of capabilities like remote access and integrated web-based catalogs when we’re ready.”

Not only is he comfortable with the technology, he’s comfortable with the working relationship he has with the Distribution Intelligence support team as well. “It’s a user-friendly product backed by good people,” Bert concluded.

Distribution Intelligence streamlines invoicing and returns, supports the purchasing and sales cycle end-to-end, allows users to easily share and access information, and integrates smoothly with Catalog Builder software to generate paper, e-mail, PDF, CD-ROM and interactive web catalogs directly from the Distribution Intelligence database. For more information visit www.distributionintelligence.com or call 1-888-786-3487.