Service Providers
SERVICE PROVIDERS
The companies listed below were exhibitors at the 2011 NCMA conference. They are all subscribers to the AAIA Electronic Catalog Standards. They possess expertise in catalog database management in addition to their unique specialties. They are valuable resources for others subscribers of the AAIA Standards to use in building or converting an Electronic Catalog Database.
Epicor (formerly Activant Solutions)
7683 Southfront Road
Livermore, CA 94551
Phone 925-606-2110
Fax (512) 330-9273
E-mail: robjones@epicor.com
Web: www.epicor.com
Contact: Rob Jones
Epicor's Data Mapping Services allow aftermarket businesses to achieve competitive advantage through rapid availability of parts information. The company's expanded services include exclusive in-house data mapping and conversion to the AAIA ACES standard via Winsby Group's proven ACEMapper technology. Contact Rob Jones at 925-606-2110 or robjones@epicor.com for manufacturer services information.
Autology Data Management Group
P.O. Box 521416
Salt Lake City, UT 84152
Phone: (801)949-4645
E-mail: info@autologydata.com
Web site: www.autologydata.com
With an unprecedented focus on integrity, Autology Data Management Group offers a variety of state of the art electronic catalog database management solutions which include: data mapping, data entry, database creation and conversion, QA and omission reports, and assistance with file submissions and assessments. Formats include, but are not limited to: ACES, Legacy, Amazon ACES, NAPA Parts Pro, and all PIES formats.
Chrome Systems
700 NE Multnomah St, 15th Floor
Portland, OR 97232
Toll Free: (800) 936-8906
Web site: www.chrome.com
Email: sean.taylor@chrome.com
Contact: Sean Taylor, Sr. Product Manager
Chrome provides a data mapping product that leverages standardized vehicle descriptions to streamline and improve the accuracy of mapping between Chrome Style IDs- a unique identifier for every vehicle style down to the trim level- and ACES.
The new Chrome ACES Mapping product can be used on its own or integrated with Chrome’s Automotive Description Service (ADS) to enable users to enter a VIN and retrieve Chrome Style IDs and corresponding ACES IDs to easily match the right vehicle to the right part.
Data Reproductions Corp
4545 Glenmeade Lane
Auburn Hills, MI 48326
Phone: (248) 371-3700
Fax: (248) 371-3710
Email: solko@datarepro.com
Contact: Steve Olko
In business since 1967, we combine the latest technology and superior customer service to provide premier quality book products. From 4 page price books to 2,200 page catalogs, Data Reproduction has the people, equipment and know how to produce them all. We have a state of the art pre-press, Sheet-fed and heat set web press' and Complete bindery. Every step of the production process is performed in-house to ensure quality, while keeping our main focus on a completely satisfied customer!
Dirxion, LLC
1859 Bowles Avenue, Suite 100
St. Louis, MO 63026
Phone: 636.717.2368
Email: larry.ball@dirxion.com
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Contact: Larry Ball
Dirxion is transforming the way people access printed information by providing cost-effective digital publishing solutions that leverage and optimize print online from multiple platforms.
We pioneered the notion that technology and print could unite to form a dynamic and effective medium for publishers of all kinds: Digital Publications. Our economical and environmentally-friendly digital catalog solution transforms your existing catalog into a virtual marketing tool that’s easy to share, easy to search and available on demand! Our product is an exact replica of your print in a user-friendly, fully searchable interface that operates in all browsers and does not require any download or software to run. This solution is a perfect opportunity for offering a dual print digital strategy that cost-effectively adds value for your readers and advertisers alike.
Global Parts Finder
A Division of Piper Communications, Inc.
P.O. Box 12018
Newport Beach, CA
Contact Name: Jordan Piper
Phone: (949) 433-2789
Fax: (877) 570-6334
Email: Jordan@pipercom.com
Global Parts Finder Online Catalog and Search Engine (GPF) offers you the complete online data management and sales solution allowing you to manage your data in an AAIA ACES 3.0 format. Your data base can be easily uploaded from most any format (legacy, TecDoc and other proprietary data bases as well as excel, access, text, zip, etc) and within minutes you will have control over a data base with all the tools needed to update application information, by year, make and model. GPF saves you thousands of hours of updating, cataloging and editing so you can spend the time to manage your business. The GPF Catalog can be easily branded with your logos, pictures and colors providing a powerful interface with your database. New parts, pricing, weights and measures, pictures, etc. are easily and quickly updated and ready for sale the next day in the GPF Catalog. The GPF Online Catalog includes a “search quick” tool bar that mirrors a “Google search”, in addition to the traditional drill down logic used by most catalogs. Call today to learn how GPF can help you with your data management and sales needs!
Illumaware
104 s. White Street, Suite 210
Wake Forest, NC 27588
919.341.1650 PHONE
919.882.9447 FAX
Ralph.bowen@illumaware.com
www.illumaware.com
Contact: Ralph Bowen, VP Business Development
Illumaware offers Evokat 2.5, a web-based data-authoring tool to aftermarket suppliers that need to send out ACES and PIES compliant data to retailers, resellers or distributors in a specific format. Evokat validates each supplier’s data against the latest AAIA standards every month to ensure continuous compliance. Suppliers own and control their own ACES and PIES data with Evokat.
Evokat’s Analyze My Catalog feature identifies conflicts, invalid records, and vehicle application coverage holes by category for Supplier Catalog Managers to repair, rather than send the data out to a third party and wait for it to be returned.
Illumaware also offers MyCarParts, a real time customer facing year, make and model lookup imbedded in the supplier’s own website. ACES to Print Application and Buyers Guides can be downloaded in a PDF format from Evokat’s Report Library with a supplier’s most up-to-date data and sent out on demand. In addition, Illumaware develops custom cataloging solutions.
Innovative Logic Corporation
5 Willow Lane
Smiths Falls
Ontario Canada K7A 4S5
Phone: 613-284-0647
Fax: 613-284-8205
Web: www.InnovativeLogic.com
E-mail: info@innovativelogic.com
Contact: Chris Babcock, President
Innovative Logic has been a leading provider of catalog management solutions since 1997. Specializing in catalog management and mapping, Innovative Logic solutions deliver some of the highest accuracy rates and fastest turn around of data in the industry today: ILC’s PartSmart All-In-One allows manufacturers to publish electronic and print-ready catalogs directly from the database. PartSmart also offers full mapping capability including auto mapping of some Legacy to ACES and report generation including Overlaps. PartSmart standards include AIAA Legacy, ACES, PIES, NAPA and Advance Auto Parts. ILC’s data utilities and services include data mapping to all industry standards, mapping validation, data entry, database setup, database maintenance, database hosting, data clean up and reporting, catalog creation, electronic catalog publishing, eCommerce websites and consulting services.
JNPSoft, Inc.
400 Atlantic Ave; Suite 1-105
Outremont, Quebec
H2V 1A5
Phone: (514) 212-5564
Fax: (514) 858-9994
E-mail: ndicenso@jnpsoft.com
Web site: www.jnpsoft.com
Contact: Nat Di Censo, President
JNPSoft is a leading provider of cataloging solutions to the Automotive Aftermarket Industry. With its best-of-breeds PartCat solution, customers can map their data into ACES, legacy or other receiver formats, publish professional, printer-ready, catalogs as well as make their
product information available on the WWW from one all-inclusive data repository. Other receiver formats supported include NAPA, AutoZone, CarQuest, Advance, CSKAuto, Canadian Tire, ACDelco. PartCat is also PIES compliant. Using
cutting edge conversion utilities, JNPSoft can also facilitate your data conversion tasks.
Nu-Way Automotive System, Inc.
2939 Kenny Road, Suite 220
Columbus, Ohio 43221
Phone: 614-273-0702
Fax: 614-273-0748
E-mail: philbishopnuway@aol.com
Web site: www.nuwayauto.com
Contact: Phil Bishop
Nu-Way is a leading supplier of part and price data to the Automotive Aftermarket in the US and Canada. Nu-Way combines 1400 product lines (replacement parts, accessories, heavy duty, appearance and chemical) covering over 600 automotive manufacturers. This information is provided in a single, easy to use format, enabling customers to update and maintain their ever-changing databases and research files. Some of the fields that Nu-Way provides include pricing information , UPC information, popularity ranking, supersede, and new and obsolete part numbers. Nu-Way also offers custom research analyses for original equipment and aftermarket product lines. Nu-Way covers North American, European and Asian manufacturers and can create both technical and application interchange studies custom tailored to the client’s requirements.
Omnitek Inc.
24081 Lindley St.,
Mission Viejo, CA 92691
Phone: 949.581.5895
Fax: 949.587.0971
Email:info@omnitekinc.com
Website:www.omnitekinc.com
Contact: Janak Dudakia
Providing Strategic Solutions to Automotive Aftermarket Manufacturers since 1987. A pioneer in the industry, Omnitek continues to lead the way with innovative C.A.R.S. software and customized solutions, designed to help your company's catalog managers and staff get your products to market through the use of eCatalog Companies, CD – ROM, PDF-Printed Catalogs and Web Cataloging. With integrated Vehicle Population data provided by vendors, C.A.R.S. provides manufacturers with complete coverage, thereby maximizing both your time and lost sales.
Omnitek is also proud to introduce Professional Services offering. With "ProServ", you can spend less time managing your data and meeting your deadlines, and more time growing your business. In addition our Global Sourcing can help you with your production from design, prototyping and quality control, to shipping. As a Google partner, we can make publishing your Catalog in an eCommerce platform, stress free.
Omnitek also supports AAIA – ACES, Legacy & PIES, and other eCat formats e.g. Advance, Amazon, CarQuest, NAPA, TecDoc etc.
Pricedex Software Inc.
Box 458, 1864 Hwy 2.
E Brockville, ON K6V 5V6
Phone: 613-341-9200
Fax: 613-345-3660
E-mail: jeff.marshall@pricedex.com
Web site: www.pricedex.com
Contact: Jeffrey Marshall, Director of Business Development
Pricedex Software Inc. is the aftermarket’s leading developer of world-class Product Information Management (PIM) software applications, fully automating the ‘Four Pillars of PIM’ – Product and Part Management, Pricing Management, Catalog Management and Data Synchronization. AutoPIM Pro™ is the aftermarket’s only end-to-end PIM solution, offering a native database environment for the VCdb, PCdb and Qdb for complete ACES and PIES compliance in one application. AutoPIM Pro™ validates electronic file exports with Trading Partners, while also enabling cross-media publishing of catalog and pricing information to a wide range of other proprietary and industry catalog standards and paper catalogs. PDM Explorer™ is an XML e-Catalog viewer suite for dynamic publishing of web and CD-ROM electronic catalogs. Full implementation and support services provided.
Polk & Co.
26955 Northwestern Hwy.
Southfield, MI 48033
Phone: 248.728.7000
Fax: 248.273.6896
E-Mail: aftermarket@polk.com
Website: http://usa.polk.com/Industries/AfterMkt/
The Information Process Management experts, Polk will completely assess your data, your technology and your process in order to help you make the best decisions for processing your information to be consistent with output requirements and the current and future needs of your customers and your trading partners. We independently recommend the system and implementation process strategy that will be best suited for your company. We also offer Inventory Management, Target Marketing and VIN-Decoding Solutions for the Automotive Aftermarket.
Solenium Group Inc.
12 Steinway Blvd. Unit 3
Toronto, Ontario M9W 6M5
Canada
Phone: 800-811-5473
Fax: 416-798-8216
E-mail: cdisano@soleniuminc.com
Web site: www.soleniuminc.com
Contact: Claudio Disano, President
Solenium Group, Inc. is an industry leader with 25 years of experience providing the aftermarket with comprehensive Database Management and Publishing Systems, as well as Product Image Capture and Management Solutions. Our solutions facilitate publishing in Print, CD, Web, and e-Catalog formats including ACES, NAPA, and PIES. Solenium has enabled a vast number of aftermarket companies to maintain and improve their competitiveness, efficiencies, and profitability, through the implementation of relevant, timely, and cost effective software solutions. Solenium systems focus on enhancing sales, reducing returns, and facilitating the effective movement of products throughout the supply chain. Solenium values and builds strong client partnerships by helping them to achieve their business goals.
The NPD Group, Inc.
820 Gessner, Suite 830
Houston, TX 77024
Phone 216.785.9334
Fax 713.576.5115
E-mail: matthew.hendrick@npd.com
Contact: Matthew Hendrick
NPD is the premium provider of automotive aftermarket research information for the U.S. automotive aftermarket industry, petroleum marketing companies, and convenience retailing. For more than 20 years, NPD has tracked buying trends to provide important consumer information. Industry leaders depend upon our automotive aftermarket research and industry analysis to support their strategic decision-making and increase their understanding of consumer behavior.
Vertical Development, Inc.
935 Curtiss Street
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Phone: 630-724-1159
Fax: 630-724-1160
E-mail: rgarand@verticaldev.com
Web site: www.verticaldev.com
Contact: Ron Garand, Vice President
Vertical Development specializes in Database Publishing, e-Business, and Software development. Our e-publishing system is database-publishing software for automatically producing Printed, Web, and CD-ROM publications. The system maps to both AAIA and NAPA 2000 file standards. Output finished pages on any Windows compatible device or directly to a PDF file. The Image Renaming Tool is a free piece of software that runs on most Windows systems.
Winsby Group, LLC
11124 S. Towne Square, #103
St. Louis, MO 63123
Phone: 314-487-8186
E-mail: dougw@winsbygroup.com
Web site: www.winsbygroup.com
Contact: Doug Winsby, President
Developers of innovative ACES & PIES based solutions for the Automotive Aftermarket: AceAudit.com is an Internet-based ACES validation service; AceMapper is a powerful and flexible general-purpose ACES mapping solution co-marketed and used internally by Activant Solutions; AcePlanner is a product management tool to facilitate new-part and product life-cycle decisions; PiesCentral is an affordable PIES publishing system (with a built-in PIES on Demand web service); PIES Assistant is a low-cost, subscription-based tool to view and validate PIES 4.2/5.0 xml files; IntelliPart is an enterprise-level marketing and catalog management system. The company was founded by Doug Winsby, instructor for the University of the Aftermarket, lead architect of the ACES delivery standard and an active member of the AAIA Technology Standards and Solutions Committee.
WHI Solutions
5 International Drive
Suite 210
Rye Brook, NY 10573
Phone: (914) 697-9301
Fax: (914) 253-0621
E-mail: darren@whisolutions.com
Web site: www.whisolutions.com
Contact: Darren Dellavechia
Electronic Catalog Provider, Catalog Database Consulting, QuickCat database publishing software. AAIA Compatible.