If you are acting as an agent for the buying department of a large company the features of the Talisman trading package will suit your needs.

If you receive 100's of enquiries and are inundated with faxes emails and letters in different formats the Talisman entry screens will allow a junior member of staff to key in the basic details of the enquiries and then produce a summary for a senior member of staff to look at and select the items which are of interest. Enquire about our E-commerce package where customers can enter the enquiries on the web in their format into your system.

Selecting suppliers for the required products is a skilled job and usually requires knowledge. The Talisman system can be used to search for the suppliers that your knowledge will specify and your staff will feature the correct supplier for the required product and then send out e-mail or faxes automatically from the information entered on the enquiry to any number of suppliers chosen.

Tracking the progress of a file is one of Talisman's greatest strengths. It does this by asking for a closing date for the file and from them onwards tracks the progress in 15 levels of the file. In addition all correspondence relating to the file is recorded against the main players connected with the file i.e. client supplier and shipper. Each item of correspondence can be diarised and this reminder system acts as a check list of daily tasks for each member of staff.

Prepare Quote in Multi currency (Buy in one currency but sell in another)

Buying in one currency and selling in another is a huge advantage to any buyer because prices of product vary so much by its location. A quotation prepared in Us Dollars as the selling currency could have many items where suppliers are from different countries and will sell at attractive local prices.

Receive supplier quotes and record the best for client quotation.

When suppliers return their quotes your staff can select the best for individual items or for all items and this allows the system to record the quotes received on time and those suppliers who were late or even the fact that many items of correspondence had to be engaged before a quote was received. All these factors are recorded by Talisman so that when supplier statistics are produced and a supplier is contacted you will have enough information enabling you to negotiate better prices or even point out the suppliers weak areas.

The quotation to the client is the most important aspect of the system. It will allow you to send quotations out on the exact date and time that the client specifies as a closing date. It is important not to send quotations too early and of course too late !.

Analyzing the performance of your business is the key to being profitable. Your staff your suppliers and your customers play a major role in your business and the statistics of Talisman shows you the relationships between these three players.

For instance a staff member may be taking much longer to process files that belong to a particular customer or where a particular supplier is featured. An analysis of customers may find that this particular customer generates many variations or queries and therefore the prices to him may need revising. The statistics produced could give valuable information to the customer himself who has internal problems which he was not aware. This is only one example of the benefits derived from the statistics produced by the Talisman system.

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