EDI CAPABILITY

 

     It would be easy to assume that a mid-sized company such as ours does not possess military specific data capabilities equal to larger organizations.  Nothing could be further from the truth. 

    

DeCA and Bethel-Eckert have been jointly honored as the Best Electronic Commerce Small Business-Government Team of the year in the entire Department of Defense. DeCA selected Bethel-Eckert as their Best Electronic Commerce Team of the Year for 1999 in the small business category. 

 

     Our entire information systems capability is equal to or greater than any distributor in the military industry.   A bold statement but one supported by facts.  Our systems are devoted solely to serving our customers and DeCA while enhancing our internal administrative capabilities.  We execute our own in-house programming.

 

     We electronically transmit our purchase orders utilizing transaction set EDI 875.   We are capable of handling both the EDI 880 and 820 grocery products invoices, and remittance advice.  We support versions 3010 through the current version for various manufacturers.

 

     We transmit our highly accurate roll-up invoices utilizing transaction set 867, faster than any distributor in our industry.  The accuracy and timeliness of these transmissions enables our customers to process roll-ups faster, invoice DeCA faster and gain faster access to sales figures.  We have many “time stamp” verifications of roll-up receipts by manufacturers and brokers to support our claim.  In fact a major manufacturer-customer of ours recently conducted a top to bottom analysis of all their distributors’ capabilities.  Their conclusion was Bethel-Eckert is the standard by which all distributors will be measured.  Their objective is to bring all their distributors up to our level of accuracy and efficiency.

 

     Our compatibility with and support of DeCA’s system is unsurpassed.  We have invested many dollars and man-hours to assure we are capable of supporting DeCA’s systems and processes. 

 

WEB SITE

 

      Our web site at Bethel-Eckert.com has, in addition to locations, directions and personnel listings, a daily updated reports section which lists all current DeCA promotion period items serviced by us.  These reports allow you to monitor performance on all package items in real time.

 

DeCA‘S “BEST ELECTRONIC COMMERCE TEAM OF THE YEAR.”. . .WINNER “BEST ELECTRONIC TEAM OF THE YEAR” FOR THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

(1999)