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Batteries Plus, the nation’s largest all-battery retailer, has improved efficiency, accuracy and cycle time for purchase order processing by integrating a new supplier management solution with real-time reporting developed by Indianapolis-based Blue Horseshoe.

Prior to implementing Blue Horseshoe’s Vendor Portal, Batteries Plus manually managed its purchase order-to-payment process. This made it difficult for the company to work with vendors to place and manage purchase orders, ensure timely and accurate documentation to U.S. Customs to meet the requirements of new regulations in 2010 and track metrics of their other vendors during the purchase process.

Vendor Portal is a software solution that provides global visibility to the health of a supplier network, a real-time dashboard and reporting on individual supplier performance that enables companies to identify their top suppliers. It provides information that companies can leverage in negotiating supplier contracts, integrates seamlessly into a new or existing enterprise system and provides a live, automated global view of a company’s supply chain.

Within six months, Batteries Plus will roll out Vendor Portal to all domestic suppliers and expand the solution by implementing a new quality control step in the company’s overall work flow.

Recently, Blue Horseshoe announced its acquisition of Ohio-based TransTech Consulting Inc. and a major integrated software solutions deal with Florida-based Amalie Oil.

One of the nation’s largest family-owned oil companies has chosen Blue Horseshoe as its integrated software solutions provider to sustain and enhance its entire business operations. Amalie Oil Co. has contracted with Blue Horseshoe for its entire suite of integrated software solutions, including:

• Microsoft Dynamics AX: A Tier 1 ERP Solution, Microsoft Dynamics AX is a smart, safe, long-term decision designed to better equip employees with tools that automate and streamline processes while continually fueling business productivity.
• Business Intelligence as a Service (BIA2S): BIA2S provides a real-time, global view of a business and extracts critical information from all data sources to optimize a business and immediately impact the bottom line.
• Warehousing for AX: WAX provides a complete real-time, global view of a business by extending significantly advanced functionality around the ability of the Dynamics AX platform to accomplish warehousing tasks easily and efficiently while optimizing the supply chain. WAX aggregates and consolidates warehouse data.
• Vendor Portal: A Supplier Management Solution that integrates seamlessly into a new or existing Enterprise System and provides a real-time, automated, global view of a supply chain.

Founded in 2001, Blue Horseshoe is a privately held solution services firm that provides expert consulting in system implementation and integration to Fortune 500 and mid-market businesses throughout the world. Based in the Midwest, Blue Horseshoe assesses business needs and applies world-class business applications to improve profitability and increase efficiency.

“Amalie Oil Co. has an outstanding operation with a proven track record of providing the best products in the marketplace,” said Kevin Paul, vice president of Blue Horseshoe. “We are excited to put the entire, extensive suite of Blue Horseshoe integrated software solutions to work for Amalie Oil Co. and both improve and enhance the company’s total business operations.”

Founded in 1903 in Franklin, Pa., Amalie Oil Co. produces a full line of automotive, fleet, industrial and specialty lubricants. With a main production facility in Tampa, Fla., and satellite facilities in Jacksonville, Fla., and L.A., the company blends and packages nearly 200 different products shipped to every U.S. state and to more than 70 foreign countries. The Official Motor Oil of the International Hot Rod Association since 1999, Amalie Oil Co. also blends and packages private label products for other major oil companies, automotive retailers, programmed distribution groups, food and drug retailers and mass merchandisers.

“Blue Horseshoe was able to analyze our entire business operations and propose a very strategic, comprehensive bundle of solutions that will quickly and ultimately improve our overall efficiency as a company,” said Gianni Burket, chief information officer of Amalie Oil Co.