Initially our primary concerns about implementing a web site focused on making sure our database was secure. AutoPower was able to provide security solutions that addressed those concerns.
We can now securely present our customers order entry with real-time inventory and customer specific pricing. Our Customers have the ability to review, print and see both current and past orders history, payments and account status.
We feel we have a competitive edge with our online operation for our customers 
Betty Shelton , President and Owner
German Auto Parts, Inc.
ICEBreaker Ideal Solution for Large Automotive Parts Distribution Company
Want a Fully integrated e-Business Solution?
A recent report by Connecticut-based Gartner Group concluded that the average cost of a new e-commerce site is around a million dollars. AutoPower`s ICEBREAKER product is a custom application that can bring you to e-commerce for a fraction of this cost.
The Issue
Autopower`s customers handle all of their day-to-day operations of their business, from purchasing to sales, with a multi-value database that supports the AutoPower Suite of Solutions. Early on we recognized the potential and significant value of e-commerce for many of our customers. As the movement to e-business accelerated one of AutoPower`s development priorities became an economical scalable web technology tool with the capable of interfacing our business solutions with the outside world. We want to eliminate restrictions that would prevent our solution users from providing any kind of services to their customers via the web or interfacing their database with other external systems. Therefore, we developed a middleware product and e-commerce modules that could provide such services as: online ordering, reviewing current orders, displaying purchasing history, reviewing inventory, and searching the entire product database.
Our e-Business Solution
AutoPower`s ICEBREAKER product solution is a very effective interface to the multi-value database that is the foundation of AutoPower`s Business Solutions. ICEBREAKER allows real-time external reading and writing of data and even more specifically, ICEBREAKER can be used as a database interface to web applications.
One of AutoPower`s Success Stories
German Auto Parts, Inc. is an automotive parts distribution company with a nation wide customer base. We deployed the ICEBREAKER interface along with a suite of web modules to provide German Auto Parts, Inc. with web interface functionality. AutoPower`s ICEBREAKER web interface solution has been a big success in providing secure value added services to German Auto Parts` customers.
THE HIGHLIGHTED REAL TIME FEATURES OF THIS SITE:
- Secure Access Based on Authorized Users
- Parts lookup Based on Partial Part Number, Description or Manufacturer Part Number
- Quick Order with Valid Part Numbers
- Order on Hold Feature for Customer Changes or Additions
- Dynamic Ad Generation based on Product Search Criteria
- Local Printing of List and Wholesale Prices for Estimating Service Jobs
- Instant Messages to Account Salesman
- Product Graphic Displayed Dynamically with Search Results: Plus Links to Part Number for Further Details and Notes.
