FINDLAY, Ohio -- Tour de Force has announced the addition of AIMS Inc. as a strategic addition to the Tour de Force Channel Partner Program. Through this partnership, AIMS and Tour de Force deliver an end-to-end, integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI) and business process optimization (BPO) solution targeted at petroleum and fuel distributors.
“The team at AIMS has a great product suite targeted for the wholesale petroleum industry, especially bulk oil and lubricant distributors, and we are excited to partner with them to expand the Tour de Force brand into this new market. We already have mutual clients who are benefiting from the power of our combined solutions, and together we have a great opportunity to expand upon that success and provide value to other companies in the industry," said Ken Ledyard, director of channel sales at Tour de Force.
“AIMS is excited about our partnership with Tour de Force and their ability to pull data directly from our accounting software, COMPAS Commander. This partnership will provide AIMS’ clients with a whole new level of data mining and data management,” said David Dorries, director of sales and marketing at AIMS.
“Commander and Tour de Force are both business critical applications for us," said Kathryn Reppond, CFO of Central Oil & Supply, Monroe, La., said. "The interface between Commander and Tour de Force has allowed us to better manage our sales data, create sales and inventory alerts and streamline our workflow processes. We anticipate this partnership will continue to extend the value we leverage today.”
Central Oil & Supply is the parent company that operates the Central Station Stores, and is one of the largest, fully integrated petroleum and fuel distributors in the United States. Central Oil supplies petroleum products and services to wholesale and retail outlets, service centers, quick lubes, car dealerships and commercial and industrial customers. Fuel customers range from agricultural and retail outlets to municipalities and airports.
“The partnership with AIMS and specifically their flagship product, COMPAS Commander, continues to reinforce to the market one of the key differentiators of the Tour de Force solution, which is our ability to integrate with and provide significant incremental value to a businesses’ ERP system," said Ledyard. "One of the driving factors of creating the Tour de Force Partner Channel in early 2015 was to expand the Tour de Force brand into new markets, and partners such as AIMS are helping enable us to accomplish that goal."
Findlay, Ohio-based Tour de Force develops, sells, implements and supports enterprise software solutions with a focus on customer relationship management (CRM), sales force automation (SFA), business intelligence (BI) and business process optimization (BPO).
Monroe, La.-based AIMS develops and markets a top-tier accounting software solution, COMPAS Commander, for the petroleum market. Sixteen process automation modules also interface directly with Commander’s Core System, delivering increased office efficiency and productivity. In addition, AIMS has developed AutoTax, a stand-alone electronic tax filing solution; AutoSend, a specialized UST fuel inventory management and dispatching system and AutoSIR, an in-house Statistical Inventory Reconciliation solution.
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