And all South Forum were a wholesale floor covering distributor. He does a young business that you grow through multiple phases and a piece of that is trying to find different technologies that increase your efficiency and allow you to operate at a higher level. When we got started, we used different carriers, and we were logging into different websites, manually and out bill lading, trying to quote, waiting on emails back. And as we grew and the volume, followed suit, we started to look for how can we be more efficient in a work process. So I had the opportunity to have a meeting with, Greg to discuss LPL shipments. And during the meeting, introduced And I explained to him the capabilities where he can quote coordinate and track all the shipments for all his carriers, all on one platform. When Maritza approached us for for Avert Connect, once we were finally able to sit down and see a demo and see the practical application of the software, It was a no brainer for us. It made just the ease of quoting shipments, generating bill lading, the paper, and work flow that we have internally. It made all of it much smoother. When it comes to Abraham Connect, all South flooring has benefited in several ways. Initially, it was just get our rake boats all in one place execute our shipments all in one place. As they became more comfortable with the system, they realized there was more opportunity expand into areas such as integration that would simplify their process greatly. We're even going to take it a step further in the next year, and our next phase of that is actually integrating, the Avert Connect with R ERP system. So they'll actually give us real time rates within our ERP system, generate the bill lading and and take another step out of the process. With integration, orders come in automatically. There's no manual entry. So, it's been great so far. The transition was as painless as it can be, and, we're looking forward taking kind of the next step in integrating that even more so into our order process. So when you think about efficiency relative to Award Connect, let's just say you're using three carriers. The time it takes to look up those three carriers enter the shipment information three times, get the results, compile that somewhere, make a decision to go back, execute, When all that can be done in one platform at Avar Connect, you get the three answers that you were looking for, you get the ability to execute, Then you get all the after shipment benefits of track, trace, document retrieval. You've got the ability to send information back to the host system. You can audit All these things are available. And it's really increased the transparency and the communication that we have not only internally between the warehouse and over entry. Also our customers, they get automated emails with tracking information. Let's face it. We're all competing with Amazon. Right? They wanna know when their water's placed, when it's gonna be delivered, when it's shipped, and they expect it to happen within two days. And, honestly, Ara Connect allows us to meet those standards with our customers and, it's it's a huge value add for us.
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