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ASAP Automotive Warehouse Improves Its Quality of Service Thanks to MAM Catalog


ASAP Automotive Warehouse Improves Its Quality of Service Thanks to MAM Catalog

ASAP Automotive Warehouse (ASAP) plans to use MAM Software’s Autocat e-catalog of spare parts to improve deal-making process and optimizing its customer support. The company has already been enjoying benefits of using MAM Software’s Autopart business management solution for improved effectiveness in day-to-day operations.


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Located in Midvale, Utah, ASAP is specialized in wholesale commerce, managing 4 distribution facilities to provide automotive parts to its local customers. The company is known for top-quality services and impeccable customer support, and introduction of Autocat will become a fine addition. The e-catalog is created to significantly simplify a search for required parts, so the specialists will be able to provide relevant information in no time. All the information on auto parts is updated regularly and automatically without any intervention from the distributor, allowing ASAP concentrating on other activities.


Autopart is a market-leading business management solution.


It is interesting to point out that Autocat is designed in ACES format – the same format is used by many automotive production businesses for creating data. It significantly simplifies the process of info swapping between suppliers and the catalog. It is possible to publish relevant info to Autocat within 5-7 days, and once the info emerges, it is updated almost every day. That means that instead of a long data mapping process, company’s specialists can pay closer attention to quality assurance and providing the required info to the salesmen with the utmost dispatch.


ASAP official says that Autocat proved to be an extremely helpful and efficient tool. Having the most current data and a fast look-up process helps the company in provision of the best possible service to its customers. The head of MAM Software, in turn, pointed out that working with ASAP has been a very useful experience for his company. As one of the early adopters of Autocat, ASAP made a significant contribution to promotion of this helpful product.

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Probably every transmission repair specialist was keen on LEGO constructions or at least enjoyed making some minor things with their hands. Here's the game taken to a new level of creativity!

Modern auto industry is full of sophisticated drivetrain technologies which are supposed to make your driving experience even more pleasant and trouble-free. Despite a great abundance of sophisticated technical solutions, it is highly likely that very few people know a transmission solution operating like a manual CVT.

Over recent years engineers developed a lot of gear shifting solutions for different car brands, which may seem a bit unusual for oldtime drivers. In this article we will review the most peculiar gear stick technologies and provide video materials related to these technologies.

Only few people know about transmission concepts which were popular 70-90 years ago. For men of today, these gearboxes may seem very unusual and weird, but even now some gearboxes that date back to those years are quite competitive in comparison with modern transmissions.

Nowadays Extroid CVTs are commonly known as “toroidal” due to the fact that the working surface of driving and driven discs in this transmission has the form of a torus. Extroid CVT is not a V-belt transmission, but a friction drive CVT.