Middle East Tyre Dealer Uses TireWare POS System

(Akron/Tire Review) Red Cap Total Car Care, reportedly the largest tyre dealer and service centre dealer in the Middle East, has implemented a point-of-sale (POS) solution from TireWare Inc. across its chain of retail stores. Red Cap, headquartered in Saudi Arabia, is a division of the Tamimi Group.

Integrated with Microsoft’s Great Plains accounting application, the TireWare software system provides Red Cap with retail POS, commercial billing, wholesale order entry, inventory, demand forecasting and replenishment, general ledger, accounts receivable, collection management, accounts payable, purchase orders, customer relationship management and supply chain management.

“We are very pleased with the success of the software implementation, which we believe affirms our decision to implement TireWare’s solutions and confirms TireWare’s track record of delivering on its vision,” said Al Benoit, general manager for Red Cap Total Car Care.

“TireWare’s business management solution will provide us with a solid platform and selling tool to meet our aggressive growth strategies, as we plan to open as many as 30 Red Cap locations throughout the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).” GCC member countries include Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

“We chose TireWare after a lengthy and detailed due diligence process through which we considered a wide range of tyre dealer specific point-of-sale solutions available in the market,” commented Akber Ali, senior IT manager at Red Cap. “We concluded that TireWare offers the best retail, commercial, and wholesale functionality, as well as excellent integration capabilities, which was extremely important when considering our system has to be seamlessly linked to a range of business processes covering our unique operations.”