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Cam Systems Moves to Address Tyre Industry Training Dearth

Cam Systems has said that it wants to increase training and personal development in the tyre and fast fit industry. The IT applications provider, whose Cameo suite is used by over 2,000 tyre business employees is responding to a report by Profit From Training, an organisation set up in 1996 to provide training to the tyre and fast fit industry, which has observed a decrease in industry training over the past two years – at approximately 12 per cent in year one and a further 16 per cent in year two. In previous years, training had gone up on average by 6-8 per cent each year.

17th March 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Tyremax Puts Cameo into New Premises

Tyremax has expanded its business with the addition of two new sites in Finchley and Chigwell, bringing the total number of sites to three in North and East London. As a result, it will be extending its contract with Cam Systems to introduce the Cameo platform into the new locations.

11th March 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Strathclyde Tyres Wins Exel Scotland Contracts Supported by Cameo

Tyre supplier Strathclyde Tyres has won the West Dunbartonshire and South Lanarkshire local authority Exel contracts. Strathclyde reports that the use of Cam Systems’ Cameo software platform has assisted Strathclyde’s account management and reporting, allowing it to develop its communication with customers. Cameo provides a foundation line-of-business application suite for tyre wholesalers and retailers. Debbie Tracey, manager at Strathclyde Tyres says: “Our partnership with Cam Systems has enabled us to improve the way in which we manage accounts and streamline our reporting process. This has allowed us to improve the way we communicate with our clients and, in turn, make us more marketable. We selected Cam as we had been looking for a software package which is specifically built to meet our needs and have been impressed with the increased visibility it has given our company.” Cameo reportedly helped to increase visibility across its two divisions – private and commercial – provided by Cam Systems, the leading software solutions provider to the independent tyre industry.

10th February 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Cam Systems B2B Platform Has Midas Touch

Midas, the business-to-business e-commerce platform from Cam Systems, has reached £1 million pounds worth of tyre transactions in a single business day, reflecting what the company believes to be an upward trend in e-commerce in the independent tyre industry.

16th November 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Cam Commits to £1.3 Million Software and Services Programme

Cam Systems, the leading provider of software solutions and services to the UK independent tyre industry, has announced that it is investing £1.3 million in a customer charter called Cam 20:20. According to the company, Cam 20:20 sets out the its aims to serve customers more effectively by providing “wider IT options…and by ensuring the transparency of Cam’s performance against defined customer service levels.” In other words, the company is furthering its joined up approach to tyre business systems, with new products and a set of new service level agreements.

Cam 20:20 is the result of customer surveys conducted by Cam that highlighted the requirement for both more tailored and, at the same time, more comprehensive services from one systems provider. This means the launch of a 32 bit version of the company’s popular Cameo software, which runs on the latest windows operating systems and vastly improving reporting capabilities – even opening up the possibility of Google-style analytics. At the same time, Cam’s .NET system rewrite will deliver document management software (for purchase and sales ledgers, fleet management and call centre options) in the early part of 2010.

To support the introduction of Cam 20:20, the company has created a dedicated customer services team after appointing Steve Bazeley to the new role of customer services director. And new service level agreements (SLA) provide a more tailored approach to IT service needs. Customers can opt for Premium, Business or Standard agreements.

2nd October 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Cam Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreement with EDP

Tyre business systems provider, Cam Systems, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with EDP France and EDP UK for the UK tyre industry. The move is being seen as a significant step today in the company’s “business process optimisation strategy” and as a move towards RFID. The agreement covers all software and local support and installation services associated with EDP’s products, incorporating the company’s desk bound management platforms: Tyre parc; Fleet Check; and Fleet Check Lite.

Mike Allen, managing director of Cam Systems explained: “As service providers in the UK seek to increase productivity whilst also saving process costs, it became apparent that we needed to provide them with an option for a world class fleet inspection platform. The EDP software was designed in France, largely in conjunction with Michelin Europe, so its development credential is superb."

1st October 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Cam Systems Targets 7 New Staff for Expansion in 2009

Cam Systems is on the hunt for IT professionals interested in careers with the tyre industry’s leading software supplier. The company launched a recruitment drive towards the end of 2008 designed to fill seven full time vacancies covering a variety of roles in project management, installations, helpline support and financial accounting. Three of the positions were filled by the end of the year but four more staff will be added in early 2009 as Cam gears up for continued growth and expansion.

Accounts assistant Petri Conradie, a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants has been hired to provide back-up for Cam’s suite of accounting software; customer support technician Nick Berry and installations and support technician Michael Indruch have also joined the company. All three will all be in place by early January, helping to bolster customer support services and functions.

22nd December 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Cam Systems Offers Users Improved Version Release Policy

Cam Systems has introduced a new policy to manage the regular and controlled release of upgrades, enhancements and ‘bug fixes’ for its Cameo software program. With effect from January 2009, Cam users will start to benefit from regular bi-annual Cameo upgrades. The new Version & Release Control policy will, for the first time, allow all Cam users to benefit from the latest and most efficient version of the program at the same time.

The updates will be automatically issued to all Cam subscribers and will be accompanied by clear, easy-to-follow documentation. Supporting instruction and advice will also be posted on the Cam Systems website. Support staff will be fully conversant with modifications and available to assist customers where necessary.

22nd December 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Cam Systems Welcomes Back Founding Director

Pete Morys has rejoined Cam Systems 15-years after he left to set up his own software company. Morys is one of the best-known faces in the IT market and was a pioneer in the development of the software on which the market-leading Cameo program is based. He was technical director at Cam Systems between 1981 and his departure 12 years later in 1993.

In his new role as business development manager Morys will draw on his enormous technical and commercial knowledge to help customers develop the efficiency and productivity of their IT systems. He will work alongside fellow BDM Steve Collins and report to commercial director Steve Daly.

18th December 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Cam: ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind’ Doesn’t Compute With IT Hardware

Cam Systems has warned tyre distributors that too many businesses are taking an “out of sight, out of mind” approach to computer hardware. The company says that because the reliability and consistency of performance of equipment such as servers and desktop PCs is so good, many businesses forget the need for maintenance, upgrading or replacement.

“Servers are a good case in point,” says Steve Daly, Cam’s recently appointed commercial director. “Most hardware is supplied by Cam with a three-year on-site service support contract which provides full cover for the duration of the term. But the problem arises when the three years expires and the Server is effectively unprotected against failure or malfunction.”

4th December 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Steve Daly Appointed Cam Systems Commercial Director

Cam Systems has announced the appointment of Steve Daly to the newly-created Board position of commercial director. Daly was formerly head of UK sales for Destiny Wireless Plc where he worked with Cam as a client, as well as with other leading customers such as National Grid Wireless, Alfred McAlpine and Acuity Management Systems.

The new role at Cam will see Daly splitting his time and energy between two major priorities. He will spearhead the development of Cam’s presence and influence in non-traditional markets and technologies, as the company looks to broaden its capabilities and range of products and services. Another prime task will be to work with the existing customer base to provide improved service delivery levels and develop broader commercial relationships.

6th October 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

New MIDaS Interface Designed to Boost Online Retailing Efficiency

A new software module developed by Cam Systems for its MIDaS program is designed to help retailers improve the efficiency and accuracy of their online sales. The MIDaS tyre retail and wholesale stock management system now handles somewhere in the region of £140 million worth of product transactions, equating to more than 3 million tyre each year. Using the same system, Cam says it has responded to growing market demand by developing a B2C (business to consumer) solution for website stock, pricing and order processing functions.

Typically, website stock and pricing details are entered manually using a spreadsheet system, which is extremely time intensive, prone to inaccuracies and needs to be repeated on a regular basis as pricing and stock details constantly change. The MIDaS B2C module makes that process redundant as it is fully integrated with the Cameo operating system, which allows it to set up and export product and price data direct to the website. This is a vastly more efficient and accurate process than a paper-based system and gives retailers complete control of data which appears online.

2nd October 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

MAM to Target Tyre Market With Appointment

MAM Software is aiming to target the tyre market following the company’s appointment of Graham Dunford as a new Senior Sales Manager for its Autopart ERP solution. Dunford will spearhead the company’s drive into the tyre market, with a focus on increasing its penetration of the retail, wholesale and fast-fit sectors.

MAM Software is reportedly the largest provider of distribution and retail ERP solutions into the automotive aftermarket and has already established a significant user base in the tyre, fast fit and repair sector. As well as supplying national chains such as Formula 1 Autocentres, Mr Clutch, Wilco Fastfit, LSUK and Just Car Clinics, MAM also supports several well-known regional tyre companies and exhaust distributors including CES, Goodtread and Cooper Brothers.

15th August 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Unity Tyres Moves into New 28,500 sq ft Warehouse

After 26 years the Unity Tyre Co Ltd Northern Division has moved to new purpose built offices and a 28,500 sq ft warehouse in Keighley, West Yorkshire. Unity has operated its tyre distribution and wholesale service to Northern Division customers from the original site at Walk Mills, Keighley for almost three decades. Originally a woollen mill warehouse, Walk Mills was restricted in the amount of space available for the increase in stock holding that the company had planned as part of its expansion strategy. Unity needed to find premises that would allow scope for it to increase its stock holding so it could offer even more choice of products to its existing customer base in the North of England, as well as service the results of its successful sales and marketing drive.

13th June 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Digital ePen to ‘Revolutionise’ Offsite Data Transfer

An innovative new way of turning hand written paperwork into electronically transmittable data is set to transform the way in which tyre businesses process information from mobile technicians and other remote workers. Using state-of-the-art hardware, experts at Cam Systems have developed an affordable electronic ballpoint ink pen, which allows a workforce to capture information on paper at one location and transmit it via a Bluetooth enabled device, to another.

The so-called Cam-ePen system is expected to be particularly popular with tyre dealers providing on-site service and roadside breakdown assistance. It will also play an important role in capturing workshop records and job cards or timesheets, in fact practically anything that is currently being documented on paper can be adapted. It means paperwork based reports and signature authorizations can be completed instantly with real time data exchange linked to a central data management system.

22nd June 2007/by Tyrepress Editors