Ball Pro Promotional Group Providing Distributors Time-Saving Services With Essent OrderTrax Integration

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Supplier Ball Pro Promotional Group is now offering distributors real-time, around-the-clock visibility to Inventory and Order Status to save time and make more efficient partnerships.

"In addition to providing instant answers to our distributor partners, we’re also reducing the time that Ball Pro spends providing answers so that transactions can move forward as efficiently as possible."

Essent® implemented the integration endpoints for Ball Pro via the Essent OrderTrax® Network using PromoStandards. Distributors integrated with Ball Pro now can look up complete, accurate, real-time Inventory and Order Status at any time.

The advantage of integration is that the information needed to move transactions forward can be shared automatically and in real-time, rather than slowly and manually through countless calls and emails.

"By integrating Inventory and Order Status information, Ball Pro automatically provides information that buyers frequently need to know before and after they buy. In addition to providing instant answers to our distributor partners, we’re also reducing the time that Ball Pro spends providing answers so that transactions can move forward as efficiently as possible,” Ball Pro Promotional Group President Adam Hanson said.

Ball Pro is actively seeking to share the time-saving services with more distributors, who can contact Essent to get started.

Other information types, or endpoints, that can be integrated in addition to Inventory and Order Status are: Order Shipment Notification, Product Data, Media Content, Invoices, Purchase Orders, and Product Pricing & Configuration.

About Ball Pro Promotional Group
Nestled in the outskirts of the beautiful Minneapolis suburbs, Ball Pro has been a leading supplier in the promotional products industry for nearly 25 years. A leader, you say? Why, yes. Your needs, your customer’s needs… we care about them more than our own children’s. Can you imagine?! We take great pride in giving you the absolute best service and product and, if you already know us, you probably know this to be true. Our reputation and our honor actually mean something over here.

About Essent
Essent is an innovative provider of fully-integrated business management software solutions and services for process-intensive industries. Essent solutions combine flexible workflow management with innovative technologies that automate repetitive tasks and simplify business processes. Since 1981, Essent has offered the systems, service, software, and support critical to success in today's highly-competitive marketplace. Essent provides best-in-class solutions for business management, ecommerce, and integration.

About OrderTrax
OrderTrax is a mature, proven integration network that securely and accurately processes over 12 Million transactions representing over $3 Billion in commerce annually. Supporting ANSI X12, cXML, ePSA, PromoStandards, and other public and proprietary standards, OrderTrax allows companies to integrate using the standards of their choosing. Instead of implementing and maintaining a costly new integration for each trading partner, companies can integrate once through OrderTrax to become connected to many trading partners.

About PromoStandards
PromoStandards is a group of distributors, suppliers, and service providers dedicated to improving supply chain efficiency in the promotional products industry. The group, including Essent, a Founding Member, defines and writes integration standards that allow distributors and suppliers to integrate for more efficient transactions and a more efficient supply chain.