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Cutting Component Sourcing Time Gets Quotations In Minutes.

Farrell Inane, the international marketer and distributor of electronic and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products and services, is also highly respected for its extensive range of Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) products.

Such diverse items as First Aid kits, designed to meet individual State requirements, burns kits, bandages and books on workplace safety practises are all part of the Farrell Inane range.

Farnell InOne's revolutionary new ProductFind facility is specifically intended to help customers source those hard-to-find products - quickly and easily. Farnell InOne's industry leading "product search and quote" tool will turn around requests for quotations (RFQs) on an average of 1,000 products in just a few minutes.

Commenting on this innovative new approach, Rory Boyes, Head of Sales & Marketing for Farnell InOne in Australia, says: "We are constantly looking for ways to make our customer's lives simpler by anticipating their needs and working proactively to solve them. ProductFind is another service that our customers are looking for to reduce the time spent on product sourcing and quoting. It will have a direct effect on efficiencies by freeing up employees' time and increasing the speed at which goods may be obtained."

Initially available to Premier Farnell customers in Europe and Asia-Pacific, the ProductFind database incorporates over six million products from more than 3,000 suppliers. Currently this includes the product ranges of Farnell InOne, BuckHickman InOne and CPC (all part of the Premier Farnell Group), with the added capability to search from suppliers not associated with the group. ProductFind will search for a product or list of products, and return a quotation (in local currency) complete with availability and delivery dates. The aim is to give every customer, from the smallest to the very largest, a completely personal, tailored service, combined with the impressive back up and support which can only be provided by a large, sophisticated global organisation.

"ProductFind is a great example of how Premier Farnell's InOne businesses work together across geographic and business boundaries, to meet customer needs," says Stephen Makepeace, Australian Managing Director. "If a product requested by a local customer is out of stock here but showing as available in Hong Kong, we can source it for them. Similarly, if a product is not listed amongst the six million on our database, then we will search non-listed suppliers to procure it for them. It's all about going that extra mile to make our customer's lives easier."

Farnell InOne provides industry-leading, flexible, tailored eBusiness solutions. At the top end of Farnell InOne's market-leading eBusiness capability is eProcurement, designed with larger companies in mind, buying high volumes of products, processed by dedicated purchasing staff. For these companies, Farnell InOne works to create tailored eProcurement systems, integrated into their chosen back-end technologies. Farnell InOne can fully service its international corporate customers through a range of products and services including industrial tools and supplies and health and safety products from sister company BuckHickman InOne.

For further information or a catalogue, telephone 1300 361 005 or click to www.farnell.com.