The TUG Connects conference is just around the corner (March 26-29). The Expertek team is coming to Phoenix with a full load of new products, updates, and enhancements that will help distributors get more value from their SX.e investments, deliver better service to their customers, and accelerate their business growth.

This is the first in a series of "preview" posts to give you a taste of what you'll see at the Expertek booth (Booth #11).   

OrderPoint 3.0: Direct access to the Infor stack, and a lot more 

You already know OrderPoint for the smart features and robust functionality that it integrates into your Infor ERP for increased productivity of your teams in the field. At TUG Connects, you'll meet the next generation of mobility technology for distributors: OrderPoint 3.0. It's different and better in three big ways: 

1. OrderPoint 3.0 is faster.  

Expertek has engineered a cloud-native, serverless back-end that connects directly to ION—and your full Infor stack—with greater speed and strength. 

2. OrderPoint 3.0 does more to make your teams productive.  

To make mobile ordering and customer service more frictionless than ever, OrderPoint 3.0 empowers your field teams to manage: 

• Non-stocks 
• Price by margin target 
• Price breaks 
• URL notes 
• Reports 
• Customer ship-to adds and edits 
• Order edits 
• VMI distribution: Count-based ordering and count-based consigned ordering 
• Contact adds and edits 
• Product options, substitutes, and supersedes 
• Plus, a new Customer View mode provides deeper visibility into customer purchase/return history, enabling added-value customer interactions. 

3. OrderPoint 3.0 is fully compatible with Infor CloudSuite Distribution.

New, deeper integrations empower true cloud-based, end-to-end capabilities for modern distributors. Distributors can choose hosted or on-premises CSD integration. And one more thing: Expertek's SXAPI gateway will now enable full OrderPoint 3.0 integration with SX.e (v10 and prior). 

To learn more, visit Expertek at Booth #11. 

We'll be demoing OrderPoint 3.0 throughout TUG Connects 2018, so be sure to take time to stop by Booth #11 and see everything that's new. (I've got a couple more TUG Preview posts on the way—subscribe at the top right of this page to make sure you don't miss any.)

And for some eye-opening reading before the conference, download our new Innovation in Distribution 2018 survey report.