"Sunscope typically holds $20 million in inventory including more than 2,000 different products at any given time. The ability to automatically provide information about inventory of this volume creates a great deal of new efficiency."

Sunscope, the 13th largest supplier in the promotional products industry, is now offering distributors real-time, around-the-clock visibility to Inventory Availability to save time and make more efficient partnerships.

Essent® implemented the integration for Sunscope via the Essent OrderTrax® Network using PromoStandards. Distributors integrated with Sunscope now can look up complete, accurate, real-time Inventory Availability 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.

"Manually answering questions about high volumes of inventory is time-consuming, and Sunscope typically holds $20 million in inventory including more than 2,000 different products at any given time. The ability to automatically provide our distributor partners information about inventory of this volume, at any time around the clock, creates a great deal of new efficiency for Sunscope,” Sunscope Chief Information Officer Vinay Arora said.

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

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

About Sunscope

Sunscope, the 13th largest supplier in the promotional products industry and a Top 15 supplier for more than a decade, is a manufacturer, importer and supplier to the industry since 1943. The Low Cost Leader in the Promotional Products Industry, Sunscope offers a complete line of high quality, state and federally compliant, innovative and exciting promotional with more than 2,000 SKU’s and more than 500+ patented or patent pending items.

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.