Spaldings are Europe's leading distributor of agricultural replacement parts, workshop tools, fasteners, and farm maintenance equipment. Spaldings extensive range of quality assured parts & equipment, represent outstanding quality & value; helping farmers reduce their running costs. Our range of groundcare products is of particular interest to local authorities and golf courses.
From our headquarters in Lincoln the company covers the UK and exports to most world-wide destinations, our sister company based in Athlone covers the Republic of Ireland. Having more than 38 years experience of directly supplying UK farmers, the company has gained an industry wide reputation for quality parts and new product innovation, resulting in a product range of over 10,000 lines, many unique and available only from Spaldings. Our sales force of more than 40 field sales people cover the whole of the UK and Republic of Ireland, supported by a telephone sales team based in Lincoln. Our loyal customer base is in excess of 35,000 farmers, contractors, agricultural engineers, local authorities and golf courses.
“We have more than 20 years experience of using Soltec as an outsource for developing our software applications. We view them as a partner and a valuable contributor to our continuing success. We involve Soltec at the outset of any project and use their technical knowledge and business experience to establish how we can achieve a desired objective. Their high standards at every stage means that it is rare for a project to exceed time or cost budgets.
We have applied the solutions developed by Soltec to almost every aspect of our business operations. For example we recognised the need for a more effective means of communication with our field sales force. With over 40 sales personnel in the field (literally!) it is vital to keep them informed of the latest position on customers, orders, stock, products, service levels etc and enable them to enter orders and provide other information immediately from remote locations. The Truecraft system developed by Soltec enables this to be done and provides a seamless interface to our back-office applications. This capability together with its associated marketing database has been instrumental in growing our business to it present successful level.
Based on our experience with other software providers we rate Soltec as excellent in the areas of business knowledge, technical ability, software functionality, quality of support and value-for-money."
Alan King
Information Systems Director
Spaldings
