In the scrap metal recycling industry, your vendors are a key component of your success. The source of your scrap metal and the price you pay for that raw material is part of your competitiveness equation. Fortunately for recyclers, practices and tools, like industry-specific software, are available to help foster good relationships with scrap metal suppliers.
How software benefits vendor relationships
Your vendors want quick, reliable and consistent service. Good software can smooth out and speed up the process of purchasing scrap metal, be it from an individual retail vendor or from a large industrial account. ScrapWare Inc., which provides premium software to the recycling industry, includes features in its software that manage purchases, quotes, contracts, truck dispatch and container tracking for scrap metal recyclers. These features streamline the buying process, offering a trustworthy experience for the suppliers of your raw materials.
Purchases Module:
ScrapWare’s Purchases Module is designed to streamline and simplify the purchasing process, giving your vendors rapid and effortless processing. For retail vendors, ScrapWare’s hardware integrations with scales and cameras allow you to capture data by entering it just once, where it remains with the ticket from scale to cashier. ScrapWare’s detailed reports allow you to see all your past transactions with every vendor for consistent and reliable service.
Quotes and Contracts:
The Quotes and Contracts Module in ScrapWare helps recyclers save time and streamline the buying process, saving time for your vendors. It is packed with unique features that will find the best prices for a given product in an instant and measure vendor deliveries against their predicted weights and adjust the price as needed.
Truck Dispatching and Container Tracking:
ScrapWare’s Truck Dispatch and Container Tracking Modules offer abundant efficiencies to scrap metal recyclers. One of the benefits is that you can better service industrial accounts with real-time information about the status of your truck fleet and containers. Reliably dispatch a truck to a vendor site and have the latest information about your container locations, so your vendors know they can count on you to service their account. Using these modules, you can:
- Precisely schedule container movements and vendor servicing.
- Share real-time updates on truck fleet activity, driver activity, and productivity.
- Show the total cost of materials.
- Simultaneously dispatch from multiple locations while reporting to one central location.
Giving Vendors a Better Payment Option with the Paysign® Cashless Interface
Recent surveys indicate people are reducing their use of cash in favor of digital payments. ScrapWare now offers its customers a faster, safer, and smarter way to pay your vendors–without using cash. ScrapWare’s Paysign® integration makes it easy to replace or supplement your current cash and check-based systems. This innovative solution delivers a contemporary digital alternative that minimizes risk, reduces administrative costs, and enhances overall efficiency.
Our digital system offers secure, immediate access to funds, protecting your business and your vendors. Using the Paysign interface, your vendors can:
- Access funds instantly with a reloadable debit card which they can use at any local external ATM or use to pay directly for purchases—online or in-person.
- Get 24/7 support with a trusted payments platform that keeps your business running smoothly.
- Use a powerful mobile app allowing them to manage cards, check balances in real-time, and locate nearby ATMs with ease.
- Have compatibility with major mobile wallets like ApplePay*, GooglePay*, SamsungPay*, and popular payment systems such as Venmo, CashApp, and PayPal, ensuring they have versatile options at their fingertips.
With ScrapWare’s cashless payment integration via Paysign®, vendors gain convenient, flexible, and immediate access to their funds, while your operational costs and risks decrease significantly.
Improve Vendor Convenience with ScrapScribe
Electronic signatures are yet another way ScrapWare can improve your vendors’ experience. ScrapWare has teamed up with DocuSign, the leader in digital signatures, to give its customers the ability to use e-signatures for finalizing contracts. The use of e-signatures can eliminate bottlenecks in your process and provide a more secure document. Electronic documents are not vulnerable to being lost or damaged and are more secure against fraud. Using the ScrapWare ScrapScribe e-signature feature, recyclers can quickly turn a quote into a contract and e-mail it to a vendor for an e-signature, having a deal completed within minutes.
According to a recent online article by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, “Five Tips for Building Strong Vendor Relationships,” strong partnerships with vendors can help fuel sustainable growth. According to the article, “vendor relationships are the backbone of small business.” ScrapWare software has the tools that allow scrap metal recyclers to build and maintain these solid relationships between recyclers and their vendors.
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About ScrapWare Corporation: Since 1989, Rockville, Maryland-based ScrapWare Corporation has been the software of choice for the recycling industry. Its ease of installation and simplicity saves users time and money while helping them achieve compliance and maintain accurate business insights. With state-of-the-art functionality tailored to each organization’s unique requirements, ScrapWare is an advanced dynamic software solution that alleviates the most pressing recycling industry worries. For more information, please call (301) 517-8500 or visit https://www.scrapware.com/.