Capper & Co is a food and drink wholesaler serving over 400 stores. The company is currently using AIMS for all EPoS data transmissions with its estate of 94 company owned stores.

Cappers go on to say: "We can now be absolutely certain that by Monday afternoon we will have the preceding week's sales and wages information from all 94 stores. And there's no manual intervention. It's all automated. So the manpower savings are substantial .... quite apart from the savings from local call rates and the obvious benefits from having the information faster and being certain of its accuracy and completeness."

AIMS - Accord Internet Messaging Service - is BCP's unique communications service, which offers companies enormous improvements in the flow of information between customers and suppliers, and between different branches or depots within an organisation.

Utilising the latest Messaging technologies, such as XML, AIMS harnesses the power of the Internet, together with a special communications infrastructure developed by BCP, to provide a means of transferring information which is faster, cheaper, more reliable and more flexible than traditional methods of transferring data electronically between computer systems.

AIMS eliminates the need for specialised software to translate data into the appropriate format for transmission. Furthermore, it overcomes the need for both sending and receiving applications to be in a 'ready state' when data is to be transferred - together with all the related problems this creates. These include failed connections, retries, broken transmissions, and the need for large banks of modems to facilitate the flow of data where, for example, a head office has to collect data from many branches.

AIMS allows users to send all their business messages over the Internet at a time convenient to them, whether or not the receiver is ready.

Here are some of the key features and benefits available with AIMS: