Target Tire is a wholesale tire distributor, with corporate offices in Jacksonville, North Carolina and distribution centers in Carolina, Georgia and Virginia. Target Tire felt the need to utilize Internet technologies to develop an overall e-business strategy to meet the business and technology challenges in the increasingly competitive tire distribution industry.

Clavib's Role:
Clavib’s Team has undertaken retail-consulting services where the team carried out a business process study and helped the client in improving their internal processes.

The team has also done solution and technology consulting where the team developed a web interface for the real time access for sales staff, wholesalers, and retail stores of Target Tire management and thus facilitated them expand their business with prolonged value-added services. We provided:

• The Dealer Program for a single point of reference for viewing real time Inventory and Orders, Billing Status, Trip Credits, Co-op Allowance and the Dealer special program
  
  
• Online ordering for real time ordering and confirmation
  
  
• Online access to Tire Select application for tire selection, identifying tire sizes for specific makes and models of vehicles
  
  
• Online access to manufacturer's data and web sites specific to the lines carried by Target Tire

Technology Used:
Environment: Apache v.1.3.12, running on Windows NT using the mod_perl v.1.24 API and DBI v.1.14 (Database Interface), Progress Database v.8.31b3.