Activant, Wrenchead and other e-cat providers have made a commitment to adopt ACES. CARS was designed and developed with ACES as its core vehicle configuration database against which applications and parts are tied. Even though AAIA does not have a complete list of all commercially available vehicles, CARS provides the user the ability to add and maintain the master vehicle data with additional vehicle information without affecting the AAIA vehicle master database.

The system can be customized to add multiple attributes to a product or to a part number apart from the standard information like, part description, dimension or specification information, UPC, weight and class (popularity), attach multiple images of different types of image etc. The module supports attaching an image reference title while linking the part number and multiple images.

CARS is a multi-user system with security features that can be set by the administrator. Both menu level as well as product line based user permissions can be configured in the security settings. The user can be given view only or view and edit permission or the user can be denied access to any of the menu’s in the system (if a user is denied permission to any of the functions, they will not see the function in the menu).

CARS can be configured to many Databases, e.g. SQL Server, Oracle, etc. Omnitek can also supply the software with the Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE), which is the desktop version of Microsoft SQL Server 2000

CARS was designed to automate the process of gathering data from various different sources, including Original Equipment Manufacturers (O.E.M.), competitors, vendors and AAIA. Once the information is loaded into CARS it can be used to generate the following:

• Catalogs (Including Private Brand)
• Interactive Catalog, CDROM Catalog and Web Catalog
• Interchanges
• New Product Notices
• Product Line Coverage Information
• Stock Lift or Changeover Information
• Sales Bulletin Information
• Unit Box Information
• Consolidation Information
• On Line Catalog & Cross Reference (Telephone Inquiries)
• Lost Order Information
• Data conversion to AAIA, Activant, and other formats.
• PDF output for In-house publication
• Internet / Intranet connectivity for E-Commerce