TSA
"We base all our price percentages for invoicing on the TRASER ® Standard Trade Price updates we receive every fortnight. We could not do invoice or charge out work without TRASER ® for Windows." |
| Karen Tamapii |
| Financial Controller, Watters Electrical (Aust) Pty Ltd |
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TRASER ® for Estimating
Application Layout  Basic Search  Applying Filters  Extended Search  Applying Discounts in 'All Items' List  Applying Discounts in Custom List  Integration List  Selecting Items  Reporting Legends  Renaming a List  Item Details  Column Context-menu  Search by Commodity Codes  Contextual Menus  Copy Vs Copy Special  Export Formats 
TRASER ® is a widely used software program, which features the Industries most current and complete database of electrical material items. It covers over 240,000 items from approximately 200 suppliers. The TRASER ® database provides the wide coverage needed to obtain current trade prices when preparing estimates.
Benefits of using TRASER ® when Estimating
- Saves time and hassle - No need to wait on the supplier to provide pricing information or scrambling to find the suppliers catalogue for product information. No need to spend time keying updated prices, new products, deleting obsolete products in your application's material database. The database is updated automatically.
- Improves accuracy - Material pricing and product availability is kept correct and up-to-date within TRASER ® and your estimating program
- Eases Decision making - Ability to cross-reference and compare products when you are developing estimates
- Risk Reduction - Consistency of Data from Estimating, through Purchasing, to Supplier reduces the risk of purchasing errors
- Peace of mind - Knowledge that pricing is sourced direct from the manufacturer and delivered by a long standing, trustworthy and Independent Provider
Advantages of working with TSA's Data Service
UPDATING MANUALLY
- Data from many sources
- Data in different formats
- Need to chase suppliers
- Data not checked
- Data needs to be keyed in
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UPDATING WITH TSA
- Data from one source
- Data in consistent format
- Data arrives regularly
- Data checked and verified
- Loaded onto your system
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Features of TRASER ®
- Seamless integration with estimating software such as Espro, ConEst, Estimating Solutions, Proest and Sharpen
- The ability to maintain and easily update material items in your estimating program's database
- Powerful search capabilities with ability to look-up on item Description, Catalogue Number, Australian Product Number (Barcode) or User defined Codes
- Easy manipulation of data and export to Excel
- Twice-monthly pricing updates
- Correct pricing and Product Information direct from Manufacturers
- Commodity coded for similar items search
- Capacity to apply pricing discounts for more accurate estimating
- Ability to ‘cut and paste’ product item rows from TRA-SER ® and ‘drop’ them into Estimates
- Item list creation and reporting
- Capability to add items and track products that aren’t listed in the TRASER ® database
- Extensive context sensitive Help
- Comprehensive Support
Comparative Guide - Pricing Data Sources
Click here to view what differentiates TRASER ® form Wholesaler Price Files and Supplier Websites
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