Yamaha Motor Finance Canada is reporting a successful launch of the White Clarke Group’s CALMS Compass Wholesale Management system, after going live nearly 18 months prior to launch.

Yamaha previously outsourced its inventory finance program to GE Capital. However, with GE breaking up its financial arm to focus on manufacturing, Yamaha needed to find a new inventory finance system.

“Working closely with the Yamaha Motor Finance Canada team, our software solution was implemented with Yamaha’s requirements and delivered on schedule,” said Kurt Ruhlin, COO of White Clarke Group Americas. “The timing was of particular importance to Yamaha as they were faced with a fixed conversion date in moving away from their outsource partner.”

Some of the features of White Clarke’s system include, powerful workflow wrapped seamlessly around existing business processes, single view of the customer for a “one call” capability when handling queries, no-touch processing for improved efficiency, KPI-driven dashboards that provide visibility of portfolio performance and third party integrated inventory auditing and automated results handling.

The system also includes drill-down capability that allows visibility and resolution of rule based exceptions and an audit trail that enables credit control and compliance.

With the help of White Clarke’s system, Yamaha is now able to enjoy true supply chain integration, role-based web interfaces, an improvement in operational efficiency and quality of service while giving their dealers the power to manage their own wholesale accounts. In addition, Yamaha is able to review inventory across its dealer network and is equipped to run targeted incentives campaigns to help drive sales.

Since implementation, Ruhlin noted that there has been no inconvenience to Yamaha’s dealers during the migration process.