Case Study: China Auto Group achieves scalable growth and streamlined global inventory management with Acctivate

China Auto Group - Customer Case Study

China Auto Group, founded by Stephen Kirby, is a manufacturer and distributor that sources automotive parts from China for customers ranging from GM and Toyota to AutoZone and NAPA. Rapid growth (up to 40–50% a year) and complex international importing/exporting strained their spreadsheet-based inventory and QuickBooks accounting setup, so they needed an affordable, integrated inventory management solution — which led them to Acctivate.

Acctivate was implemented alongside QuickBooks to automate inventory, purchasing and order workflows (including an essential Drop Ship wizard that supports roughly 80% of their business), plus kitting, serial number control, dashboards and Business Alerts for CRM and reorder notifications. The result: company-wide daily use, major time savings by eliminating double entry, the ability to run two companies on one system, and lower total cost compared with enterprise ERPs — Acctivate delivered scalable capabilities with minimal implementation cost, allowing China Auto Group to avoid spending a quarter of a million dollars.

China Auto Group

Stephen Kirby

Owner