Case Study: Town Fair Tire achieves centralized, compliant purchasing and real-time inventory visibility with PLANERGY

Inventory & Purchasing Compliance Management Software for Tire Retailers

Town Fair Tire, the largest tire dealer in New England with about 100 locations and 1,000 employees, was burdened by a manual procure-to-pay process using Excel, email, and phone that caused higher prices, slow or missing deliveries, poor order tracking, and uncontrolled local budgets. To address these challenges, Town Fair Tire deployed PLANERGY’s Inventory & Purchasing Compliance Management software to centralize purchasing and purchasing compliance across its retail, wholesale, regional, and main office locations.

PLANERGY implemented a cloud-based procure-to-pay solution with five-level approval workflows and customized local spend limits (workflows set up in one week), trained 167 users via brief webinars, and enabled three-way matching, preferred-vendor pricing, real-time reporting, and full store-level inventory visibility. As a result, PLANERGY eliminated local overspending, improved order accuracy and delivery transparency, streamlined accounts payable and reconciliation, and delivered sustained purchasing efficiency gains across the company over five years.

Town Fair Tire

Betty Russell

Vice President of Finance