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Kerridge Commercial Systems is a software development company, providing integrated business software solutions for the distributive trades. Kerridge Commercial Systems help distributors, merchants and retailers in various industries to manage business processes including purchases, sales, stocks, deliveries as well as financial control. With its software development roots starting in 1976 with a business history dating back to 1907, Kerridge Commercial Systems are deployed at more than 3000 trade locations worldwide serving more than 50,000 users.

Kerridge Commercial Systems employs over 200 professionals with offices in Hungerford (UK), Bourne End (UK), Dublin (Ireland), Slidedrecht (Netherlands) and Johannesburg (South Africa).

The company's flagship product called K8 is used by trading divisions of multi-nationals as well as independant distributors, wholesalers and retailers. The company claims a significant market share in various sectors of the Distributive Trades including:
 * Builders, timber, plumbers and tile merchants
 * Electrical wholesalers
 * Industrial parts distributors
 * Bathroom / Kitchen suppliers
 * Automotive parts wholesalers
 * Electronic components
 * Apparel distributors
 * Food & Drink distribution and retail
 * FMCG
 * Stationery, and more.

History
K8 and the predecessor software solution ,Rev 7, have been supporting its customers for over 30 years. As originally part of ADP and previous to that Kerridge Computer Company the Kerridge Commercial Systems team now support over 700 customers large and small. The established offices in UK, South Africa, Ireland and Holland support customers across many countries across Europe and Africa. In recent years successful implementations have been extended in to Iceland and Norway.

K8 Software and Services
K8 is an integrated business management system, designed to assist distribution business, from quotation management and sales order processing through to business intelligence, inventory forecasting and financial reporting. Powered by Oracle, K8 is a multi-company, multi-branch and multi-currency ERP system providing comprehensive business management to companies of all sizes from 3 to 5000+ workstations. The software offer is completed by various services including Consultancy, Project Management, Network Solutions, Hosting.

K8 features various modules include:
 * Sales Order Processing
 * Purchase Control
 * Stock Management
 * Warehouse Management
 * Transport Management
 * Financial Control
 * Business Intelligence
 * eCommerce
 * Mobile Applications
 * Electronic Data Interchange

Acquisitions
In October 2011, Kerridge Commercial Systems acquired TIS Software headquartered in Bourne End, Bukinghamshire, UK.