IDCO Services
Efficient Supplier Programs: Saving Costs and Time
Cost-saving Supplier Programs
IDCO Member Services are designed to save members money through negotiated discounts and terms with suppliers of basic business services such as credit card processing, transportation, social media, office supplies and equipment, payroll processing, shipping, and gas cards.
Operational Savings
savings4members
Your IDCO membership includes access to exclusive member benefits through savings4members. These programs are free and can save your business substantial time and money. Support IDCO and reduce your bottom line at the same time. At savings4members, we’re here to help you succeed!
Logistics Management
Motus Logistics
Since 2005, Motus Logistics has partnered with organizations of all sizes across all industries, proactively reducing shipping costs and assisting with negotiating small parcel and LTL/FT carrier agreements.
ERP Solutions
DDI System
As markets change, you need to shift focus. Core components of success now include CRM, eCommerce, and advanced analytics.
DDI’s Inform ERP optimizes wholesale operations and includes these next-generation business tools in a real-time, unified platform. Deliver an exceptional customer experience, grow your business, and win against the competition.
Tribute Inc.
Tribute Inc. provides enterprise-wide business management software to distributors, fabricators, and systems integrators in fluid power, fluid handling, hose, sealing, automation, motion control, and related industries.
Analytics Services
MITS
MITS offers a comprehensive reporting and analytics solution that over 1,000 distributors and manufacturers use to leverage the data in their business systems to make better decisions. By combining flexible, user-friendly business intelligence tools with premade and customizable reports, dashboards, and scorecards, MITS helps customers quickly realize value from their analytics and business system investments through improvements in cash flow, profitability, and business growth.
Rubber Tree Systems
Offering affordable and powerful analytics, mobile sales, and CRM for your sales and management team, Rubber Tree Mobile Sales will provide your team instant access to the most relevant information on their phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop. Visualize your data with fully integrated analytics and beautiful dashboards, all customized to your needs. This low-cost, no-contract software is fully hosted with maximum security, freeing you from the worry (and cost) of maintaining another software system. With quality products, outstanding service, and long-lasting customer relationships, Rubber Tree Systems has mobilized sales teams nationwide for over 12 years! Over 200 companies have turned to Rubber Tree to provide them with the tools they need for their sales and management teams.
Payment Solutions
Card Connect
CardConnect offers advanced payment solutions backed by patented, PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) and tokenization that transforms how you process and manage transactions.
Employment Testing
Evalusource
EvaluSource helps you hire the right person for the job. Our pre-employment screening tool will help you match employees’ characteristics to the position and create a motivated and satisfied team. If you think you can afford the costs incurred from the systematic recruiting and hiring process, then you are not measuring the real financial impact of a bad hire. We know your long-term financial success depends upon hiring quality people, so we strive to help your organization gain a unique workforce and a competitive edge by selecting, developing, and retaining great talent.
Operational Services
MCA Associates
MCA Associates, a management consulting firm since 1986, works with wholesale distribution and manufacturing companies seeking and committed to operational excellence. Our staff of Senior Consultants provides operational excellence – idea leadership – and implements continuous improvement solutions focused on business process re-engineering, inventory and supply chain management, sales development, revenue generation, information systems, and technology, organizational assessment and development, and family-business succession planning.
Sales & Lead Management
Interlynx
Interlynx has developed a portfolio of systems that drive higher levels of collaboration between manufacturers and distributors in meeting the needs of the end customer and has grown to become the Number One provider of Sales Lead Management and POS Management Systems by all measures – number of clients, number of users, and a near-perfect client retention rate. Our systems are complex yet simple, effective yet elegant.
Investment & Insurance
Self-funded Health Plans with Stop-loss:
Historically, self-funded health insurance has only been available for larger employer groups. Most large organizations are now self-funded. Through the Association Employer Health Plan, self-funding may be offered to groups as small as five members. Self-funding with stop-loss is one of the more effective ways employers can influence the rising healthcare coverage costs. This type of health plan is generally cheaper for employers and provides many benefits:
- Elimination of most premium tax
- Lower cost of administration
- Lower carrier profit margin
- Transparent fee and cost disclosure
- More employer control
- Control of plan design
- The use of telemedicine
- More in-network options
- USA-based customer service
- Money is retained in low-claim years
RIA Fiduciary 401K Plans:
The 401k plan benefits cooperative members and employees with timely, accurate, and responsive retirement plan service through an RIA (Registered Investment Advisor) platform. Plan design includes low cost and fee transparency. 3(38) Fiduciary Investment Manager services provided by Wealth Management LLC. These benefits include lower costs, transparent fees, and plan design.
- Lower cost (elimination of high-cost funds, lower cost of administration)
- Transparent, easy-to-understand fees
- Plan design
- Education for employees
- Quality service
Service First Processing
IDCO and Service First Processing (SFP) have put together a special “members-only program” with exclusive benefits designed to reduce your cost of credit card processing while improving your level of service and support.
In addition to accessing low credit card processing fees, as an IDCO member, you can qualify for an annual rebate.
- IDCO members receive annual 10% rebates on the net processing revenue SFP generates from their accounts
- Free loaner equipment
- Free enhanced online reporting
- Dedicated helpline for IDCO members. Always get a live person when you need it most
- 60-day trial period / 90-day pilot program for Members new to credit card acceptance
Get a proposal for your organization today; the average savings for Manufactures and Distributors is a 15% reduction in processing costs before annual rebates.