Elcome - Worlds a Part

Elcome is delighted to announce it has invested over £¼ Million to provide additional capacity required to meet business growth. This includes significant investment in both people and infrastructure at its headquarters, located along the M4 corridor in Wroughton, south of Swindon, Wiltshire.

We're delighted to announce that we’ve introduced major, new time-saving features to Supersessions in XChecker, designed to speed up and simplify the way you manage your Cross References and Applications.
 

New improvements to Image Manager have been released, making it easier to create, adjust and view Watermarks. The improved Preview function and increased Composite Method options will help you to achieve a better finished result.

If you'd like to have greater control over the initial information viewed on TecDoc, find out more about the optional function that exists within XChecker which can be activated at your request.

Download our Top 5 Reasons why Digital Assets are essential for today's Automotive Aftermarket Manufacturers, and why you should invest in your own asset management library.

We will be reactivating ARC and customers will be able to submit data to MAM for publishing on Autocat from 8.00am GMT tomorrow morning (Tuesday 12th September).

Product imagery and other digital assets are fundamental for a successful e-commerce strategy in the automotive aftermarket industry.

MAM have advised us that they will be upgrading and improving their servers over the next two weeks, and as a consequence this will require downtime for ARC. 

Find out more about ARC (Autocat Ready Centre), an enhanced feature of ONCE™, Elcome's complete cataloguing and fulfilment solution, that makes it easy to clean, translate and format your data in order to achieve MAM's v8 standard.
 

Once again, Elcome was delighted to sponsor and supply the golf balls and tees at the second IAAF Golf Team Challenge this year..

The Elcome team have been getting genned up on the latest enhancements in XChecker.

An entry level Data Analyst is required on a permanent basis to work with automotive data for vehicle applications and parts.

Download our latest infographic which identifies the needs and challenges for all Product Managers in today's competitive Automotive Aftermarket.

An integration tester is required to come in and help us to create, develop and maintain a new automated testing environment for our suite of online products.

Find out all the results from this year's Northern event.

Elcome is delighted to have sponsored and supplied the balls and tees for all the teams taking part at this year's event.
 

Elcome is pleased to announce that the following enhancements will soon be made available to you in XChecker:

Parent/Child and Branding

Product criteria in Parent/Child will be grouped together into their own collapsible area making it easier to read and maintain Parent/Child relationships.

Images in XChecker

Images in XChecker will show directly from Image Manager, without making copies resulting in a more accurate and change responsive display.

Automate

Changes to the submission screen mean that you will no longer spend time re-submitting information if an export is still underway with MAM, for easier, clearer and more efficient working.

It's a resounding thumbs up for the training provided by Elcome. So far, all candidates who have completed the training have rated both the level of instruction and the knowledge shared as Good to Excellent.

Here at Elcome, customer support is not an afterthought, it’s first and foremost. Because of the significant growth in our range of solutions and services, we now recognise that our Support Team no longer handle queries only about XChecker. Which is why, with immediate effect, we are changing our customer support contact address to:
support@elcome.ltd.uk
 

Elcome are looking forward to attending Automechanika in Birmingham (6-8th June) this week. If you are going too, it would be great to take advantage of this chance to meet up and talk about ONCE™, Elcome's online global cataloguing solution.

Meet with us and find out more about ONCE™, Elcome's online global cataloguing solution.

As part of our ongoing commitment to continuous improvement, Elcome is pleased to announce the release of new functionality to all Image Manager Users. These developments will provide better visibility for your images, particularly those within Export Sets, and enhanced flexibility when using Watermarks.

Congratulations to our first 'Principles of Good Cataloguing' graduates! It was a pleasure meeting the team from Denso, who have spent the last couple of days enhancing their knowledge of XChecker and learning tips and tools to help then work faster and more efficiently.

Stewart Cartman, Elcome’s New Business Manager has been whipping up a storm in Kansas, USA where he is attending this years’ ACPN Knowledge Exchange Conference, the largest gathering of catalogue professionals, vendors and solution partners in North America.

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At Elcome we’re constantly listening to your views and ideas, shaping our products and services to meet your needs. Following recent customer feedback, we’ve made an improvement to Image Manager that now makes downloading files even easier.

A Swindon based Software Developer is required to contribute to our success as a market leading provider of Automotive Aftermarket Solutions.

We work in conjunction with multi-national automotive corporations supplying all of their data management needs including, print catalogues, websites, online tools and electronic catalogues. 

The Role

A Software Developer is required to develop and support our future and historical core product. The Developer will be reporting to the Development manager and will be working closely within a small development team of 9 other developers of varying skill sets and experience levels while being supported by the development manager. 
 

A new development in our Image Manager tool enables users to specify which images are to be published for a particular product when there are multiple and differently-branded pictures for linked parts.

Elcome’s expertise on catalogue production is not just about data preparation and page production. It is also complemented by our long-established relationships with a variety of printing companies, meaning we can source competitive quotes for all your catalogue print jobs, whatever the specification.

Elcome has been busy developing Image Manger to do more for its user-base. The result is that we now have three Image Manager specifications - LITE, Standard and PRO.

 

Working within their XChecker catalogue data management system and together with Elcome’s Data Team, Comline have recently achieved v8 status for their Autocat catalogue content. Meeting the KPIs and standards necessary for v8 approval will result in more first-time VRM matches, fewer duplications and better-described criteria and notes.

Elcome were delighted to sponsor the Car supplier of the Year award at last week's IAAF Awards Ceremony in Birmingham.

Expanding on the existing Bulk Export/Import suite in XChecker 3.1, we are pleased to announce the release of bulk index editing.

Following TecAlliance’s re-structure of their TecCom, TecDoc and TecRMI divisions under the one umbrella, the organisation has also set out the companies they officially co-operate with in order to offer solutions to optimise their Data Supplier’s daily activities.
 

As previously communicated, Elcome is investing in expanding its popular XChecker training programme into new areas to reflect the increasing sophistication and capability of the system.

Timken launched their new 654 page Wheel Bearing PDF Catalogue at this year’s Automechanika in Frankfurt, Germany.

As part of our continuous improvement plan for this increasingly popular product, some cool new features have recently been added.
 

Automechanika Frankfurt 2016 continued to be an exceptional show for Elcome to attend. We approach it in an unusual style that really works for us and our customers, although walking all that distance every day is not great for the feet!

 

As XChecker has grown over the years, the requirement for training has grown in tandem, both in scope because of the increasingly broad range of functions to cover and in numbers due to the flourishing band of users out there. In order to keep improving its training offer, Elcome is investing in two ways.

Autopumps launched their new website at Automechanika.

Over the last few weeks XChecker 3.1 has been updated with some useful features we'd like to tell you more about.

Elcome’s latest web project is being launched at Automechanika in Frankfurt by Milton Keynes-based Motive Components.
 

Elcome’s continuing drive to support high quality data on MAM’s market leading Autocat+ catalogue will bear fruit this week with the release of the first phase of XChecker’s new Autocat+ Readiness Centre (ARC).

We’re inviting applications to join our Customer Support team.

Elcome has been working on catalogue data projects for Ultra-Parts Ltd for over ten years but the relationship recently stepped up a notch.

Elcome are delighted to announce the launch of the Delta Auto Parts website that went LIVE this week.

Elcome is pleased to announce it has entered a partnership with Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web Content and Customer Experience Management provider, to provide customers with high quality websites.  

Based on feedback from XChecker users, we have developed two new features to provide you with more flexibility and better performance when searching your application data.

Federal-Mogul’s ground-breaking Engine Expertise catalogues, co-produced with Elcome, have now reached volume 5. 

Progress continues in the quest to migrate supplier brands to v8 data on MAM’s Autocat+ catalogue. 

Elcome are delighted to have been heavily involved with such a significant project as the huge, new Ivor Searle website and E-Cat that went LIVE this week. The new on-line presence means the company are being presented to the world better than ever before!

Elcome’s Image Manager product has recently been upgraded with new functions to make it more user-friendly and efficient.

We require 2 new data analysts to join us in our Wroughton office.

Golfers at Swindon's Broome Manor course will see something new on tee 7 as from today. 

A Software Developer is required to develop and support our future and historical software solutions for our internal teams and customers.

Another new company to welcome to our growing band of XChecker users is Shaftec Automotive Components. 

Responding to user feedback, Elcome has released an improvement to how important and mandatory criteria management works in XChecker 3.1.

From the beginning of 2016, Motaquip’s catalogue data has been successfully incorporated into TecDoc’s on-line WEB CATALOG, publishing for the first time during February. Working closely with Elcome’s Data Team and the XChecker system to deliver the data to TecDoc enabled Motaquip to benefit from the experience and expertise that Elcome has as a market leader in data delivery. 

After a long and detailed assessment process – including a significant meeting at AAPEX Las Vegas last November – WAI Global are moving to XChecker to manage their UK and European catalogues and data deliveries.

For 2016, Rob Clulow has been appointed to head up Elcome’s Sales & Marketing team with a brief to continue improving support to existing customers as well as gaining extra business from new clients. 

At their annual Data Supplier convention in Berlin, TecDoc have launched their newest product to the world - TecPMA, and Elcome are proud to be an integral part of it. 

Every November the main players in North America’s auto parts and tuning community congregate in Las Vegas for two of the largest and most important aftermarket events in the calendar, namely the AAPEX and SEMA shows. 2015 saw Elcome attending for the first time as we continue to spread our wings and develop our global product offering. 

The Delta Auto Parts brand (part of Foreign Trading Solutions of London) has migrated its full product range to XChecker for catalogue data handling as stage one, with stage two being a website and eCat build. Expect to see the website live sometime in Q1 2016.

With an eye on the future, Elcome are keen to support the apprenticeship scheme and as such we are pleased to announce the arrival of our very first apprentices, Callum Neate and Lewis Parkinson.

Elcome is pleased to announce the addition of a new member to its Development team, Pedro Barbosa. Pedro has been hired for the position of lead programmer for its web to print solution, Catalogue Creator. 

You’ve all heard about the new V8, if you’re on XChecker 3.1 then good news you’re ahead of the game!

In our continuing upward journey for Quality and Professionalism we have recently created a new Quality Assurance department (QA) headed up by Andy Smithson with the support of Jacki Watt and Sophie Lambeth.

Japan Parts are now fully trained and up-to-speed with Elcome's XChecker 3.1. To find out more information about XChecker.

4 More XChecker training Manuals will be making their way to BM Cats tomorrow as Sophie, our XChecker Guru and Ian, our new business Development Manager head to their offices to train them up on XChecker. 

Corteco have today completed their XChecker 3.1 training, making them completely up-to-date with XChecker’s functionalities.

The Michelin wiper blade ECat (used across Michelin and Pylon) has now gone live via Qualitor's website in China.  

One of the industry's largest National Factor Groups recently announced a partnership with MAM Software that will see major improvement and expansion amongst its catalogue content within MAM’s Autocat+ system.

Elcome recently named Ian Dore as its new Business Development Manager.  Elcome are pleased to welcome Ian, who will join from the 16th March, to this key position on its growing team. 

Our New Business Development Manager will fly to Shanghai to visit the 2nd largest international trade fair for automotive parts, accessories, equipment from the 9-12th December.

Elcome Data Services, a provider of automotive data to the aftermarket brands, is currently looking to employ 15-20 personnel at varying levels to support a very exciting and unique cataloguing service.

Elcome’s application RAS (Range Analysis System) is a versatile and intuitive data analysis tool that, amongst numerous other qualities provides users with an extensive range of reports to analyse, understand and improve their market position. Coupled with Headline’s fully specified (70+ vehicle attributes) Global Car Parc data – spanning 70 countries worldwide – and a diverse range of aftermarket product groups with TecDoc linkages, the RAS system will become the greatest tool in this competitive automotive market.

Elcome and Elcome Data Services will be attending Automechanika Frankfurt from 16th-19th September. For product demonstrations, or more information...