If you answered yes to any of these questions, Navision IDEAS is worth a look.
Based on Microsoft’s award winning Navision ERP software solution, IDEAS is
fully-integrated,

Windows-based software that streamlines your importing and distribution business.
For more than a quarter of a century, CAI has applied advanced,
industry-specific software concepts and technology innovations to everyday
business issues. The IDEAS software was designed by our staff of industry
consultants utilizing the core Navision software
suite, with input from an advisory group of clients and industry experts within
the importing and distribution industries. The result is a modular, end-to-end
ERP solution that is flexible, easy-to-use and enhances performance and
profitability.
CAI customers are located throughout the United States and Canada. Products distributed include:
- Furniture & Other Home Furnishings
- Giftware
- Greeting Cards, Stationery, Invitations
- Health, Beauty & Cosmetics
- Home & Garden
- Household Appliances & Lighting
- House Wares
- Industrial Goods
- Kitchenware
- Linens
- Leather Goods
- Luggage & Travel Accessories
- Paper Products
- Sporting Goods
- Toys, Games, Hobbies & Novelty Items
The IDEAS software system will run your business in a completely graphical
environment utilizing Microsoft standards and open database connectivity to
interface to other industry financial software products such as Microsoft Excel
and Access, Crystal Reports and others. As the requirement for long term
strategic planning becomes more acute to stay abreast of the ever tightening
competitive forces within the import and distribution industries, better and
more accurate management information is not only necessary but also an absolute
pre-requisite.

In order to insure the highest level of management reporting, software
performance and on-going client profitability, CAI has developed a unique
concept within the importing and distribution industries, which is our
‘Guarantee Against Software Obsolescence’. Under this concept, research and
development on advanced computer software processes is on going and results in
the periodic release of new software functionality, which not only meets the
current needs of our business partners but sets the standard for importing
software and distribution software nationwide.