Cortec is designed to meet the needs of businesses that buy, stock, process and sell industrial commodities. Because all businesses are different, Cortec is modular.

The modules of Cortec can be combined and configured to build a system that supports all aspects of an organisation’s trading activities.

Growing a business always involves change. Cortec adapts to business change enabling an organisation to expand vertically and horizontally. By reconfiguring existing modules, new business processes can be modified to manage higher turnover. By adding new modules Cortec can provide seamless, integrated support for new activities.

Cortec is built around a core system that provides services, transaction processing and essential functionality common to all Cortec systems.

Key features of the core system :

• Multi-location, multi-mode stock holding
• Full multi-currency for all transactions
• Comprehensive, multi-location business partner information
• Sophisticated rule driven price & discount structure
• Totally flexible attribute driven product definitions
• Extensive reporting capabilities using Microsoft® Excel export
• Powerful Windows desktop integration to Microsoft® Office
• Email & Fax generation via Microsoft® Outlook
• European VAT handling for Single Market trading
• Automatic integration to third party financials
• Configurable data views, user access and capability controls

Cortec Business Drivers provide the flexibility and industry / sector functionality. Standard Business Drivers are configured for specific industry and industry sector requirements dictated by the nature of your business. Each Business Driver is made up of different combinations of modules which can be combined and configured to suit the needs of different businesses.

Examples include :

Where a business needs to add specific features to their system, Cortec offers a range of additional, fully integrated modules (some of which are included in standard industry specific Business Drivers).