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Our Vision!: The Right Parts from the Right Place from the Right People! The Right Parts are OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) parts. The Right Place for the parts you need is “already in your town” The Right People are the Local Independent Parts Distributors. These are typically small businesses that maintain a local OEM Parts Inventory and maintain a trained service staff. Parts sold by national distributors take $ directly out of the local community. When service is required locally, we believe that it would be in your best interest to have a trained technician respond to your service needs. It costs a lot of money to provide ongoing training to service technicians. Local parts sales help fund that training. Through CKPS.COM, you will not only support the local distributor and economy, but you will also save on freight costs and more often than not, the parts themselves. THE CKPS.COM STORY: OUR WHY! We decided to become a solution to the problem instead of adding to it. In doing so, we have created systems that route all orders from throughout the USA to local authorized distributors, providing an opportunity for them to fill the order locally. The foodservice industry began to change at an increasing pace several years ago. Interestingly, one of the changes (parts distribution model) not only harms the various segments of our industry, but also poses health risk situations to the general public and creates serious cost concerns for the end user of restaurant equipment. The dominance of the Internet coupled with the efficiencies of major freight companies helped create this change. As we have seen in 2009, CHANGE is not always a good thing. Initially, CKPS.COM was created as an offensive mechanism to help one company regain sales lost to national distributors over the Internet. When the site went live in 2008, orders began to flow in from across the United States. Typically one would jump up and down shouting success as the order volume increased, but the founders of CKPS.COM realized that they had created a mechanism that would only add to the problem. We decided to become a solution to the problem instead of adding to it. In doing so, we have created systems that route all orders from throughout the USA to local authorized distributors, providing an opportunity for them to fill the order locally. The end result: Independent Distributors now have the competitive advantage. They are able to fully participate in e-commerce while avoiding the substantial costs associated with such an endeavor. By agreeing to sell only OEM PARTS under one brand & one account (CKPS.COM), Independent Distributors are able to leverage their many locations and collective inventories. They are providing increased parts availability while providing a decrease in freight costs to the many types of Internet buyers. Manufacturers supporting the company also have seen an increase in their own parts sales as distributors’ orders to them have risen. They recognize CKPS.COM as a significant tool in the reduction of generic parts sales. This reduction enhances the overall safety of the end user. Most importantly is the end user. CKPS.COM facilitates the availability and affordability of OEM Parts. Facilities that take advantage of this site are safer and realize that downtime is on the decline. The customer enjoys the peace of mind that comes from eating at an establishment that supports this OEM solution, knowing that they are eating food that is safe. Every segment of the restaurant industry is better off through CKPS.COM. The only companies that would disagree are the ones who inspired our ideas in the first place. One final note: Even the national distributors who tout “only OEM” are by default increasing the demand for generic parts. Supporting local business is healthy in so many ways. The solution to the problem is CKPS.COM. |