Rich Media – huge advancements have been made in how product information is displayed to you, encouraging users to engage and interact with the content. For a growing number of products, you will be able to view high-res imagery, videos, product data sheets and extended product functionality, providing a simple, yet enhanced customer experience. In-App support – this support feature allows SmartPad users to benefit from an omni-channel experience accessed directly through the SmartPad portal.

Within these lists, buyers can apply multiple layers of rules, authorisations, budgets, restricted views, and favourites, to help manage and aggregate tail spend throughout the full scope of their organisation. For more information, or a comprehensive demo of the tool, please speak to your account manager or use our live chat facility within SmartPad.

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And with the platform’s third iteration having been recently unveiled, SmartPad is more sophisticated than ever. The tablet engages kids’ brains in immersive ways that will make them really dive into each topic. For example, in some toys, kids sing the alphabet over and over to learn the different letters, which is great, but the Smarty Pad takes it a step further. In the “Alphabet” category, kids will see visuals of letters, hear sounds that the letters make, and see images that start with different letters. Kids will learn to really think about the letters visually and phonetically, as well as thinking about words and spelling in more complex ways. Direct technical integration with existing purchasing platforms – including a 99% coverage of all well-known ERP and P2P systems – provides seamless access to our products using your organisation’s existing purchasing platform. And this number is always on the increase, as the platform is continuously supercharged with new lines to meet evolving needs, tastes, and budgets. We can even access third-party products on behalf of our customers!

In 2019, our digital team prioritised stabilising the SmartPad platform, but 2020 is about elevating the functionality, so it’s the market-leading e-tail platform that will revolutionise the way our customers do business with us!” Jason Stothard – Group Digital Director To prevent rogue spending and help organisational leaders keep a firm hold of budgets, authorisation rules can be set to ensure baskets meet a variety of requirements – from maximum product grabs and specific user restrictions, to product list and category refusals. Management Information – coming soon to the platform is a powerful business intelligence tool providing customers with a robust self-serve reporting capability. Using sophisticated AI, the analytics experience is built to transform reporting capability by empowering our SmartPad users to make considered, data-driven decisions. This exciting functionality gives on-demand access to a wide range of detailed management reports – you can choose how much detail you go into – with both high level reports and the ability to conduct deep dive analysis. With the implementation of Zendesk group-wide in November 2019, Zendesk has now been embedded into SmartPad, allowing customers to self-serve. You can now select the support feature in way that you want to consume it – including a range of Help Forms and Live Chat.Designed for preschoolers ages 3-5, this hand-held tablet features 12 educational games, LED visuals, and motion sensors that encourage sensory play to improve cognition and fine motor skills. The games are created from a skill-based curriculum that helps preschoolers learn and practice the alphabet, colors, numbers, and beginner coding, with three different games for each category. So, whether you’re an existing customer looking to boost their ROI, or a prospect who needs a little more convincing, here are 10 of the platform’s most impressive features… The pads can also be used to send MIDI messages to software on a computer. This can be used for a wide variety of functions, depending on the software you are using, from vision switching on streaming software to triggering samples in a DAW. By default, each pad sends an ‘On’ Control Change (CC) message to MIDI Channel 1: pad 1 on bank 1 sends CC #0, the one below CC #1, and so on down the first column, and then the second up to CC #7; this continues across the pad banks, with pad 1 of bank 2 activating CC #8, the pad below CC# 9, and so on. Of course, innovation and ambition never stand still, so the roadmap for SmartPad’s next stage of growth is already underway. But the introduction and augmentation of these features is an important milestone in the development of the platform – helping to satisfy the needs of modern procurement teams, with complete wraparound support. By attributing data to your search, SmartPad will suggest relevant products with a powerful contextual filtering option, and an intuitive correction functionality will also handle misspellings to generate more accurate results.