Husqvarna has announced an exclusive contract with ProQuest Media Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest Company, to provide an inventory query, price look-up and ordering solution.

The ProQuest eConnect solution provides real-time inventory availability, pricing status, purchase order submittal and purchase order confirmation receipt. Dealers will be able to submit parts orders seamlessly to Husqvarna’s business system directly from their dealer management systems, eliminating duplicate order entry. With this end-to-end solution, orders will be received and processed more quickly and accurately.

This new system will enable dealers to quickly check inventory and pricing, submit orders and receive order confirmation 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This crucial information will enable the dealer to provide customers with better information at the time of purchase, increasing customer and dealer satisfaction.

The system will be available to U.S. dealers in early spring 2005.