Does O/PUS belong to ECi DDMS or to Trade Service?
Trade Service Corporation acquired O/PUS®, ECi ’s supplier content division. Trade Service has been providing product and price updating service to office products dealers since 1917 though its acquisition of Moore Services. The company offers a wide selection of wholesaler and manufacturer content, including The Moore File, one of the industry’s leading multi-vendor item catalogs. As office products dealers expand their business and increasingly leverage the Internet for online sales, content becomes more important than ever. Dealers will benefit from having O/PUS content managed by an independent third party with long-standing relationships with industry suppliers and buying groups. Trade Service will leverage the power of the OPdb® multi-vendor catalog database and O/PUS’ technology (SIMPLE, Super Index, O/PUS Scanalog, etc.) to provide the most advanced content services and technology available to the office products industry. Both ECi and Trade Service are committed to ensuring th