This is Tess (an InterLockian).

There are many different types of InterLockians (M8’s, Pixelites, Fair-locks, Eightlings and InterLockers) Each one performs a highly skilled function within the world of InterLock.

Tess heads up our A&V Inventory management team.

When we first started Tessell8 one of our core principles was “if we have to click it twice we’ll find a way to not click it at all”.

We want to spend more time understanding our clients and their business and not be distracted with handling our day to day. 

Off the back of this InterLock was born.

InterLock is our own global order and process management system. We have developed this from scratch rather than buy in an off the shelf or SAAS system we can’t control. We all know what it’s like when one of our favourite features gets retired because the new shiny way is quicker and ‘bettererer’ (except of course, it’s not).

It’s basically our own back office software that manages all the day to day transactions between our clients and partners around the world. Every day InterLock Ians handle orders via the incoming sales channels, making a number of business decisions and posting these out to our manufacturing partners and handling the transactional interaction until the orders are closed out.

For many of our clients we reduce their direct costs and risk by taking on the risk for elements of their supply chain. Essentially we handle the inventory and the risk within an agreed period. The upshot is a very complex and multi faceted actual (A) and virtual (V) inventory management requirement.

This week sees one of the most significant releases to InterLock for a long time.

We will put the finishing touches to the newest version of InterLock with A & V inventory built in.

That’s where Tess comes in.

Tess (and her team) will be beavering away in the background to keep an end to end transparent visibility of the SKUs, the risk and maturity dates at a component level.

Almost all of our clients will use this new system but, sadly, none of our customers will even know it’s there, or even know who Tess is.

So, hers’s a shout out to Tess and all the interlockians, busy, beavering away in the background, day and night, so we all don’t have to!