I began buying Miami product full time in January of this year. I would fill in for the buyer prior to that. I was introduced to Floralship during that time. Now that I have that added responsibility, I have to juggle my time between all my responsibilities. Having Floralship as a tool has been a great asset to me. Not only do I see product and price, I get notification and confirmation, where I get written documents I can refer to. If there is a problem, I get notification of that, and have time to find the product elsewhere! I'm not spending half of my mornings on the phone, chasing product down.

I am available to talk to my customers and sell product as well. When I get orders after my Miami vendors are gone (we are 2 hours time difference), I can sign on to Floralship and check availability.

For me, Floralship is a valuable tool!

Greenleaf is a strong supporter and user of the Floralship Platform. Their goal is to leverage the system to bring efficiencies to many areas of their operations. Floralship provides them with many solutions that they are implementing in different stages and areas of their operations.

Greenleaf is presently in a ramp up with 8 of their stores to implement the systems for wholesale buying on line through the Floralship system, working closely with the suppliers that are posting on line. Scott Kitayama, President of Greenleaf, stated "In the long term, we feel that every extra minute with Floralship will save an hour of paperwork for the Manager/Buyer."

Floralship is the Wal-Mart® of flower purchasing. The convenience and ease of one-stop shopping "under one roof" is a valuable timesaver for me as manager. Floralship allows me to search for whatever I need from a variety of vendors, purchase the product at the best value and select my shipping option. I can ship it on my normal truck schedule, Fed Ex or even Armellini Air. With Floralship I dont have to make multiple phone calls to vendors and haggle over price as well. Time is money in the floral industry and Floralship lets me accomplish both.

Floralship has become for Zieger, one of those tool that you cannot do without in your toolbox. In the beginning we utilized the wholesale buying platform, saving time and money by scanning many inventories at one time. What use to take hours to source, now takes a matter of minutes. We then allowed our customers to view and purchase from the same inventories our buyers could. Our customers were not bound to our traditional business hours. They could buy what they wanted, from which importer they chose, at any time of the day or night was convenient. After establishing a good retail/online base, we then permitted our sales saff the same luxoury. The sales staff could buy directly for the retailer even if that retailer was uncomfortable purchasing online for themselves. Zieger even took the entire purchasing module to the next level, becoming completly integrated with Floralship. No matter at what level the purchase was made, our internal system could process they information provided by Floralship.

FloralShip has been instrumental in revolutionizing my buying. It saves me time and makes it easy to find the products I am looking for at prices that save me money. Every floral wholesaler should implement FloralShip to help with their buying needs.

FloralShip's Wholesale Buying system certainly has the power to turn the wholesale floral industry on its head. FloralShip's web-based system is extremely intuitive and convenient and, by "lighting up" the real-time availabilities of its vast supplier network, FloralShip creates tremendous efficiencies in sourcing and logistics that every wholesaler so desperately needs.