Mayer Materials Manager acknowledges the positive effect on an organization's competitiveness of up-to-date information about its trading partners. Thus the system has been designed to store an extensive amount of commercial information, as well as non-commercial intelligence.

The application's database enables companies to build comprehensive business profiles of their trading partners, which are centrally managed and can be accessed on-line from any location. This means that business managers can share market information, keep in touch with their trading partners and thus enhance customer service.