Better Deals For Independent Eyecare Centers Austin, TX — September 18, 2012 — Clarity Ventures has announced the launch of a website for its newest partner, The Newton Group. The Newton Group is a buying group serving hundreds of eyecare centers across America, giving them a means to collectively negotiate better prices on frames, lenses, solutions, cases, and medical equipment. “Buying groups can be an excellent resource for small businesses in any industry, and growth of The Newton Group proves just how beneficial these savings can be,” said Ron Halversen, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Clarity Ventures. “The Newton Group’s new site is a win-win situation for the company itself and its customers. TNG has been able to increase its business exponentially, and those in the buying group can save money.” Buying group members also have the advantage of reducing the number of invoices coming in, because their entire inventory usually ends up coming from TNG. That means one invoice to deal with instead of perhaps a dozen from multiple contact lens manufacturers and frame providers. Previous iterations of The Newton Group’s ERP platform were manually based and labor-intensive for its fulfillment team, relying primarily on phone calls and fax orders. Clarity President and CEO Chris Reddick described some of the challenges for the project. “We successfully completed an integration to an internal ERP system that was completely custom. In fact, the original ERP vendor had gone out of business. We worked with TNG’s internal team and built out a flat file based integration and FTP capability so that their team could upload and download flat files securely.” Clarity also created a role-based system where administrators from different member locations can manage roles and access of employees within their organization. This means that someone from a branch can order equipment, but the order needs to be approved by someone from the corporate office. This also allows branches to see their own accounts without having access to the accounts of other branches. The Newton Group has already seen record sales since the launch, with business growing every day. Click on this link to learn more about the ERP integrations Clarity offers. About Clarity Clarity Ventures has been serving clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies for more than 15 years. Services include integration, eCommerce, web portals, web design and development, and more. Clarity continues to see impressive growth year after year and is on track to become the next "Who's Who" in eCommerce software integration. While remaining lean and mean, Clarity is about to experience another round of growth that will bring on board some of the brightest minds available in the marketplace. About The Newton Group The Newton Group has been proudly serving eye care professionals since 1982. From our beginning in the basement of Dr. James Bond’s practice, we quickly grew to become an industry leader in providing services for the independent practitioner community. Today, we are one of the largest purchasing alliances in the country, processing and shipping thousands of frames, lenses, and soft contact lens orders daily for members nationwide.