Building Supplies and Materials

Building materials and supplies are almost uniquely expensive to store and hold in stock relative to their sales value. So for wholesalers and distributors in a multi-branch, multi-channel environment, balancing stock holdings against customer demand requires sophisticated sales, purchasing and inventory management.

Challenges

• Optimising inventory levels
• Ensuring delivery times
• Controlling costs and sales margins
• Managing rebates and supported pricing
  

Industry-specific functionality

OneOffice is designed and developed to meet the needs of the wholesale and distribution building supplies industry; functionality includes:

• Purchase requirements forecasting - ensuring the customer gets what they need when they need it through suggested purchase order production.
• Customer specific pricing agreements - regardless of whether the order is placed by phone, over the web, via EDI etc.
• Margin management - ensuring tight control over costs and supplier rebates and claimbacks.
• Full batch and serial number traceability - at product level where required.
• Stock optimisation - stock system optimised for high throughput plus multi-warehouse, shared stock handling.
• Fully integrated and sophisticated web trading and catalogue support.
• Returns material administration - including the management of warranties, regrades and stock write-downs.
• Sophisticated, yet simple to use, order processing facilities – manages alternatives, kits and BOMs, accessories, back-to-back and direct shipments; has a comprehensive range of customer pricing mechanisms.
• Powerful management information options - including online KPIs and exception reporting.