Microsoft Dynamics AX allows you to manage all your daily commercial and logistics processes. With the solution for the Building Supply Industry you can deal with the characteristic working methods that are unique to the building industry.

The process starts with setting down the opportunities, such as potential building projects that are of interest to your organisation. You register the entire sales information concerning all the relevant building projects in the Netherlands. The commencement date, building phase, building type, contact details of the decision-makers and project managers and construction estimates. You record the request for quotes of the various customers on the registered building project. This provides you with a clear overview of which quotes belong to which building project. Manually maintaining such overviews has become a thing of the past.

In order to support the drafting of quotes a comprehensive calculation tool is now available. The result of the calculation is a high-quality and faultless quote, with which you can set yourself apart in the market.

After the customer has accepted the quote, it can be automatically converted into a project. The entire project set-up can be structured dynamically. As of the preparation of the project there is a total graphics project planning of all the activities and project phases, including the associated capacity and materials planning. The project starts with working out the product specifications in detail, which may be supported by engineering activities. If you supply products that have advanced requirements in the area of unit conversion, then this is also supported.

Any approvals by the client are incorporated in the project as milestones, so that it is possible to work carefully towards the final project specifications.

The delivery schedules are produced on the basis of these final product specifications. It is easy to produce a flexible matrix of products and associated delivery times. This matrix forms the basis of an effective production planning. The production process and production schedule are fully integrated within the project, so that a truly integral planning can be carried out. The production planning supports flat-line planning, mould planning, planning of unique products and other standard capacity plans. An additional advantage of the integration of projects and production is that the status of the work in progress is always clear and reliable.

After production, products must be transported and in some cases installed. The AXcelerator for the Building Supply Industry supports your transport planning. On the basis of volume and weight in combination with destinations you can quickly put together and plan your freight. Any external workers you need to hire for the installation can be scheduled through the planning of the total project. The availability of these resources can be clearly seen immediately.

The results of all the logistics transactions are of course recorded in the financial administration. If you hire external workers the calculations for the Wet Keten Aansprakelijkheid (Act on ultimate responsibility for payment of taxes and social security contributions) are fully automated. The processing of the purchase invoices is electronically supported so that you are able to realise significant cost savings.

You are able to record problems and their solution as the AXcelerator allows you to carry out a complaints administration for the Building Supply. Any issues that arise in your organisation, along with their solution, can be recorded, monitored and settled centrally.

In short, using the AXcelerator for the Building Supply enables you to carry out your total commercial, logistical and administrative processes more efficiently and effectively. As your system has been optimally set up, you can be that reliable partner for your customers.