For most
contract
sales
distributors, new
business
generation
begins
with an
industry
specific
bidding
process.
Often
this
process
is
handled one
of three
ways;
within
an
industry
specific
software
application,
within
unstructured
software
applications
like
Microsoft
Excel
and
Word, or
worst
case;
manually.
The
common
thread
with all
three is
there is
typically
no
integration
from the
Front-End,
the
sales
and
detailing
process,
to the
Back-End,
the
business
management
processes.
contractERP™
ends
this
disparate
costly
re-keying
process
by
providing
two
alternatives
for
bridging
your
Front to
your
Back.
-
contractERP’s
Bid
Management
Solution
–
All
inside
our
base
solution,
manage
the
entire
process
including
the
issuing
of
an
estimate;
distributing
the
estimate
to
multiple
bidders;
adjusting
the
sale
price
per
bidder,
split
the
bid
across
multiple
winners;
converting
the
estimate
to a
detailed
material
list
and
finally
moving
the
status
from
a
bid
to a
contract.
Front-End
to
Back-End
becomes
transparent
within
the
company.
-
contractERP’s
Estimate
/
Detail
Integration
Solution
–
Often
due
to
complex
drawing
requirements
and
vendor
price
catalogs,
specific
specialty
building
product
industries,
like
the
Architectural
Openings
Industry,
will
already
have
robust
Estimating
and
Detailing
software
solutions
that
are
in
use
today
and
continue
to
advance.
Situations
like
this
are
best
supported
with
a
“best-of-breed”
approach.
contractERP’s
Integration
functionality
creates
a
seamless
bridge
between
these
true
front-end
applications
and
contractERP’s
Back-End.
contractERP's
deep
understanding
of the
specialty
building
products
industry
allows
businesses
to merge
into it,
all
critical
business
data
related
to a
contract.
This
includes
detailed
material
requirements,
including
all
finite
product
attributes,
and specific
architectural
tag
no.’s
that
then
allow you
to
correct
route
material
purchases
and
shipments,
detailed
cost
information
as well
as
specific
components
and
preps
required
for a
material
requirement.
The time
savings
and
error
reductions
by not
having
to
re-key
this
data
offers
our
clients
dramatic
Front to
Back
cost
benefit,
freeing
up a
tremendous
amount
of
manual
labor
for
other
tasks.
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