What a tile manufacturer should digitise first
The generic answer is the catalogue. For a tile manufacturer the answer is more specific than that, and the order matters.
Building Materials Technology
Technology in the tile and building materials trade.
Building Materials Technology
Choosing software for a sanitaryware business
Two things decide it, and neither appears in a demonstration: whether it can model a product family, and whether it takes spares seriously.
· 4 min read
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What a building materials business should digitise first
Not the thing that irritates you most. The thing that unblocks everything else.
· 4 min read
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Build, buy, or neither: choosing software for a building materials business
Two of these get discussed. The third is the right answer more often than anyone selling software will tell you.
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Tracking marble slabs: why quantity-based inventory cannot do it
Stone has no unit of stock. Every slab is a distinct object, and almost every inventory system in existence assumes otherwise.
· 4 min read
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What to look for in dealer management software
Most demonstrations show you the dashboard. The things that decide whether it works are never in the demonstration.
· 4 min read
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Why generic ERP breaks on a building materials catalogue
The failure is almost never the ERP. It is that the product model underneath it was designed for goods that are interchangeable.
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Quoting a plumbing project from a bill of materials
Four hundred line items, compatibility rules, and a contractor who wants the price tomorrow. This is where pipe businesses lose days.
· 5 min read
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Selling heavy goods online without shipping them
Order online, collect or receive from the dealer nearest you. It solves the freight problem and the channel problem at the same time.
· 7 min read
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