Technology in the tile and building materials trade.
Building Materials Technology
Discounts must show a prior price drawn from 30 days of history, dark patterns become an audited certificate, and complaints get a clock. Most of it is a data problem before it is a design one.
· 10 min read
Building Materials Technology
The generic answer is the catalogue. For a tile manufacturer the answer is more specific than that, and the order matters.
· 4 min read
Building Materials Technology
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
Building Materials Technology
Digitise the catalogue first. Every system you build afterwards reads from it, and if it is wrong, everything downstream inherits the error.
· 5 min read
Building Materials Technology
Two of these get discussed. The third is the right answer more often than anyone selling software will tell you.
· 4 min read
Building Materials Technology
Stone has no unit of stock. Every slab is a distinct object, and almost every inventory system in existence assumes otherwise.
· 4 min read
Building Materials Technology
Most demonstrations show you the dashboard. The things that decide whether it works are never in the demonstration.
· 4 min read
Building Materials Technology
The failure is almost never the ERP. It is that the product model underneath it was designed for goods that are interchangeable.
· 4 min read
Building Materials Technology
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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