Challenge
Our USA based client manufactures cubical curtains for the healthcare industry. They were facing problems for tracking and managing quotes, cost estimation and determining BOM. They wanted a web application that could be accessed by their distributors so that the specification entered by them was directly available to manufacturers. The key objective was to develop a small, light and portable application that smoothen their process.
Key challenges were:
- Convert the Photoshop design file into Silverlight XAML design with an animation
- Graphical representation of Curtains as per the curtain shape selection
Expertise
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Programming Language :
C#
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Database :
Microsoft SQL Server
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Development Tool :
Visual Studio, Silverlight
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Framework :
Microsoft .Net Framework
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Reporting tool :
Crystal Report
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Other Tool :
Microsoft Expression Blend
Solution
TatvaSoft developed a web-based applications on Microsoft Silverlight platform with following core features:
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Administration
- It facilitates an administrator to manage the basic information such as system users, distributors, tiers of distributors, default rates, etc., which are used to auto-generate quote and bill of material.
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Distributor
- Manage Users: It facilitates distributors to create and manage users on their premise
- Manage Sales Distributors: A distributor can select a sales person who makes sure that the distributor will get their material/product as per their quotation
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Quote Management
- A distributor can generate and manage its customers' profiles
- Track the specification of curtains per room
- Estimate cost per room and total
- Generate quotation and BOM
- Administration: This module takes care of master data like users, distributors, tiers, default values, etc.
- Distributor This module manages following activities:
- Manage Users: It facilitates distributors to create and manage users on their premise.
- Manage Sales Distributors: A distributor can select a salesperson who makes sure that the distributor will get their material/product as per their quotation.
- Quote Management:
- A distributor can generate and manage its customers' profiles
- Track the specification of curtains per room
- Estimate cost per room and total
- Generate quotation and BOM
- Based on given specification of curtains and required hardware, a graphical representation of rails is created having information like Track type, Room and total quantity.
- My Account: It helps users to manage their own login credential and profile details.
- Reports: It provides reports on sale cost, trace materials on high demand, etc.
- Sales: A salesperson can see curtain and room cost per customer as well as can manage credentials and profile details of his account.
Result
Bill of Material Generator application offers following benefits.
- Curtains and hardware specs management for individual room and customers will become easy
- Cost estimation is done automatically based on the provided quote. Hence, it reduces efforts for complex calculations and saves time.
- Generation of BOM will become easy and error free.
- It will help to estimate stoke/production of required hardware.
