Staverton Building Supplies
The project
Implementation of Solarsoft’s xVP, a comprehensive integrated business platform designed for wholesalers, distributors and merchants who need to provide a high level of customer satisfaction while keeping tight controls on operating costs and profit margins. xVP is designed to help businesses maximize sales opportunities, increase margins and improve credit control. The software employs a Windows based user interface for ease of training and is readily adapted and customized to meet individual customer requirements.
Customer Profile
Based in Gloucester, England, Staverton Building Supplies sells a wide range of building materials to trade buyers and members of the public via its Staverton depot. The company installed Solarsoft’s xVP software solution to streamline its internal operations and meet its future expansion plans. At present Staverton Building Supplies consists of one branch with a view to opening further depots.
The solution
xVP is a comprehensive integrated business platform for distributors, wholesalers and merchants. It has been tailored for Staverton Building Supplies to take into account the company’s specific needs as a start-up builders’ merchant. xVP is helping the business utilise and grow its sales opportunities, improve credit control and increase profit margins. The software solution is also able to provide invaluable sales and management information to enable Staverton Building Supplies to refine its business strategy for expansion.
The benefits
Staverton Building Supplies is utilising the software within its trade counter and accounts operations. xVP has enabled fast order entry at the trade counter. All entries now include quick and easy searches for existing customers, products, line-by-line credit control, margin warnings and customers’ product specific sales history. The order entry system can be further extended by realtime integration to the Internet and e-business applications. This solution has meant the eradication of much manual order entry, saving the company labour time.
It is key that building materials are competitively priced to encourage repeat business while sustaining profit margins. Staverton Building Supplies is now able to promptly access a customer’s purchase history and invoice status, enabling the merchant to offer loyalty discounts, set competitive pricing for bulk orders and keep up to date with balances owing.
The software solution has streamlined the company’s invoicing and statementing procedures and is able to consolidate invoices for regular customers. As the company grows, Staverton Building Supplies will implement xVP’s stock management tool, keeping check on real time stock supplies as orders are entered and dispatched.
xVP will have paid for itself in a year ...
“This software solution will have paid for itself by the end of the first year. It has enabled the business to grow without taking on new staff, meaning we have been able to keep overheads down. We are generally saving about 40% of labour time as the software has cut out the need for manual management of our supply orders, dispatches and invoicing,”
Mark Hanks, Partner Staverton Building Supplies
Summary
xVP is a powerful and flexible software system that enables business owners and managers to maximise operating efficiency while improving service and expanding sales and profits. Staverton Building Supplies is confident that xVP will complement and assist their expansion plans.