Wholesale Distribution Reporting System

The wholesale distribution reporting system is using .NET desktop technologies to provide aid in sale/purchase, accounting, and inventory domain. It is a comprehensive business solution using an ERP solution for quicker and easier inquiries to the financial data.

KEY CHALLENGES

The client firm, a wholesale distribution software consulting company based in LA, California, has provided complete business solutions to its customers using an ERP solution (based on the Progress 9.1D database). Their sales/purchase reporting, accounting, and inventory reporting application was too small and required redesign to make it easier and faster to respond to financial data from multiple companies in a group, with better visual reporting and reporting capabilities to cater usability requirements of the potential customers.

ValueCoders took this challenge and designed a robust, modular, scalable, and configurable software, a desktop application, to meet the end user or customer needs.

When they hired ValueCoders, we had to address to the following tasks:

• A comprehensive business solution was required to manage financial data for multiple companies in a group
• Client-side should be focussing on various challenges and demands faced by distribution industry
• A distribution reporting system with better visual &  text reporting features

While developing, we faced various challenges including the following ones:

• Gathered all risks and impact from the system
• To display huge datasets in real-time from a Progress database
• Developing a single system to tackle all these risks and problem

Our developers at ValueCoders had overcome these challenges with their innovative ideas and technical expertise.

RESULTS

The expert team at ValueCoders developed a .NET desktop application with new inquiry  screens, showing data for sales, cash accounts, inventory values, and purchases along with the accounting screen. The application facilitates comparative analysis and allows viewing and  managing of up to 9 years of data where each module offers views of both currents as well as previous year data.

Moreover, it provides full visual aids like bar charts, simple data structuring, gauge graphs, and auto-scheduling of reports on a daily basis. The application provides following user-friendly features:

• Configurable Gauge Graphs- it is used to change the gauge graph calibration to meet the client’s needs.
• Customizable Toolbar- with which you can choose from the available multiple screens.
• User Settings/ Preferences-to save graph settings, criteria-screen selections, decimal places.
• User Settings/ Preferences-to save graph settings, criteria-screen selections, decimal places.

ValueCoders successfully executed the Wholesale Distribution Reporting System well within the time frame. The client achieved its target of making a user-friendly Wholesale Distribution Reporting System and adding custom functions too. In fact, they showed a great interest in extending more work with us.

It was a learning experience for ValueCoders to work on this development project that has helped the client and brought in repeat business as well. We ensured that the client and the development team were on the same page by frequent collaboration and regularly making use of project reporting tools. Agile methodologies were used throughout the time to discuss, improve and implement solutions before the final delivery of the application.