Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk 6 THE door industry journal summer 2023 Industry News Expel the Myth! The purpose of RapidSpec software is to increase bottom-line profit for its users. The better the software, the greater the increase in additional profit. How does RapidSpec increase profit? By reducing the amount of work involved in quoting and fulfilling a project. Our research tells us that administration will account for 20-30% of the total manufacturing cost of a door or door set. Manufacturers need to create bills of materials and workstation documentation for shop floor manufacture. Typically, this takes 25% of an estimator’s time. This work is done automatically by our software, releasing about 10 hours per week of an estimator’s time. This time can be used to achieve increased sales and or customer service. Even if manufacturers already have some kind of system in place, RapidSpec can give you even greater productivity. Raising productivity is of course the same as increasing profit: from an operational point of view, there is no difference! RapidSpec automatically prices door sets, creates cutting lists for all the materials you need for any project, and makes sure everything is right the first time. It also automatically produces door set drawings, so that your customers and your team can see and know exactly what is ordered. When a project quotation is confirmed as an order what is purchased and what is delivered is exactly as that order, no mistakes. The elimination of errors is another valuable feature of RapidSpec. It’s sometimes scary to look back over a year and calculate how much bottom-line profit is lost by errors. Wrongly specified or sized glass, door cores cut to the wrong size, doors that don’t quite fit frames, wrong veneer, wrong finish and anything can go wrong with ironmongery. When you have software that automatically works out everything that you need, without error, at the very least you have peace of mind. It’s easy to set up and easy to administer. Customers love the way it transforms part of the whole manufacturing process. There are a few versions of RapidSpec available including: - ‘RapidSpec FlashQuote’ This is a new version of RapidSpec which reduces input time and produces quotations for doors and door sets with frames, hinges and locks vision panels, push plates, kick plates, etc. After the initial project set-up (a 5-minute job), it will deliver auto pricing, quotation and door set drawings all in less than a minute, freeing up time for your people to produce more quotations in the time they have available. Yes, you’re specifying a customer door every time in less than a minute! Often manufacturers see administration software as a cost. RapidSpec is not and never will be a cost.
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