A catalogue far bigger than the warehouse. Every plant customer has negotiated prices, most orders start as a quote, and much is bought in to order.
System Five is built around how an industrial supply business actually runs — the operating mechanisms below, each backed by documented capabilities. System Five on Cloud is the standard delivery; on-premise deployment is available by request.
System Five includes 108 capabilities this trade draws on directly, within 237 that apply to how it operates — a selection from the full documented set, not a ceiling.
A different price for the trade than for the public — levels, schedules, allowances and accounts that remember them.
Selling what you do not stock — ordered in against the customer's name and tracked until it lands.
Ordering and pricing straight from the people who make it — catalogues, price files and order feeds.
A long sale — quoted, revised, released in stages, invoiced against a project.
Getting the goods to the customer — booked from the sale, loaded, routed and proved delivered.
More than one site or department reading and writing the same records.
Getting a queue through — touch screen, scanning, line busting, parked sales.
Several items sold as one thing — a room package, a build, a bundle — while the stock behind it still moves correctly.
The unit comes back — under warranty, for credit, or to the supplier — and the money and the stock both have to land right.
A work order, a technician, labour and parts against a job — the half of the business that happens after the sale.
A unit with a serial number that has a life history — who bought it, what was done to it, what it is worth now.
Gear that goes out and comes back — rated, booked, returned and charged.
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Every capability behind this page is documented in the System Five capability index. Capabilities outside the standard set are optional.