Field Enablement and Business Process Platform
Enterprise system digitizes business functions within Stone Martin Builders including material order placement, processing and fulfillment
The Overview
The BuilderLinq enterprise system digitizes many business functions within Stone Martin Builders including material order placement, processing and fulfillment. Using the Place Order Module Stone Martin employees can order homebuilding supplies from any job site - users can search for parts, build up an order and place the order from the field. All orders can be managed by back-office administrators including order approval, automated injection into the Stone Martin ERP system to vendor selection, order placement and purchase order emailing.
The
Challenge
Timely material provisioning and delivery is particularly crucial in custom homebuilding and a large amount of human time is traditionally involved in getting it right. Stone Martin are active building out entire communities and workers in the field and are often in need of materials in the flow of construction. At Stone Martin’s current scale, the traditional way of ordering and provisioning materials was impacting their ability to build homes.
The
Solution
The solution that Stone Martin and MercuryWorks staff devised leverages Stone Martin’s custom BuilderLinq system. The new Place Order module fully integrates with Stone Martin’s ERP system, provides a mobile-friendly enterprise app for field use usually on a tablet and automates multiple processes in the supply chain.
The
Results
The enterprise web application Place Order module carried out the full original vision along with multiple additional business rules to take advantage of business process improvements. The end solution gave rise to an entirely new vendor portal to facilitate quick fulfillment and vendor payment for the materials and services needed. From auto-approval of orders within specified spend limits to automatic vendor selection and ordering, the Place Order module speeds up material and service ordering.
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Other Key Highlights
25% Processing Cost Decrease
With highly specific orders coming in from the field, automated approvals and vendor selection and payment, Stone Martin has actualized growth in orders without adding staff
10% Order Fulfillment Time Reduction
ERP integration and purchase order automation has reduced the elapsed time between order need and delivery, getting material and service out to the field more quickly
30% Vendor Payment Cycle Reduction
ACH payment automation and messaging along with a self-service vendor portal has reduced the amount of time it takes Stone Martin to approve and make payment
"Thanks so much for being diligent and receptive to all our requests and most especially the change requests that have really dialed the new Place Order Module into a new cornerstone. Also, thank you for keeping the momentum up on all the other projects simultaneously - we can't even imagine doing it with anyone else."
Scott Lowery
CTO
Behind The Curtain
Core Technology
.NET Core
C#, Entity Framework and the .NET Core were used to implement all business logic and data marshaling for the application. Enterprise authentication practices and Core tie-ins provide a locked-down and robust security platform.
SQL Server
Provides a robust data storehouse and query platform to store all enterprise data, marshal data for integration and provide a source to the app’s API tier. In-cloud SQL Server was used to provide instant scalability and rapid querying.
Microsoft Azure
Provides database storage, web app, authentication and web services. Azure provides an ideal solution for back end mobile applications with a multi-data center Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud solution.
React
The React JavaScript framework provides the UI base for the entire system, providing rapid and smooth data fetching, storage and screen painting. Supporting use of modern CSS provides interaction and responsive display.