National Construction Firm - Purchasing, Plant Hire and Site System

This customer has used all major releases of the purchasing software since 1994 - from DOS, through Windows and into Web based applications. They have recently merged materials processing and plant hire into a single unified purchasing database to streamline the systems. The system also features an interface to AXiM Construction Accounts.

Features

• 15 user office system
• Plant control and materials purchasing processing a combined 900 orders per month
• Site based requisition entry and enquiries
• Site based delivery recording
• Remote reporting for site agents
• Extensive suite of reports for orders, deliveries, invoices and requisitions
• Automatic faxing of purchase orders to suppliers
• POD matching to orders - both site and office based
• 3-way-matching of invoices
• Invoice interface into AXiM Accounts
• Secure off-site backups for added durability

Configuration Details

• Database: Firebird SQL
• Database size: 350MB
• Primary Server Current continuous uptime: 41 days [previous best at 888 days!]
• Number of records in largest table: 282,219
• Primary Server Processor: P4 1.8GHz
• Primary Server Memory: 512MB