Fiber cable industry provides a variety of products in market. Most of them are standard items. Client of vteam #167 was using a portal application which quote customers from its warehouse stock. The need arose to build such a system which is capable of handling both stock and custom items. vteams engineers were required to create a custom configurator application that would create new parts and align them with NetSuite CRM. The end result would be over 155 million custom fiber combinations.
Implementation:
To create custom configurator application, following steps were implemented:
User Interface:
UI was developed according to Fiber cable industry standard components. Using these UI controls, customers would get the facility to create items of their own choice.
Forecasting System:
This system was developed in back-end to prepare custom items with their complete information i.e.:
- Pricing
- Delivery Time
- Shipping Cost
- Product Code
.
Item Alias Generation:
This module was developed to control the representation of parts’ numbers for different vendors.
Box UI Grid:
This grid was developed to view the status of items created which would differentiate stock and new items.
Pricing System:
Specialized pricing system was developed to control product cost flow based on price level for each customer.
Quotes Format:
This functionality was added to email customer quotes in HTML/PDF format.
Push Controls:
Web services based push controls were developed to synchronize cart details in NetSuite CRM. It helped our client to generate complex financial transactions through just one click.
JSON Response Handling:
XAJAX framework was used to handle JSON response for manipulating content in UI controls.
Conclusion:
vteam #167 provided an effective solution in terms of meeting client’s requirements. Other than this, custom configurator application minimized manual workload of users associated with NetSuite Financial System.
