Case Study: Woodland

Industry

Manufacturing

Project Type

Web Application Suite

creative:

  • - User Experience Design
  • - Information Architecture
  • - Graphic Design

TECHNOLOGY:

  • - ASP.NET, C#.NET, VB.NET
  • - HTML/CSS
  • - JavaScript
  • - AJAX
  • - XML
  • - SQL Server
Case Study: Woodland

Product Configuration & Management Suite

Woodland has endless options available when customizing their build-to-order furniture. A single piece of furniture can have up to 4 million different potential configurations. Woodland could build anything their customers wanted but was becoming embarrassed about how difficult it was to price a piece of furniture by hand. This was leading to multiple calls with customers to clarify orders and Woodland needed to put some standards in place. ThoughtLab worked with Woodland to help define standards and build a system that would allow them to control what could and could not be done for any piece of furniture. This system was then extended to allow sales reps and customers to register and then order online.

Key Features

  • Custom product rule management system with accommodation for complex variations in category, attribute and choice rules
  • Product configuration system that allows sales reps and customers to configure products and get pricing, get custom quotes and save configurations to multiple carts and projects
  • Management of pre-configured, pre-built products for Quick Shipping with special pricing rules
  • Customer registration system to allow customers to manage their own accounts
  • Internal/External user management system with many user groups and roles; full management down to a control by control basis throughout entire system
  • Sales representative system and territory management for both customer service reps and sales reps
  • Sales rep reporting system
  • Customer ordering system