Benefits

Improve Profit Margins
DDI's comprehensive Margin Manager guarantees that selling prices are constantly updated to stay ahead of cost increases, automatically maintaining your company's profitability. Integrated into Sales Order management, sLap!, and FastWeb e-commerce, Margin Manager will eliminate 'profit leaks' throughout your operations.

Build Sales
Order Pad reveals 'Due to-Buy' items, and maintains product pricing. Opportunity Manager analyzes your customer sales history, finding 'Due-to-Buy' products that are beyond your customer's usual buying pattern. DDI's unique Opportunity Manager presents these customers to your field and telephone sales force, displaying customer status, opportunity information for re-order, or accepting a next-call follow-up date.

Improve Communications
Task Messaging delivers user-specific tasks and information directly to your staff. Minimize paper printouts and replace them with real-time, actionable on-screen follow-ups. Automatically generated task messages, including low inventory notification, credit hold orders, low gross profit orders, special order item received. The DDI System can provide over 25 optional user-specific notifications.

Properly Handle Units of Measure
Unit of Measure can be confusing. inform 2008 introduces the easiest to use, yet remarkably thorough Unit of Measure system on the market. Unlimited units for sheets, reams, cases, and palettes. Price by each, case or hundred weight.

Save Time and Money
Minimize and even eliminate paper-based business processes using DDI's proven paperless workflows. Professionally formatted business documents can be laser-printed, faxed or e-mailed with ease. Single copy, process-specific sales orders and shipment confirmation eliminates pre-printed and multi-part forms. Optional Signature Capture eliminates proof-of-delivery hassles and most filing, while saving thousands of dollars annually.

Streamline Operations
DDI introduces better work flows that transform your business into a more efficient, smoother running operation. Real-time information flow, on-screen expediting notes, and intelligent task messages help you create a smooth running operation that you and your staff will have the confidence to rely on.