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National Manufacturing Company integrates
manufacturing, distribution,
merchandising,
and in-store logistics to manage the retail hardware category, ensuring
its customers' success.
National came to Northwoods seeking an easy to use, drag
and drop Planogram tool built to meet their exact needs. Northwoods
was able to leverage its GO++ graphics library and 7 years of experience
in building graphical applications for Windows to quickly deliver
a high quality and usable product.
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The resulting tool dovetails into National's
existing sales process, making salespeople immediately comfortable
and productive. It creates photorealistic models of
store displays that salespeople can print or carry on
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| "PC Planogrammer allows our sales people
to quickly design custom store displays for our customers.
It has become a key part of our salesforce automation plan,
and we are already beginning to see its benefits. Northwoods
came through with a solid product in a very short time frame
-- just a few weeks. More importantly, they created a product
that our sales people are finding very easy to use. And Northwoods
did a great job of customizing the design to meet our unique
needs, including integrating PC Planogrammer into our existing
order entry system.
We expect to see a benefit in terms of higher
quality proposals, increased sales, and fewer ordering mistakes.
In summary, we have been very pleased with what Northwoods
did for us."
Ted Arnold, Director of Sales,
National Manufacturing
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Here's what the National salespeople are saying...
Working with Northwoods software
engineers has been a delight. Northwoods is far more
than a software company. They quickly understand the project by
asking the right questions. The resulting software is easy to use
and produces immediate tangible benefits.
The program is so simple. I have
been using the CD of tiff files, and inserting them in MS PowerPoint,
resizing them, and then trying to line them up properly. The Northwoods
system beats this method 10 ways from Sunday. Thanks for all
your effort and a great tool.
Thank you for the opportunity
to work with the POG program. IT IS
GREAT!!
I did a planogram last night,
I got my software when I got home and did a 43 foot planogram for
that new store. It came out great, it really is amazing, the software
is so incredible. The pictures are so crystal clear. It printed
up beautifully. Definitely super user friendly, and it's so awesome.
I'm really blown away by it. It's really, really incredible.
Nice job. What an amazing tool. Thanks!
I did a layout for <store>
and presented it to them. Needless to say, they were more than impressed.
They asked me who did the layout and if it was done at the factory
or by me. I explained to them that this was our new PC Planogrammer
and that this gave us the ability to actually show what their department
would look like. They decided to go ahead with the new layout for
the department based on the Planogrammer presentation. This is definitely
an added plus to our presentation ability when re-merchandising
or selling new accounts. It gives a very professional look in the
presentation process and also makes the customer feel confident
about what you are going to do.
It has been a lot of fun
working with the Planogrammer and I
am sure the other
salespeople will feel the same.
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