December 2011
Dear Valued Partner
It is our mission at DMSi to help your company achieve superior efficiency and profitability. In the process of delivering on that mission we endeavor to earn our place as one of your most valued business partners. To meet that goal, we must deliver meaningful solutions at a reasonable price backed by unparalleled service.
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November 2011
PartnerConnect! 11 Proves Huge Success for Customers and DMSi Employees
With a return to the more intimate setting of Embassy Suites; DMSi customers gathered for PartnerConnect!11 on October 12-14 to make powerful connections with new ideas, each other, and employees of DMSi. This conference gave the 400 customers scattered across North America the rare opportunity to meet face to face with their peers in the industry and DMSi staff to improve their business processes. Based on DMSi Software’s survey, over 98% of the customers attending ranked PartnerConnect!11 conference satisfying.
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October 2011
With Agility, Lakeside Quality Building Materials Runs Business by the Numbers
With ambition, hard work, customer focus, and by utilizing DMSi’s comprehensive ERP system Agility, Lakeside Quality Building Materials has become a leading exterior building materials supplier in Upstate New York. “We run our business by the numbers and Agility helps us to do that,” Lakeside’s President, Brad Burns said. “The point is the metrics.” Using Agility, Lakeside sees great benefits by accessing historical data and using it to make impactful decisions about inventory, financials and giving order and product information to customers. Implemented in 2005, Lakeside sees Agility as the software that grows with them by enabling them to operate their branches seamlessly and centralizing all information.
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September 2011
Agility Goes Mobile
Agility, the building material industry’s most comprehensive ERP
system, is now accessible anywhere in the palm of your hand. Optimized
for Android devices, Agility Mobile Apps gives you access to key
features and keeps you connected to crucial item and customer data with
just a few taps of your tablet or phone. With a clean look and intuitive
features, it delivers the convenience of accessing customer
information, item availability and customer-specific pricing no matter
where you are. The Agility Mobile App is easy to deploy and available to
the Android Market.
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August 2011
New Credit Card Interface Provides Enhanced Processing
DMSi is pleased to announce a new partnership with Element Payment Services, which allows fully integrated credit card processing with advanced Agility features. Element Payment Services is an established industry leader that securely processes over $6 billion in payments annually. The company is also a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant processor, which means your customers’ credit card data remains protected and your business can easily comply with mandatory credit card industry security requirements. With the new Element interface, processing is enhanced because it automatically recognizes credit cards as commercial/business cards. It also includes detailed information from Agility in the card processing transaction.
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July 2011
Agility SaaS Allows SRS to Rapidly Integrate New Acquisitions
With aggressive growth in a down market, SRS Acquisition Corporation has established itself as one of the fastest growing roofing distribution companies in the U.S. They have over 650 employees, 260 Agility users and 52 locations to serve professional contractors. Using a cloud-based ERP SaaS platform, they can rapidly integrate new acquisitions, have access to Agility software from anywhere that has an Internet connection, and they never have to worry about upgrades, maintenance or hardware.
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June 2011
DMSi's Big WMS Milestone
In the first half of 2011 DMSi Software brought seven Agility customers live on Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). The customers, Boise Cascade Building Materials (Boise, ID), Building Products, Inc. (Watertown, SD), Eastern Aluminum Supply Co. (Goldsboro, NC), Kohl Building Products (Reading, PA), OneTree Distribution (Syracuse, NY), Texas Plywood & Lumber Co. (Grand Prairie, TX) and Wurth Wood Group (Charlotte, NC), are already seeing signs of how WMS is transforming their warehouse operations.
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May 2011
Professional Builders Supply considers Agility SaaS 'mission critical'
One of DMSi’s longest running Agility customers, Professional Builders Supply, utilizes DMSi’s best practices and Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery to provide excellent customer service to contractors in North Carolina. Headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, PBS supplies custom home builders with lumber, windows, exterior and interior doors, mouldings and other building products. PBS embraces technology and uses DMSi’s cloud based Agility SaaS platform to build on their reputation of dependability, honesty and integrity. “Agility is one of two mission critical systems for us, the other being e-mail, and it runs everything from sales order entry through delivery and back office invoicing and accounting — every facet of our business is run with Agility,” PBS’s Vice President of Finance & Administration, Steve Lochbaum explained. “What is great about SaaS is it's reliable, and anywhere I can get an internet connection, I can run Agility.”
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April 2011
DMSi's Move to NaviCloud to Give Customers More Flexibility and Security
DMSi announces it is in the process of moving hosted SaaS customers to the NaviCloud platform. This move replaces DMSi’s private cloud platform, consisting of owned physical servers, with a virtualized cloud environment. NaviCloud will deliver more flexibility, faster recovery time in cases of hardware failure, and unparalleled disaster recovery providing customers with no-hassle computing and peace of mind.
“DMSi is proactive about keeping up with the latest technology,” DMSi’s CEO Jim Hassenstab said. “Our goal is to deliver the best hosting solution possible to our customers and with the move to NaviCloud, we continue down that path.”
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March 2011
Agility’s Laminate Features are Essential for Web-Don Inc.
With nearly four decades in the countertop and laminate
distribution business, Web-Don, knows what software features work best
for their business, which is why they use Agility. Created with
laminate-specific features, DMSi’s Agility Software helps Web-Don, Inc.
to easily track sheet good products, automate rebates and cut
processing, and manage company assets more effectively. Based out of
Charlotte, NC, Web-Don, Inc. had been using DMSi’s BLOCS software for
over 10 years before migrating to Agility in 2008.
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February 2011
Remanufacturing Features Helps California Cascade Move Forward
There is a reason Agility’s remanufacturing
features appeal so well to lumber companies. The software simplifies the
remanufacturing process and delivers powerful results. California Cascade
Industries found this out over five years ago when they selected Agility and
now; their business runs better because of it. The company, located in
Sacramento, CA, is a manufacturer and distributor of redwood, cedar and treated
lumber products to large home centers and independent retailers throughout the
southwestern U.S. “We looked at three or four lumber-specific software
programs,” California Cascade’s operations manager Tim Semons said. “For us, we
do a lot of remanufacturing work and Agility had the best remanufacturing
functionality out of the software companies.”
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January 2011
Window Interfaces Make Bottom Line Difference for Eastern Aluminum
As an independent distributor of building materials, Eastern Aluminum, of Goldsboro, North Carolina, is always looking to get the best deals, products and service for their customers.
As Eastern's business began to change in the late 1990's, it became apparent that they needed an ERP system that could support their diversification of product lines. "The software we were using was still valid, but we needed different things," Jay Bundy, Eastern Aluminum's general manager and vice president explained. "The first is that it would not track the costs of non-stocks and our method of dealing with that was getting more complex because they were a rapidly growing product line for us. The second was, we had a door and window department and we needed to have bill of materials so we could configure built-up units and track material costs. The third was better management of inventory."
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December 2010
Holt & Bugbee Experiences Inventory Accuracy and Faster Turns with Agility
Having accurate information when you need it is the only way to run a
fast-paced business. Hardwood manufacturer Holt & Bugbee out of
Tewksbury, Massachusetts, understood this concept and chose to implement
DMSi's Agility Software in 2008. Agility's inventory functionality and
accuracy made a big difference to the company, but it was what they
could do with that information that really made an impact. By using
Agility's end tally tracking solutions, Holt & Bugbee found an easy
and quick way to track lumber. The hand-held technology seamlessly
brings critical lumber inventory information into Agility for tighter
inventory control; from receiving to remanufacturing, through the
final output.
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November 2010
Agility Empowers Pyramid Interior Distributors
Since starting with Pyramid Interior Distributors in spring of 2008, corporate controller Garry Condrey knew that his company needed a better inventory management system. At the time, their current system, Munix, was not meeting their needs and Condrey didn't feel secure about the system.
"Munix was very antiquated, "Condrey said. "It was unix based and not point and click. It was character driven and you had to know the code to get anything done."
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October 2010
Agility Gives Harper Chambers Confidence
A little over five years ago, Steve Chambers, president of Harper Chambers
Lumber Company in Tuscaloosa, AL, set out on a mission to find someone who
wasn’t happy with their DMSi Agility Software. At the time, he was unhappy with
the Activant CSD system he was using and was skeptical of other packages. “I was
doing a lot of due diligence when looking into DMSi,” Chambers explained. “It
became my mission to find someone who didn’t like DMSi and I still can’t find
them.”
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September 2010
MyUI Designer Improves Order Entry
For over 30 years, DMSi Software has delivered easy-to-use, sophisticated technology for the building materials industry. The new myUI Designer, released as part of the new sales order entry window currently in the Agility Beta Program v420, brings this technology to the next level.
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August 2010
Warehouse Management Systems Increase Operation Performance
When business is booming, it can be easier to overlook the inefficiencies and inaccuracies that infiltrate operations. But those issues become blaringly obvious when the business climate takes a negative turn like it has in recent years. Many companies learned this first-hand when they reduced staff to become leaner and flawed processes continued to negatively impact their bottom line. So, how can a company get to the core of operation issues, whether or not these problems are visible? One of the best, proven ways to help your business run at its highest potential regardless of the state of the economy is investing in a warehouse management system (WMS).
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July 2010
Hutchison Lumber Thrives with Agility
When a homeowner or contractor purchases building materials from Hutchison Lumber, they feel the difference that great customer service can make. DMSi's Agility Software enables them to receive their products faster and get more accurate information, which in turn allows Hutchison Lumber to thrive. For over 25 years, the company has ran on solid business ethics and customer service; and, now, they are doing it even better with Agility.
June 2010
DMSi Customers Eliminate Document Communication Issues with EDI
With the right technology tools, doing business with a big box and high volume retailers can greatly increase profitability for manufacturers and distributors. But without the right communication tools, it can bring frustration and marginal profitability. DMSi’s Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solutions electronically eliminate the costly time and errors associated with manually exchanging transactional information with trading partners. It allows businesses to increase efficiency and profitability with every transactional document exchange.
May 2010
Alley Roofing Supply Reaps the Benefits of Agility
Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Alley Roofing Supply has three branches selling roofing materials and accessories. The company selected DMSi's Agility software for its inventory control, experienced customer service, and software as a service (SaaS) option. Their previous system provided only basic accounting functionality that prohibited them from efficiently serving their customers.
April 2010
Cherokee Wood Products Reaching Business Goals with Agility
A distributor of hardwood lumber, hardwood flooring, moulding, and plywood, Cherokee Wood Products recently implemented Agility software. Located in Upland, California the company selected Agility SaaS to manage their daily processes and inventory. “Every day we learn something new that Agility can do to improve our business,” says Cherokee Wood Products President, Pete Lang.
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March 2010
Progress Software Awards DMSi for SaaS Excellence
Progress Software Corporation recently awarded DMSi Software with the SaaS Excellence Award honor for their participation in SaaS (Software as a Service) enablement programs resulting in highly innovative offerings that achieve impressive commercial success within their markets. You may read the full Progress article here. A Progress partner since 1994, DMSi has achieved marked success with Agility, their market leading software for building material distributors and dealers; and their early adoption of the SaaS server-free option.
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February 2010
DMSi Software Announces New Agility Customers
In 2009, DMSi Software increased its momentum with 26 companies selecting Agility. “Agility is the culmination of vast input from the best minds in the building products industry,” says Cal German, DMSi Software President. “It’s exciting new technology that clearly fits our customers and improves their daily lives and profitability.”
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January 2010
DMSi Launches New Ad Campaign
DMSi Software, in conjunction with Ayres advertising agency, has launched a new ad campaign to inform the building material industry about the multiple benefits experienced as a customer. Print and online advertising, direct mail, emails, and the www.dmsi.com website include ad campaign graphics and sound bites on how DMSi helps customers achieve superior efficiency and profitability.
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