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Graybar VIP Design Online Is A Success
The First Web-based Multi-Vendor Structured Cabling Design and Budgeting Tool has met with a big approval for consultants, contractors and designers that signed up for this program.
The Tool was anticipated to provide a 25 percent or greater increase in productivity with fewer errors. Actually, we are getting feedback that the program has delivered MORE than was expected. The savings of manpower and increased accuracy in the project designs have been stunning. We'll bring you more information on this in the next issue.
In September 2005, Graybar, a leading North American distributor of electrical and telecommunications service solutions and products and related supply chain management and logistics services, announced a 60-day free trial of the first multi-vendor Web-based design and budgeting tool for complex structured cabling projects - Graybar VIP Design Online.
The free trial was valued at more than $150 dollars. A one-year subscription to Design Online is $1,000, which is rebated with the specification or purchase of two Graybar Verified Independently for Performance (VIP) structured cabling projects during the 12-month subscription. For more information, visit http://www.graybar.com/DesignOnline/default.htm.
"We wanted to give structured cabling designers the opportunity to test-drive Design Online and experience its power firsthand," said Bob Weiland, national market manager - commercial market, Graybar. "Once they start using this tool, we believe they'll see the advantages of working this way instead of using their traditional design and budgeting methodology, which probably includes copying and pasting data into spreadsheets. Design Online eliminates this tedious process, saving valuable time while significantly reducing the potential for mistakes."
Design Online's simple point-and-click interface provides users with the ability to save an estimated 25 percent, if not more, on the time it takes to design, configure and budget structured cabling projects while reducing errors. For the first time within a Web-based design and budgeting tool, users have access to a centralized repository of more than 8,000 data communications products and their prices. Included in the database are 15 interoperable cabling and connectivity product lines proven to exceed industry standards by the Graybar VIP testing program. Users have the ability to manage multiple projects through the interface.
Users estimate saving 25 percent or more on design time by:
1) Reducing the time-to-assemble material lists for a complex project by using ready-made templates and by eliminating the tedious clerical work of copying and pasting data into spreadsheets;
2) Decreasing configuration errors with built-in configuration rules;
3) Eliminating tedious phone, e-mail and fax communication by automatically generating budgets; and
4) Generating a robust, fully configured product graphic "on the fly" to give customers early visibility of a design.
Hats off to Graybar for bringing in another winner for their customers. http://www.graybar.com/vip/default.html
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