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23 Reasons to use Dancik International Software Solutions

1. It's All Connected - From showroom to office to warehouse to web.

Connect to your customers, your suppliers, and to a new level of efficiency and profitability with our industry-leading solutions. Dancik International offers integrated, end-to-end software solutions and professional services for your business - flooring covering, ceramic tile, natural stone and other home décor products. By combining leading edge showroom and CRM technology with point-of-sale and distribution management systems, we provide retailers, distributors and manufacturers with the tools to serve your customers better, extend your reach into the supply chain and revolutionize the way consumers make home improvement decisions.

2. Spend more time selling and less time training.

Minimize the time your customer service and sales representatives spend being trained and get them out where they make the most impact - on the sales floor. Dancik's software learns your complicated business rules once so you don't have to repeat them over and over to each new employee. Dancik systems focus on the details, making time for your staff to focus on selling and customer satisfaction.

3. Sell more high-margin items

Dancik systems will remind, prompt and display "up-sell items" such as decorative accents and accessories, to your customers and salespeople, helping to increase average order sizes and average gross margin per order.

4. Reduce inventory while increasing sales

A successful inventory management system must understand the unique aspects of the products and suppliers it is managing. Dancik's inventory programs calculate the optimum quantities to order from each supplier - based on each supplier's past performance and current requirements. We understand minimum sellable shade, dye lot and roll sizes. We recognize how to spot trends from working with the most successful companies in the industry. Our automated purchasing system orders what you need, when you need it. Inventory value is lowered, turns are increased and top sellers are kept available for sale.

5. Doing business your way

At Dancik, we understand that only software built upon industry knowledge will work for you. Dancik's software is designed to do business the way you do, with the terminology and accepted business practices needed for your products - flooring, ceramic tile, natural stone and other home décor products. Our software is not just easy to use - it speaks your language on every screen and on every report.

6. Don’t wait for your employees to ask for the information they need – Deliver it!

In the past, your managers, salespeople, and other employees needed to run their own reports, or they’d ask your IT department to get them the data they need. With Dancik's R.A.D.A.R. application, each employee gets their own personal “dashboard” with the information they need. Real-time data is displayed on web-pages, accessible anywhere and anytime, providing the ability to analyze customers, products, divisions, trends, and to drilldown and export data to spreadsheets.

7. Enterprise-wide functionality and industry-wide integration

At Dancik, we help manage every aspect of your business, from your internal operations to your external relationships. We've listened to companies like yours for more than 20 years. The insight we have gained forms the core of our constantly enhanced solutions. Dancik works with industry manufacturers, buying groups and trade organizations so that you can take advantage of the latest industry trends, initiatives and innovations. Companies using our Dancik Enterprise System (DES) consistently lead the industry in technology, sales volume, profitability, and growth.

8. Reduce costs by automatically tracking all accruals - rebates, spiffs, split commissions

Tracking and claiming rebates, spiffs and commissions involve excessive time and manpower. Dancik's software enables you to set up any number of accruals - based on product, customer, price, cost and so on. Just enter the orders and our software does the rest. Report to your suppliers, customers, buying groups and salespeople - instantly and accurately.

9. Minimize the creation of remnants, and turn remnants into cash

Dancik's ISO (Inventory Selection Optimizer) minimizes remnants by looking for the smallest rolls, shades and dye lots to fill each order, leaving larger lots for larger orders. And when you are left with remnants and odd lots, our automated "Specials List" can display and sell them on your web-site, on your order entry screens, and on reports and price lists.

10. Increase employee productivity by measuring it

1. Measure salespeople by sales, gross profit, number of orders and number of credit memos issues
2. Measure warehouse personnel by number of picks, weight picked, number of receipts and a log that tracks every task they performed, by date, time and location in the warehouse
3. Measure customer service representatives by number of orders and lines placed and number of "up-sell" items sold, such as accessories, cleaners and special services.

11. Decrease unexplained service shortfalls through accountability

When your people and processes are not tracked, your service level is unpredictable and unmanaged. Dancik systems provide the security and tracking mechanisms to control your business environment.

1. Every order change is logged - who, what, when, where and why.
2. Every step of the order fulfillment process is logged - who picked it, who staged it, who shipped it, who cancelled it, and who received or adjusted cash and other types of payment.
3. Every inventory adjustment is accounted for - who, what, when, where, why and how much did it cost.

12. Increase gross margins by first calculating what your margins really are

Dancik's sales analysis module has unprecedented and unrivaled features to capture accurate gross profit margins in a business overwrought with rebates, trip programs, spiffs, royalties and referral fees. Dancik's online sales analysis and extensive reporting system considers every element that affects margin so that you know the "bottom-line margin" of every customer, every order and every product.

13. Connect to your customers and suppliers, using the Flooring Industry B2B Standards

Dancik International remains an active participant in the implementation and ongoing support of the Flooring Industry B2B Standards (FCB2B). These standards are enabling thousands of flooring and tile companies to electronically send and receive product catalogs, price lists, orders, invoices and more. Dancik's Channel Management Solutions (CMS) enable you to trade all of these B2B transactions. Join the long list of manufacturers, distributors and retailers that have turned to us for state-of-the-art B2B solutions.

14. Expand your showroom without adding space

In the floor covering industry, you know how hard it is to sell your products if people can't imagine how they will look in their own home. Image Builder® from Dancik International is a visual merchandising software solution that generates actual photographic images of your products in a variety of rooms and settings. With just a few clicks, your customers can see what a room looks like with any combination of your products. Image Builder automatically suggests complementary products such as borders, medallions, accents, and trim - adding to each sale and to the bottom line. Give your customers the power to see what they want - and buy what they see.

15. Manage rolls, shades, dye lots, area rugs and complex tile and stone installations

All Dancik software modules understand even the most subtle nuances of flooring, tile and other home décor products:

1. Purchase tile in square meters, sell in square feet, pick in cartons and pieces (or any combination you prefer)
2. Purchase rolled goods in rolls or square yards, sell in square feet, cut in feet and inches (or any combination you prefer)
3. Sell ceramic patterns such as "octagon, dot, and border" in total square feet, with Dancik’s system calculating how many of each tile is needed with consideration for grout joints
4. Calculate the installation materials needed on a job based on spread rates and coverage formulas
5. Manage natural stone slabs with individual slab dimensions, and features for stone fabrication

16. You're open for business, even when your doors are closed

Provide your customers with 24-hour web access and increase your business opportunities. Dancik's Décor 24® software enables your customers to place orders and check stock availability day or night, holidays and weekends, from your web-site. This easy-to-use system automates routine customer inquiries and lets your staff concentrate on customer service.

17. Reduce costly shipping errors

Dancik’s pick, pack, and ship programs use bar codes and scanning to prevent picking the wrong product, color, shade or roll. Our Dock Door Management programs verify that any item leaving your warehouse is loaded on the right truck and given to the right customer.

18. Use your warehouse space more effectively

Dancik's Integrated Warehouse Management System (IWMS) organizes your space into logical areas and sub-areas, and suggests the best locations for each receipt. Our "flexible allocation" module automatically allocates the most accessible bin locations, avoiding overstock areas and sealed pallets until open and accessible pallets are depleted.

19. Close more sales via better management of your showrooms and customer selections

The typical showroom closes only a small percentage of its sales opportunities. Dancik's Selection Sheet Manager® enables you to track every customer selection, follow up when required and increase your closing rate:

1. Create a central database of all customer selections so you can find any selection, based on customer's name, address, builder, contractor or designer
2. Find selections from any of your showrooms - regardless of where the selection was originally placed
3. Automate a list of follow-up reminders for each salesperson
4. Is completely integrated with other Dancik modules, allowing products to be visualized and selections to turn into orders with a few clicks

20. Training and consultation from industry experts

Dancik has worked with companies like yours for over 20 years. Our staff is focused exclusively on how to manage the flooring, ceramic tile, natural stone and other home décor products that you carry. Our team of professionals delivers a full range of support services from implementation and training to consulting, auditing, and advice on industry best practices.

21. Provide faster service to your customers

Dancik's "Product Knowledge" and "Related Products" features enable your customer service representatives to know everything about your products including the accessories, decorative accents, and installation materials that go with any product. Dancik's product search enables you to find products instantly based on any part of the product name, description, attributes or SKU number.

22. Compete effectively with your largest competitors

Dancik systems provide any size business with access to the necessary tools to compete on any level with any size business. We can fortify your web-site with state-of-the-art search and shopping cart capabilities. Our systems enable you to manage national account relationships, service specialized markets (such as builders) and generate the necessary reports, documents and B2B transactions demanded by your most rule-laden suppliers.

23. Expand and improve your systems without interruption to your day-to-day business

Dancik provides a series of unprecedented services that keep your systems constantly improving, without the business disruptions normally associated with "new releases" and "new versions". Dancik assumes the entire responsibility to update your system to any new Dancik release - including the seamless integration of any and all customization that you have authorized us to do. And, the new features resulting from Dancik's own research and development efforts can be distributed to you automatically, via the Internet, with no effort on your part and no business interruption. We keep your systems up to date so you can concentrate on growing your business.