Cat® dealer parts departments often spend many hours each week on redundant, manual tasks. Parts counter personnel frequently re-key line items from customer spreadsheets, re-enter entire orders when converting quotes to sales, and manually look through legacy systems to locate delivery notes. These less-than-optimal workflows lead to picking errors, order fulfillment delays, and unnecessary friction for both team members and customers. Portal Suite from FDC Solutions directly addresses these operational bottlenecks by layering powerful bulk actions, smart search capabilities, and automated file integration on top of familiar legacy workflows.
Dynamic Document Type Switching and Reusable Parts Lists
Convenient Switching Between Sales and Quote Document Types. Users can dynamically toggle between counter sales and counter quotes at checkout without canceling or re-keying an order, resolving a major bottleneck found in legacy workflows.
Saved and Shared Parts Lists. Team members can save custom parts lists for fast access on future orders and share them publicly across the company to eliminate repetitive data entry.
Convenient Data Entry and Smart Line Item Consolidation
Easy Copy and Paste. The Bulk Order Pad feature allows users to copy and paste parts lists directly from external sources.
File Uploads. The order entry functions in Portal Suite allow users to import parts lists directly from spreadsheet files.
Automatic Line Merging. Duplicate part numbers added to an order are automatically merged into a single line item, keeping warehouse personnel from visiting the same storage bin location more than once.
Intelligent Search and Seamless SIS Integration
SIS Connectivity. Portal Suite automatically passes a machine's serial number directly to SIS (Service Information System), letting users select compatible parts and return them to the order entry screen.
Full-Text Type-Ahead Search. Intelligent search scans the full text of delivery locations without requiring external reference lists or special search symbols.
Automated Communications and Custom Notifications
Custom Notification Lists. Dealer personnel can create and maintain email and phone number notification lists to push real-time order summaries to key contacts.
In-Portal Document Transmission. Team members can email completed sales and quote documents directly to customers from the order entry interface.
Expand Your Unified Ecosystem
Beyond modernizing core ERP operations, Portal Suite serves as a central hub that seamlessly connects with additional software from FDC Solutions. When purchased separately, powerful applications such as K*Track for package tracking and notification, WMSv2 for advanced warehouse management, the file upload utility for Promo Code 2.0, and Allied Parts Price Upload 2.0 are linked directly from your Portal Suite interface. This eliminates app-switching, unifies your parts counter and warehouse logistics on a single platform, and delivers an improved end-to-end operational experience.
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