TDCI and FeneTech Form Alliance

TDCI Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, and FeneTech Inc. of Aurora, Ohio, have announced that they have formed a strategic alliance to integrate their respective solutions, in an effort to provide manufacturers with a management system that includes support for sales activities such as product configuration and quoting along with functions for manufacturing, delivery and service.

TDCI’s BuyDesign® software is a comprehensive guided selling and configuration solution developed to streamline the sales process for customized products.

FeneTech’s FeneVision® software is a business management system designed specifically for door and window manufacturers. The system integrates production scheduling and control functions directly with shop floor equipment to automate the manufacturing process.

“No one understands window and door manufacturing better than FeneTech, and we’re excited about working with them to create the most advanced quote-to-delivery solution available in the fenestration industry today,” says TDCI president Dan DeMuth.

FeneTech president Ron Crowl, adds, “TDCI’s BuyDesign provides window & door manufacturers with intuitive web-based configuration and quoting tools that nicely complement our order entry, manufacturing and customer service software. Together, our solutions can have a huge positive impact on a window and door company’s business performance.”

As part of the alliance, TDCI and FeneTech have integrated BuyDesign Configurator, the product configurator component of BuyDesign, into the FeneVision Order Entry application. This enables all of BuyDesign’s advanced product configuration, visualization and data generation capabilities within FeneVision. It also provides a single configuration rules management environment for the combined solution. Standard links for sharing of customer, product and order information between FeneVision and BuyDesign are also being developed using the BuyDesign Integrator toolset. Using these links, the BuyDesign application for dealer or direct sales force quoting and ordering (BuyDesign Channel Sales) can be deployed as a web-based online solution, or as a distributed desktop/laptop PC solution with automated synchronization via the Internet. Orders are passed directly into FeneVision to drive the manufacturing and shipping process. BuyDesign applications for website development (BuyDesign Build-Your-Own and BuyDesign Virtual Catalog) and for download of configurable product catalogs for use within AutoCAD by architects and designers (BuyDesign Spec-In) also are available as part of the overall solution. 

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