Grafton is able to offer its clients an easy and cost-efficient way to manage and order van stock and materials for use on housing repair contracts. Customers include housing associations, local councils with housing stock and commercial contractors.
The Solution
As operatives use stock from their vans, they send an update on the PDA, which has all the stock items preloaded, and the system automatically sends a replenishment order to Grafton.
Benefits to Customers
This service removes the need for customers to manage their own building materials supplies, saving the cost of running their own warehouse. It minimises off-job time for operatives, gives fast replenishment of van stock, and offers just in time ordering to improve cash flow. Less manual intervention in turn reduces the incidence of human error.
iBASIS
For boiler spares parts identification, Grafton recommends iBASIS. This is a comprehensive database of boiler and spares information for gas and oil appliances installed throughout the UK, now available online. Whether you are a contractor, engineer, stockist, local authority or social landlord with your own maintenance team, the iBASIS site contains all the information needed to rapidly and accurately identify requirements for heating boiler spare parts.
Prices updated daily – iBASIS is able to ensure that the published price on the website is as up-to-date and as accurate as the information provided to the trade by the manufacturers, ensuring that the trade price you see is correct. iBASIS has a team of people ensuring the most up-to-date appliance information is uploaded on to the website as soon as possible after the information is released by the manufacturer.
Appliance exploded views - iBASIS provides high quality exploded view diagrams from which to easily identify the part you need. Using a database of hundreds of thousands of accurately priced parts, you will know the manufacturer’s part number, the GC number, if available, the description, the trade price, and often, a photo of the actual part.
Photographs of parts - iBASIS has high quality photographs of thousands of the parts in everyday use, helping to ensure you locate the right part and helping to prevent the costly mistake of ordering the wrong ones.
Fault-finding charts, wiring diagrams and installation instructions - If your engineers are on site and the manuals are not available you can view these on line on the iBASIS website for many manufacturers’ boilers.
Part key word search - iBASIS has created a unique key word search to enable you to find the parts you need..