The costing system supports the sales-promoting processes that are relevant to data exchange and accumulate from costing transactions. This includes all procedures from creating sales and distribution scenarios and assigning customer-specific information to pricing diagnostics equipment. It is used globally by a leading pharmaceutical company.
Supplement
The application is implemented as a three layered architecture and a Smart Client. The client layer is implemented by means of a Windows Forms presentation that communicates via remoting with the business logic installed on an Internet information server. The .Net Framework 1.1 is used here. Data is stored on an MS SQL Server database. The application is prepared for multilingual use. The application is created as a consistently object- and component-oriented application for simple expansion and maintenance.
Subject description
Costing includes configuring the quotation, pricing and workflow control. The configuration makes it possible to create multiple locations with multiple instruments each and to assign the necessary reagents and consumption materials for each instrument. Large parts of the configuration (materials list) are automatically generated on the basis of user input. Various price variants can be created and compared in pricing. The price variants distribute costs differently to various combinations of materials. In pricing, profitability and other key performance indicators in the overall quotation are checked. The application contains a workflow control for creating a quotation in work groups and to enable a hierarchical authorization concept.