Cases Delta Heavy Machinery

Delta Heavy Machinery: nearly two decades of ERP and website

Wercstat has been building Delta Heavy Machinery's ERP since 2007. It started as a Java desktop application for purchasing, sales, inventory, transport and the workshop; it has since been extended with marketing, a financial integration and a fully integrated website. The system is now being rebuilt step by step into a web application on the Wercstat framework.

Delta Heavy Machinery: nearly two decades of ERP and website
Sector
Heavy machinery trade
Period
Since 2007
Stack
Java, Wercstat framework, Web application, Website integration

The challenge

In 2007, Delta Heavy Machinery asked us to build a single system that brings the entire heavy machinery trade together: purchasing, sales, inventory, transport and the workshop. The existing solutions on the market fit poorly with the specific processes around large, unique machines, each with its own origin, inspection history and overhaul track.

What we built

We started with a Java desktop application supporting the five core processes:

  • Purchasing: register offerings, assess them and convert them into purchases.

  • Sales: quotations, orders and invoicing from the same inventory.

  • Inventory: a complete dossier per machine, from arrival to delivery.

  • Transport: worldwide insight into all machine locations and movements.

  • Workshop: inspections, parts, overhauls and maintenance hours recorded per machine.

In the years that followed, the system was extended step by step:

  • Marketing modules to promote offerings in a targeted way.

  • An integration with the financial system for bookings and invoicing.

  • Integration with the company’s own website (deltaheavymachinery.com), so that stock and machine data come from a single source.

  • Integration with external websites for machine buying and selling.

The website

Delta Heavy Machinery’s website was also built by Wercstat, with three principles: SEO-friendly, fast, and fully integrated. Visitors see live what is in stock, including the data recorded in the workshop during inspection. No separate product database, no double entry; the website is a window onto the same ERP used internally.

Partnership

For Wercstat, Delta is an illustration of what we mean by partnership: nearly two decades of building, extending and modernising software together, without ever embarking on a large replacement project. The system grew along, and keeps growing along.

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