| Sector: | Interior Design |
|---|---|
| Nunber of Users: | 25 |
Celebrated international Interior Designers Taylor Howes Designs is headed up by Gail Taylor and Karen Howes providing a comprehensive design service for private clients, property developers, and hoteliers.
Formed in 1991, Taylor Howes is a successful and fast-growing interior design business, which traditionally relied upon several individual spreadsheets to manage each project.
But a single project may involve thousands of items from hundreds of suppliers working in numerous currencies. Factor in the need to track the progress of a project as well as orders, deliveries and alterations, and these spreadsheets can quickly become overly complex and unable to hold the data generated. Duplication of processing data and human error had also become a potentially costly issue.
But at the start of 2007 a far-reaching review of working practices at the firm identified a need for a fundamental change in the way project data was collated, managed and shared.
In just over two years THD have progressed from a basic contact management system to a full-blown project management solution that manages virtually every aspect of the design project. Specific areas of the solution include:
- Clients
- Suppliers
- Projects
- Images
- Purchase Orders
- Sales Orders
- Diary
- Staff
- Timesheets
- Reports
- Deliveries
- Work Schedules
- Phases
- Tasks
- Emails
- Budgets
- Disbursements
"FileMaker has enabled us to be far more efficient and accurate with all elements of a project than we were before. It has also allowed us to share of knowledge in a way we didn't think possible. In short, the FileMaker / MaJic solution has massively improved the running of the projects and tightened up every aspect of the business."
Sue McGonigal
Associate Director
Taylor Howes Designs