Has there ever been a time when you needed to issue a quote but weren’t quite ready to disclose the Acuity Brands Divisions in the quote print document for fear of making it easier for competitors to cross the bill of material? We now have a new print option designed specifically for situations like this!…
Over the past month, many agents reported that they were affected by a variety of viruses or malware that severely impacted their machines. While working through these issues, it was discovered that several of the affected machines did not have anti-virus software installed or it was an outdated version.
We’ve deployed another report: the Customer Briefing Book (CBB). This report is located in the Reports Executive Folder and available to anyone who has access to that folder. The CBB starts with a summary page that highlights the top and bottom overall customers, top stock customers, and the largest contributors to agency commissions. The detail…
As you might have noticed, the agile menu and home page have been given a facelift. There are a number of new features available that we can’t wait to share with you. Some of these include:
We have been busy at work modifying the Acuity Distributor Center to meet the needs of our Holophane users. On 3/31/14, users logging into MyHolophane.com will be rerouted to the Acuity Distributor Center!
Starting March 12th, Acuity Distributor Center account management will be handled by your agency. Hopefully you had a chance to sit in on one of the training sessions. If not, please take a few minutes to review the video which can be found in this blog and on the agile Help tab under Agency Administration.
During the week of March 10, 2014, we will be putting Acuity Distributor Center account management into the hands of the agency. With this change comes the following enhancements:
Microsoft will end all support for Windows XP on April 8, 2014 and it is recommended these machines are upgraded to Windows 7 or Windows 8. While they have stated that Office 365 will not block connectivity from fully patched Windows XP computers after April 8, connectivity to the server will be at risk and limit…
A few weeks ago we deployed an updated Agency Administration application with improved functionality to assign and manage agile access within your agency. We are offering two 30 minute online training sessions to review the application enhancements: Tuesday November 19, 2013 at 4 p.m. Thursday November 21, 2013 at 9 a.m. If you are interested…
Attention OM users! Ever forget to add the National Account (Corporate Account) to your orders? Well, we are going to take care of that for you! To ensure that your national account order gets the proper attention and service, we have enhanced OM to determine if a National Account needs to be applied. When you create an order…
We are pleased to announce an enhanced Agency Administration application that provides better user management and improved visibility. New functionality includes the ability to:
Stay tuned for training webcasts to be announced this week and next week.
Two new fields will now require your input on the RFD Architectural Outdoor and Functional Outdoor Pole forms. You will now be required to fill in the Existing Anchor Bolts field and the Top Mounting Requirement field. This is required information by our Pole vendors and will save RFD processing time by not having to go back to the…
A few more reporting updates to help you manage your business!!
We have created a new Orders by Employee Credit report to take advantage of the improved Employee Credit functionality as well as improved the Orders Entered and Sales Goals – Non ABL report to provide more detail
The new agile integrated Envision configurator eases doing business with ASL by providing: Electronic assistance for ASL catalog numbers Instant wind-load validation Customized 2D & 3D product model files Customized pictures for site specific project proposals Customized specification sheets with orientation drawings We conducted a series of webinars this summer, but if you missed the chance to join…
During the week of March 10, 2014, we will be putting Acuity Distributor Center account management into the hands of the agency. With this change comes the following enhancements:
We are pleased to announce the introduction of a new report as well as additional functionality to a few existing reports that will provide enhanced detail with less reports to run! By updating the reports, we are able to remove some of reports from the list, making your selection easier to navigate. New Report Yearly Order…
You may have noticed by now that agile Product Search looks a little different. In addition to updating the look of Product Search we introduced some significant performance improvements as well as some new functionality like: Visibility of product details, pricing, availability, lead times, and specification sheets on a single product details page Master Line…
Are you and your distributors ready? On 9/24/13, the new Acuity Distributor Center (ADC) will replace the Lithonia Distributor Center (LDC). Hopefully you had a chance to participate in one of the agency training webinars and review the September 5th blog post containing the details of the coming changes. If you have not, please take a moment…
The existing Employee Credit process has been improved for easier rep association and maintenance to projects and orders. You now also have access to improved employee credit reporting! Some of the changes include: The ability to manage employee percentages on one screen in Contact Management The ability to see and maintenance Employee Credit assignments on…
WHAT’S NEW A New Website The ADC website will have a new URL: www.acuitydistributorcenter.com.LDC.flywheelsites.com will continue to work but will re-route the users to the new site. No need to worry about popup blockers since the users have already enabled the new website with the last release. Minimum Browser Requirement It is important to note…
Previously, if you had Hidden (HDN) lines on a quote, when you converted to a hold order those lines were automatically changed to Regular (REG) product lines. For those HDN lines that contained overage, if your agency did not edit or remove the lines or update the line categories to Overage (OVG) prior to final…
It has been a year since the new process for registering projects for specification credit has been in place and it’s time to put STAR to bed. We will be decommissioning STAR on May 31, 2013. As of May 31st, you will no longer see STAR as an available application in the agile suite or…
We have added some great integration features to agile Quotes including the ability to:
Based on your feedback we have deployed some new reports to help you manage your business!
In a continued effort to expand the non-ABL capability so that agile becomes your enterprise system, we have added the ability for you to enter annual/monthly sales goals for your non-ABL manufacturers and track progress via a report …
A new version of agile Quotes is now available with some new features!
Please welcome our newest addition to agile…..Request for Warranty Deviation (RFWD)! Starting today all requests for warranty deviations can be entered and managed through the new RFWD application. This new application will allow you to request changes to a product’s warranty straight from the quote line and send it to the Product Value Stream for…
Do you have groups of distributors or other customers that you always quote? Rather then add each company onto the project, you now have the ability to set up contact groups and associate the entire group to a project. Learn how to use this new functionality …
We continue to make enhancements to Acuity Distributor Center based on customer feedback. Here are some recent changes you may want to pass along to your customers.
We recently provided you with the following additional Project Container enhancements and minor bug fixes to the Follow-up application …
We have more enhancements to agile quotes to tell you about!
We hope your customers are becoming more comfortable with the functionality of the new Acuity Distributor Center Order Status and E-Solutions. We have listened to our distributor’s feedback and continue to adjust the system to provide an optimum experience.
Here are some of the changes that have already been made and/or will be available next week.
Our March enhancements to agile Quotes are once again based on feedback we have received from our users. Keep the ideas coming. Here is what’s new:
Pacific Coast Distribution Center (PDC), which is located in Ontario, California, has over $17 Million of inventory, including product such as Acculamp. agile Product Search now provides visibility of this inventory, and will help you better serve your customers. PDC items display with a Location # of 86. PDC inventory sources from key Asian partners…
We have been busy enhancing OM to be more streamlined and flexible. Here are the enhancements ready for your use!
We’re excited to announce that over the next few months, we will begin phasing in Acuity Distributor Center (ADC) to replace our current Lithonia Distributor Center (LDC) portal. We’re updating key functionality over the course of the next 6 months to make this portal even more user-friendly and faster than ever before. We’re beginning the…
Today we have deployed three new reports:
We continue to address your enhancement requests….keep them coming! A new Quote release is now available and contains the following enhancements:
A new version of agile Documents is now available in Project Container and throughout agile where documents can be uploaded.
A new version of agile Rep is available for download and includes a couple of maintenance items to provide a better experience. Here are the details:
New Reports are available!!
We have developed some new reports to help with agency management:
…and made some improvement to existing reports! …
A new version of agile Quotes is available this morning. It includes two nice enhancements:
We continue to focus on enhancements that provide efficiency within agile Quotes!
A new version of agile Rep is available for download and contains some great enhancements many of you have asked for!
A new version of agile quotes is now available! Here are some of the highlights…
We have developed a new add-in for Outlook that will allow you to upload emails directly to and from agile!
The enhancements just keep on coming! Today’s enhancement….Project Container. Check it out.
Don’t miss this blog otherwise you may be in for a surprise when you go to the Contacts Tab of a Project or Order! We are excited to provide a new and much improved way to add companies and contacts to your projects, mark the specifier and customer who won the job and manage relationships…
We are pleased to provide some new features to the Submittals functionality of agile including the ability to:
As October comes to a close we have another round of agile Quotes treats for you including…
Want to be able to customize the order status and view it from the dashboard? Or maybe you want to create an automatic follow-up on your Non-ABL orders? Or perhaps you want to attach hold order documents when printing an order confirmation? Now you can! These are just a few of the exciting additions we’ve made to the agile Order Management application in this latest release …
A recent deployment of agile Order Management now includes improvements to the entry of commission splits for Non-ABL orders. You now have the ability to
Based on agency feedback, we recently updated several reports to allow for filter of National Accounts business and Acuity value stream commissions, and created a new report to assist with commission reconciliation! …
We have made another round of agile Quote enhancements based on your feedback. You can now take advantage of the following new features:
We’ve listened to your feedback on how you would like for the Alt Ship To, Ship To, and Sold To addresses to work for your Non-ABL orders. With the latest release, we’ve addressed your wishes! We’ve also tackled an improvement to the multiple line edit feature that we think you’ll appreciate. Here is a breakdown of the latest enhancements:
We have made some enhancements to Bid Board and Project Container that will improve your agile experience! These enhancements include:
The Commission Incentive Program has been expanded to include Healthcare Lighting®. This enhancement provides you more profit opportunities for your selling efforts, and makes the CIP process much easier for your agency.
CIP continues to pay an attractive 90/10 split. This change is now operational in agile.
We continue to dedicate time and effort into improving agile Quotes. You will be pleased to know we have made enhancements in the following areas:
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We recently implemented new processes within agile related to spec registration….
A new version of Order Management has been deployed to production.
The major changes in this version include:
You asked for it, and we delivered! Check out the new enhancements to Bid Board that you requested!
Check out the new enhancements to Bid Board! Print History: A new icon will display on calendar views when a quote has print history Layout Manager: Implemented Layout Manger for Bid Board Print History In the calendar views, an icon will display next to the Job Name when a quote has been printed or emailed….
We have improved the agile Payment application so you are now able to create a new non-ABL payment directly from an open payment record. After you created a non-ABL payment or have reviewed an existing record, you can click the New button and it will launch a new payment record. This feature will keep you…
More enhancements have been added to further improve your Project Container and Spec Registration experience.
Have you ever wanted to group a set of Quote lines together as an assembly? And then decide how to expose the products and pricing that make up that assembly? Well this functionality is now available in agile Quotes. Check out this quick 5 minute training video below to learn how to use the new…
Based on the feedback we heard from you, we are introducing new features to Controls Designer! More updates will follow later this summer, but this week’s update of Controls Designer includes: Enhancements to help you review a riser diagram and ensure a network is not overloaded in terms of device number limits Option to omit…
We are pleased to provide a new release with some great enhancements requested by our power users. The enhancements fall into the following categories:
We have deployed two new order reports for you to evaluate business associated with your contractors and specifiers.
Orders by Contractor and Orders by Specifier reports are now available in the Executive folder.
Check out these new enhancements to Project Container and Spec Registration:
Based on your feedback, we have enhanced agile Bid Board with some new features! You can now set your default view and show additional project information on your calendar views …
Based on your feedback, we have enhanced agile Bid Board with some new features! You can now set your default view and show the count of projects for each day via the calendar view. SET DEFAULT VIEW To set your default view, click on Options then Calendar Options. Select the view you prefer then click…
In an effort to reduce the cycle time necessary to create submittals on LC&D jobs, Controls Designer now includes the ability to enter load schedule information on LC&D Relay Panels, Time Clocks, Digilinks, Switches, and Photocell Cards. As a result, Controls Designer now generates a more complete submittal package with programming information for LC&D jobs…
Have you been waiting for agile Contractor to become available on devices other than the iPhone and iPad? We are pleased to announce that we have expanded the offering of agile Contractor across platforms. We now have two offerings of agile Contractor! In addition to the iPad/iPhone version, we are excited to make available the…
We are introducing three new reports to help you manage the business! Project- Quote by Follow- Up Salesperson: This report will now show projects associated to the follow-up salesperson or persons associated in Project Container. It will also provide the project phase, priority, estimated project or quote amount and associated contacts. Commissions Past Due report: …
In addition to the Overage changes mentioned in yesterday’s blog, this week’s release of agile Quotes (1.14.6.0) includes:
With the latest release of agile Quote (1.14.6.0) several enhancements to have been made to applying Overage.
The new process for registering projects for specification credit is moving full steam ahead! Effective Monday May 21st, you will no longer have the ability to create new STAR requests. For those of you who missed the training sessions held on May 15th and 16th, there will be a make-up session on Wednesday May 23rd….
Are you using the STAR application today to register for specification credit? If so…you will want to read this blog! We have incorporated the functionality to register for specification credit into Project Container! This new functionality will replace the STAR application. Training on the new process will be held on May 15th & 16th ….
A recent release of agile Order Management has been put into production. We have made several enhancements to the Order Management application to improve the efficiency of processing orders. Below are the changes that are contained in this release:
Check the app store for an agile Rep update! Here’s what’s new:
Stay tuned for more enhancements to come …
In an effort to increase the value of submittals generated for customers, Envision’s Customized Submittal sheets now include the following features: More descriptive product information and dimensional data for each component of configured assemblies such as height, wind load EPA and Weight Dimensional lines on the 3D drawing that display the actual heights of the…
Attention all quoters….this is what you have been waiting for! A new version of agile Quotes (1.13.0.0) has been deployed to Production and includes features designed to accelerate the quote creation process along with speeding up the process of opening quotes! Accelerated Project Quote Creation: A new option “Project Quote (open Quote first)” has been…
A new version of agile Quotes (1.13.0.0) has been deployed to Production and includes the following features and updates for improving Quote Open and agile stability. Opening Quotes from within a Quote: In addition to opening a quote from the dashboard, you now have the ability to open quotes from within a quote. This method…
Calling all sales people! Another major blog you don’t want to miss! We are pleased to announce that you now have mobile access to your agile Project Containers via agile Rep! Be sure to download the new version of agile Rep today! agile Rep has been expanded to include visibility of Project Container. What does…
Want more flexibility in printing? You got it. In this release we have made major enhancements to the printing options within Order Management for both ABL and Non-ABL, as well as additional enhancements and bug fixes.
Check out the changes in this release …
Do you ever find yourself needing to cleanup a Quote prior to conversion by updating the Product pricing to match the Factor pricing that the Quote was bid with? With the latest version of agile Quotes you now have the ability to easily move the difference between Factor and Product dollars to either Overage (both ABL and Non-ABL) or to the base Product price! …
Today we are announcing the release of more robust functionality to handle employee sales credits. This functionality now in agile provides all agents the ability to enter and report on their employee’s involvement on individual projects and orders. agile will now have a dedicated tab on the Project and Order to enter and display all…
You have to see it to believe it! With the click of a button, you can now generate ONE comprehensive report, complete with month and year to date comparisons over the prior year for Orders, Project Quotes, Quick Quotes. The new executive Briefing Book, located in the Executive folder of Reports contains a concise view of…
In preparation for the elimination of STAR, we have incorporated the functionality for registering specifications into Project Container! The new process will introduce project sharing which will simplify the process for registering specifications and significantly improve tracking to ensure compensation. More details on the changes will be provided in the coming months. We anticipate introducing full functionality summer 2012.
A new version of Order Management has been deployed to production. The major changes in this version include:
A recent deployment of agile Quotes and Order Management improvements have been made to Lamp Line functionality. Ability to tie a Lamp Line to a Product Line: Once a Lamp Line is tied to a Product Line any changes to the Product Line quantity will automatically update the number of required lamps on the Lamp…
Interested in learning about the Non-ABL capabilities in agile? Then this video series is for you. In less than twenty minutes you can discover how agile can process your Non-ABL business from start to finish.
A new version of Order Management has been deployed to production. The major changes in this version include:
A new version of agile Quote (1.10.15.0) has been deployed to production. This version includes the following enhancements:
Based on feedback from the field, we have changed the current report structure to allow easier navigation through the reporting options …
A new version of agile Order Management has been deployed to production and includes some major enhancements including:
First we brought you time saving tips and tricks for Order Management, then Quote, and now we bring you the Project Container Quick Tips and Tricks Video Series! This series totals over 14 minutes of watchable content. The series is broken down into six videos as follows
Recently, you may have noticed that the Price History application was having issues returning data in a timely fashion. We analyzed the situation and made a few changes which resulted in a more stable application. First, we removed some unnecessary data in the Price History database. Quote lines that had been ordered were still showing…
Want to save time when you send a quote to multiple distributors and/or contractors? Would you prefer fewer clicks when you send a quote to multiple contacts? Multi-Send allows you to do just that. With Multi-Send, you can distribute a quote to multiple contacts using a single dialog. You can still modify the price and…
A new version of agile Quote (1.9.21.0) has been deployed to production. This release includes the following major items: