Mercedes-Benz

Category

Application Development

Company

Company Profile

Mercedes-Benz USA is headquartered near New York City in Montvale, NJ and is responsible for the U.S. sales, service and marketing of Mercedes-Benz cars and light trucks as well as the Maybach super-luxury sedan. MBUSA employs about 1,500 people in 20 different locations around the nation. In 2003, the company sold 218,717 vehicles through a nationwide network of over 300 retailers in the U.S., setting the highest-ever sales volume in its history.

Project Description

Acentric designed and built a progressive extranet website for Mercedes-Benz to rent auto show exhibit furniture to its 310 dealers. This secure website enables users to design various exhibits floor plans with an easy to use drag and drop tool, selecting from an inventory of 3D pictures. Dealers use a 360-degree viewing tool to evaluate exhibit furniture items and place them within custom floor plans. Or they can select from several predefined plans. Through this process, dealers now have access to their order history and previously designed floor plans for future auto shows.

The items selected are ordered from Mercedes-Benz exhibit furniture fabrication shop. Along with the dealers having an efficient and easy to use tool to order auto show components, Mercedes-Benz management benefits from MIS reporting that enables a thorough understanding of what is being ordered by whom. This system also functions as a work order tool, communicating to the exhibit fabrication shop what furniture items need to be built and shipped.