Replacing Excel with custom software: when is it time?
When do you replace Excel with a custom application? The warning signs, the real cost of spreadsheet errors and a step-by-step plan for SMEs.
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Willebroek sits between our two offices. We build web apps, internal systems and dashboards for the logistics companies along the canal and for the SMEs around them.
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Why Willebroek
Its position on the A12 and the Brussels-Scheldt sea canal makes Willebroek one of the logistics hotspots of the country. The Willebroek-Noord zone is covered by a brownfield covenant and is under full development, and on the canal sits a container terminal that works as a link to the port of Antwerpen. The municipality deliberately targets e-commerce logistics and measures itself against the south of the Netherlands and the north-west of Germany.
Logistics is a sector where software sits straight in the margin. Half an hour of waiting time per run, a wrongly loaded pallet or an invoice left lying for three weeks, it all adds up. And most companies here run on a mix of a transport package, email and Excel, with a lot of manual work in between.
Source: Sterck Magazine, Boom en Willebroek aan het water
The biggest gain usually sits at the edges of your process, where your package stops and the email starts. Driver check-ins, loading and unloading notes, photos of damage, waiting times, extra work, recharging costs. Every one of those lives in mailboxes today.
We build screens for that which work on a phone and take seconds to fill in, connected to your existing system. Everything comes in the moment it happens, and your invoicing keeps pace instead of trailing behind.
Around the logistics zone sits a ring of smaller companies: technical services, maintenance, packaging, installation, trade. For them we build more compact systems. Planning, work orders, quotes, a customer portal.
We start with the part that costs the most time and extend from there. That way the first invoice has already paid for itself before the second piece gets built.
Where we are
Build More works from Puurs-Sint-Amands and Boom. Willebroek sits between the two offices, about ten minutes from each. For companies here, dropping by is never a problem, not even for a short working meeting.
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FAQ
Willebroek sits between our two offices, about ten minutes from Puurs-Sint-Amands and ten minutes from Boom. Coming over is a short drive for us.
Usually yes, through its API or through automatic file exchange. We rarely replace your package entirely. We build the piece that is missing and make sure it talks to your existing system.
Yes. We deliberately build screens that work on a phone and take seconds to fill in, because otherwise they do not get used. Loading and unloading notes, photos, waiting times and extra work come in the moment they happen.
A well-defined tool or MVP starts around €8,000, a full platform lands between €25,000 and €75,000. After a first conversation you get a fixed price and a date within 24 hours.
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When do you replace Excel with a custom application? The warning signs, the real cost of spreadsheet errors and a step-by-step plan for SMEs.
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