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Business management cloud software

Giving you the edge
in competitiveness and profitability

Large inventory suppliers to the Building, Timber, Electrical and Plumbing trades have specific needs. Australia’s leading business management system was built specifically around those needs, whether you operate a single site or multi-branch, retail or trade (or both!).

Optimised stock holdings

Optimised stock holdings

Profitable Business

Profitable Business

Platform your future growth

Platform your future growth

Eliminated costly mistakes

Eliminated costly mistakes

The edge you need to
take it to the competition

  • A better-run, more profitable business
  • Optimise your stock holdings
  • Platform your future growth
  • Powerful business data at your fingertips; stock, margins, buying needs etc
  • Eliminate costly mistakes
  • Simple for the team to use
  • Quicker processes giving staff more time to sell
  • Freeing you up to build your business

Management Software with everything you need, and nothing you don’t

Industry specific features Industry specific features

Industry Specific Features

Single or Multi Branch Single or Multi Branch

Single or Multi-Branch

Integrated financials Integrated financials

Fully integrated financials

Inventory management Inventory management

Inventory Management

Trade desk sales Trade desk sales

Trade Desk Sales

Project Management Project Management

Project Management

Point of sale icon Point of sale

Point of Sale

Integration and workflow Integration and workflow

Integration and Workflow

Industry specific features

Industry Specific Features

    • Timber handling and pack management
    • Hardware, buying group integration
    • Plumbing, rebates, linked purchasing, cost hiding
    • Electrical, cable rolls management
    • Frame and Truss, manufacturing package integration
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Single or Multi Branch

Single or Multi-Branch

    Multi-Branch

    • Real time view of all locations, no overnight data synchronisation
    • Branch transfer, company-wide stock management
    • Branch level financial management

    Single Branch

    • Removes complexity without loss of value
    • Simple transaction management
    • Ease and simplicity
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Integrated financials

Fully integrated financials

    • Financial are fully included and integrated to the package
    • No need for an separate financial system
    • Finance includes GL, AP, AR, Bank and reporting
    • Full reconciliation and tax processing
    • Supports multi-company and multi-branch
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Inventory management

Inventory Management

    • Capable to handle hundreds of thousands items
    • Comprehensive multi-branch Stock control
    • Choice of costing systems
    • Multiple UOM and suppliers – one SKU
    • Buying group integration and price book import
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Trade desk sales

Trade Desk Sales

    • From a simple, single transaction to complex
    • Integrated Project system to manage large jobs
    • Integrated purchasing
    • Comprehensive pricing and costing models to suite all requirements
    • Simple to comprehensive pick, pack and release system
    • Integration into transport management and proof of deliver systems
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Project Management

Project Management

    • Manage your projects from a single location
    • Consolidated quotation at the level you require
    • Supports imports from manufacturing and job systems
    • Project templates and task management for repeatable success
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Point of Sale

    • Fully functioning and integrated POS system
    • Simple to use, fast processing
    • Works with most POS hardware solutions
    • Integrated EFTPOS and signature Pads
    • Your choice of reward systems including buying group solutions
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Integration and workflow

Integration and Workflow

    Automated Notifications

    • Communicate with your customers, keep them informed
    • Choose a preferred method for each customer, set once and let the system manage it
    • Selection of events and processes

    Integration

    • Open integration framework
    • Integrate to any 3rd party systems like CRM, shopping carts, manufacturing packages and buying group systems
    • Industry defined integration standards for maximum flexibility
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The choice of leaders

The only solution developed by the industry, for the industry. Frameworks is the choice of the leading building, plumbing and electrical trade suppliers throughout Australia and New Zealand. We have close working relationships with all the major buying groups and continue to enhance the product directed to the needs of their membership.

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Business managers recommend our software:

"As an HBT member we looked to purchase a business management solution that met the specific needs of the building supplies industry but was also a single integrated application to meet all our software needs. These guys know our industry and have built an application to deliver to our market."

Brendan Kent, CEO, Kents Building Supplies

"Natbuild, both through our head office and members, have enjoyed a strong and supportive relationship with Sterland for over 22 years. Sterland’s ERP platform has remained one of the major ‘go-to’ solutions in our Industry and is widely used by our Members, being the number one application used by Members of our group."

Peter Way, CEO, National Building Suppliers Group Pty. Ltd.

"Western ITM has been a Sterland customer for over 20 years and we are now embarking on the migration of our business to the Frameworks solution. Frameworks delivers efficiencies for our teams with easy access to information and the ability to complete processes productively."

Dawne Mihaere, CEO, Western ITM

"For the past 12 years Sterland's software has allowed me to streamline operations and keep my finger on the pulse of my business. ProStix and Frameworks have been an integral part of Fitzpatrick’s success."

Richard Fitzpatrick, Owner, Fitzpatrick's

"There are many functional and architectural aspects of Frameworks that meets our needs, from a single centralised database allowing access across all data at all times; through to its user interface design that simplifies transactional processing."

Darren Donald, CIO, Sunshine Mitre 10

"The Sterland team were customer focused and thorough in reviewing our business requirements and procedures. They professionally managed our implementation to ensure our team were trained, our data was ready for migration and back-end systems were ready for a smooth cut-over."

Scott Van Eck, CEO, Gordon Macdonald Pty Ltd

"Dahlsens have been using Sterland’s application for over 20 years and their latest version takes this to the next level. Frameworks is not only intuitive to use but makes the data critical to my business easy to access when and how we need it."

Geoff Dahlsens, CEO, Dahlsens Building Centres

"Frameworks was chosen as it offered superior inventory management and sales processing facilities to run our store operations. Frameworks allows us to focus on the running of our operation and to maximise business profitability. Sterland offers us their experience in the building supplies industry to help us along our journey."

Don Reed, CEO, Dyers Road ITM

"Sterland Computing has provided us with the backup and support to keep growing our business. I recommend Sterland computing as their skill and expertise in helping us is second to none."

Mick Weyman, General Manager, Camerons H Hardware