Client: Cooper Industries

Location: Peachtree City, GA

Task: Cooper Industries manufactures thousands of products through several different Cooper divisions. Although these different divisions often sell complementary products and target the same customers, Cooper Industries did not have a structure in place to allow a coordination of efforts. As a result, business opportunities were lost.

The Cooper Joint Planner is a combination application that marries an Extranet and a permissions-based calendar scheduling system. The Joint Planner generates calendar-based marketing plans for customers, distributors and Cooper Industries' sales staff that include the ability to schedule training activities, promotions, counter days, joint sales meetings and merchandising events within a single Cooper division or across multiple divisions simultaneously. It also controls management review schedules that benefit all of the Cooper divisions jointly as well as individually. For additional event clarity, public or private notes can be created and attached to each event, even by users with low permission levels. The online database of events updates changes in real-time to avoid overlap of limited resources or personnel. Distributors can view the calendar allowing them to know when Cooper Industries personnel will be on-site at their location, but their ability to edit is limited to creating notes.

GUI Design
Interaction Design
Web Development

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