MiTek’s Latest SAPPHIRE™ Module Offers the Industry’s Only Unified 3D Estimating Tool for Lumber and Building Material Dealers
Customer Reviews and Implementations Confirm SAPPHIRE™ Supply’s Unique Value and Capability for Unifying Sales and Estimating, and Improving Accuracy and Collaboration
CHESTERFIELD, MO –MiTek® Industries,a Berkshire Hathawaycompany, recently announced that itsSAPPHIRE Supplysoftware solution is gaining strong reception, evaluation and adoption among leading lumber and building material dealers.
Designed specifically to meet the needs of lumber and building material dealers, SAPPHIRESupplyis a single-sourcesoftware solution that uniquely combines complete materials estimating and structural frame design. SAPPHIRE Supplyalso incorporatesthe building material supplier’s product SKU’s to create a complete quote, while performing analysis and design ona wide range of structural products including leading proprietary engineered wood products (EWP), dimensional lumber, and metal connectors and hangers.
Since SAPPHIRE Supplyis part of the SAPPHIRE Suite, SAPPHIRE Supplyallows dealers who are suppliers of USP Structural Connectorsand their MiTek component manufacturers to collaborate by sharing common Building Information Models (BIM), all of which can be viewed on MiTek’s free SAPPHIRE Viewersoftware.
SAPPHIRE Supplyuses a single shared structural model, offering lumber dealers a unified solution for efficient, consistent and accurate modeling and estimating across their organizations. SAPPHIRE Supply approach eliminates the classic problem of inconsistent sales estimating within an organization,delivering accurate modeling and estimating on every home.
Since SAPPHIRE Supplyis based on the geometry of a structural model,the software can also generateSKU-based materials counts for non-structural materials, such as drywall, house wrap and even millwork. SAPPHIRE Supply’s flexible formula-builder,coupled with the power to define accumulation rules, results in accurate material counts to match how materials are actually supplied. Verifiable bills of materials (BOMs) can be generated with exacting precision and arevisually tracked within the 3D structural model.
Additionally, SAPPHIRESupply’s automated framing tools allow users to quickly evaluate alternative framing scenarios. Since multiple structural product solutions can be simultaneously designed for the same framing member, this allowsclear choices among a range of optimized solutions.
SAPPHIRE Supplyalso offers precision load distribution paths, from the ridge to the foundation, and it displays how those loads pass through each member of the entire structure. Load paths can be visually traced in either 2D or 3D view.
“MiTek continues to innovate and release new software solutions as part of our SAPPHIRE Suite. SAPPHIRE Supply is part of our award-winning offering of integrated, optimized, collaborative design solutions,” said MiTek’s Brian McCormick, Director of Residential Supply Chain. “Using any module of the SAPPHIRE Suite allows information sharing and design collaboration to the lot-specific level, helping to ensure the Buildability™ of any structure.”
About MiTek Industries
MiTek Industries is a diversified global supplier of software, engineered products, services, and equipment to the residential, commercial, and industrial, construction sectors. MiTek Industries’ passion for our associates’ well-being and for our customers’ success through continuous process improvement is the company’s hallmark. A Berkshire Hathaway company (NYSE: brk-a, NYSE: brk-b) since 2001, the Company has operations in more than 40 countries on six continents. Learn more: and
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