Home Improvement Manufacturer experiences 30% reduction in Partner training time

Success Story Overview

Industry: Manufacturing

Impacted Users: Cabinet designers, purchasing and project managers within big box retail and dealer channels

Client Overview

This large home improvement manufacturer combines more than a century of product craftsmanship spanning 18 brands and 7,000+ employees – making it easy for consumers to create a beautiful home.

Key Challenges and Goals

  • Complex merger and acquisition history causing some friction with many platform partners use and support
  • Need to minimize costly errors by CAD Designers
  • High turnover of designers required efficient training program

Key Use Cases

  • One-stop-shop portal allows variety of users to access ordering, product documentation, training, support and the latest news
  • Create a scalable, cloud-native, custom-developed portal that sets the standard for ease of doing business and customer service
  • Learning allows users to meet and track Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3 Certifications
  • Users can pin favorite content which will show on their homepage (custom component)
  • Users see key tasks to complete on home page which can include learning but also any other important task to complete (custom component)

Key Appinium Tools and Features Used

  • Certifications and achievements
  • Learning Plans/Tracs – online self-paced courses
  • Media catalogs and playlists
  • Auto-assignment of Learning
  • Instructor Led training for Private Training Sessions with clients

Key Results

  • Shortened time to train new home improvement designers
  • Increased brand loyalty
  • Fewer errors by designers
  • Sales team can ensure the right content is assigned dynamically to contacts using auto-assign rules