Made2Trade is custom software for companies who manage, deal and trade with raw materials like plastic, paper, metal scrap and other bulk materials. Made2Trade is designed to make your business more competitive on the market - by increasing the effectiveness of the salespersons time and automatizing administrative tasks.

This questionnaire helps us to understand your problems and obstacles in growth of your business. Thank to your contribution, we can develop the product as suitable for your business as possible.

To fill in the questionnaire will take approximately 10-12 minutes.

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Questionnaire

I. Company General Data

Name of your company:
Location of your company:
1. What does your company deal with? (you may select more options):	Plastic scrap Paper scrap Metal scrap other
2. What is your company's profile? (you may select more options):	Trading Waste processing Production other
3. Does your company operate own warehouse?:	Yes No
4. Does your company operate own production facility?	Yes No
5. How many employees are working at your company’s office (production, warehouse excluded)?
6. How many trucks/containers does your company deal with per month?
7. What percentage of turnover comes from international sales?

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II. General Obstacles in Growth and Competition

Please rate the questions below from 1 = I do not agree at all to 5 = I strongly agree!

8. Your business has reached its limits and there is no possibility to increase your turnover strongly in the future.
I do not agree at all – 1 2 3 4 5 – I strongly agree

9. The competition is increasing in your market and you have to fight for keeping your existing business.
I do not agree at all – 1 2 3 4 5 – I strongly agree

10. Your company has got too few employees for enlarging your business and making new deals. The sales people do not have enough time to take care of personal relationships.
I do not agree at all – 1 2 3 4 5 – I strongly agree

11. Fighting for suppliers and keeping buyers satisfied creates time pressure. Quick response is needed in everyday business – it is important when we compete with other traders.
I do not agree at all – 1 2 3 4 5 – I strongly agree

12. Can you name any other problems what you see in enlarging your business or competing successfully? Please specify it!

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II. General Obstacles in Growth and Competition

Please rate the questions below from 1 = I do not agree at all to 5 = I strongly agree!

13. Employees usually spend too much time on administration tasks, what could be automatized by software. They could concentrate more on sales and purchase – and making higher profit.
I do not agree at all – 1 2 3 4 5 – I strongly agree

14. Your company does not have a good, transparent, easy-to-search system to record the detailed information about deals (materials, partners, prices, contracts, conditions, details of shipment, related costs, profitability, and complaints).
I do not agree at all – 1 2 3 4 5 – I strongly agree

15. It takes effort to give exact and quick response to partners. If the information-flow were better your partners would work more with you, and it would increase your profit.
I do not agree at all – 1 2 3 4 5 – I strongly agree

16. Information exchange takes too much time with freight forwarding companies. Your company could win time, if there were be an automatic data exchange with delivery companies.
I do not agree at all – 1 2 3 4 5 – I strongly agree

How true are the following statements for your company?	Made2trade offers solutions for every problem what your company might have.
17. The registry of materials is not good enough; it is hard to find details of the offers. Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true	Made2trade stores all material details, customs codes etc. and it is easy to search for any item in the list .
18. Agreed purchasing/sales prices, amounts, delivery costs are not stored in one computer system. Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true	Made2trade stores even the smallest details of your deals..

19. It takes too much time to calculate profitability of a deal "included every cost". Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true	Made2trade helps to calculate the exact profitability of each deal by taking all possible costs into account.
20. It is difficult to track that which delivery is in what status at the moment. Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true	Made2trade gives a quick overview about the status of every deal.

21. The management does not know exactly how much profit and volume were generated by each supplier/buyer.

Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true

Made2trade provides different management reports to understand the performance of your business in all details.

22. Colleagues who are out of the office cannot reach information about the deliveries.

Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true

Made2trade provides access to your database through internet for all your employees.

23. It is difficult to find quickly the cheapest among the actual shipment offers.

Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true

Made2trade enables to record delivery offers in full detail from different freight forwarders and later you can compare the total freight costs by a mouse-click.

24. Making of price calculations takes too much time.

Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true

Made2trade provides a simple platform to make offer price calculations fast.

25. The offers sent to different partners are not stored adequately and it is not easy to find the details of the offer later.

Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true

Made2trade stores all offers sent to different partners, and it is easy to look-up the offer details at a later time.

26. Same data is entered several times to prepare purchasing/sales contracts, delivery bookings etc. – and it takes long time.

Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true

Made2trade enables you to prepare all necessary documents from the program.

Packing list (summarized)

Credit notes, debit notes

Deal folder cover

27. The invoice details are not stored automatically in your accounting software (prepared manually or produced by another program). Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true
28. It takes much effort to inform suppliers/buyers about the details of shipment (pick-up date, arrival date, shipment details etc.) Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true	Made2trade provides easy solution to inform your partners about delivery details.

29. Costs related to deals (inspection costs etc.) are not registered adequately. Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true	Made2trade stores all costs related to deals.
30. Claims related to deals are not documented well. Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true	Made2trade stores all claim / credit invoices related to deals.

31. Your suppliers or customers cannot access any online information about the details of the deliveries. Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true	Made2trade provides online access to relevant shipping and delivery details for your suppliers, customers.
32. Your company finds it difficult to manage its own warehouse. Not true 1 2 3 4 5 Very true	Made2trade offers an extra software module for warehouse management.

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IV. Expectations and Plans

33. Do you consider implementing a new software system / enterprise application to handle your deals at your company?
Consider it in 1 year Consider it in 2 or more years Do not consider it

34. Is the Internet connection reliable at your company?
Reliable – stable, good speed Not so reliable – unstable, slow

35. Choose option more suitable for your company!
Data stored in your own network (install and maintenance is your responsibility) Data stored in an outside server and you would access it online (install and maintenance is done by server operator)

36. To increase your company's profit by reducing administrative works, and getting adequate information about your business performance, how much would you be ready to invest into database software?
10.000 - 15.000 EUR investment would return by increased turnover Only a smaller investment would return, and it would be ca. EUR

37. How do you prefer paying for enterprise software?
Pay one-time sum Monthly fee per company Monthly fee per number of users Other: