Reduces the time to engineer, document, produce and deliver products.
Ensures correct specifications.
Leverages your expertise.
Slashes quote turnaround time and decreases manufactures lead time.
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CONFIGURATOR+ is an object oriented order and product configuration tool.
It is ideal for companies that need to ensure their quotes and orders contain the right
mix of items (that is, a valid configuration.) It also helps ensure that
"made-to-order" products are correctly specified and accurately translated into
manufacturing information.. More
on Object-Based Manufacturing...
CONFIGURATOR+ allows companies to leverage their engineering and sales expertise by putting
this knowledge into a system that others can use in selling and ordering. Having this
intelligence incorporated into CONFIGURATOR+ increases productivity while ensuring accurate, complete quotes and orders.
CONFIGURATOR+ enables non-experts to specify configurations, by filtering out inappropriate
customer choices and making available only those that match the customer’s needs.
CONFIGURATOR+ generates the appropriate manufacturing information (bills of materials,
routings, dynamic work instructions and more).
CONFIGURATOR+ is a "rules based configurator". Once you have defined your
configuration rules, you simply enter customer specifications (as parameters, codes,
and/or part numbers). It also accepts dimensional specifications and supports complex
formulas.
CONFIGURATOR+ then translates the specifications into bills of material, routings, process
information, manufacturing work instructions, product costing, and pricing. It can even
calculate parameters for CNC machines, optimizers, and cut lists.
In short, CONFIGURATOR+ helps you to quickly translate your customer’s needs into valid bundles of
correctly specified and correctly priced products as well as manufacturing information.
CONFIGURATOR+ was developed to increase the number and flexibility of product variations you
can offer. More importantly, CONFIGURATOR+ helps you respond quickly to fulfill special requests, because it quickly
converts your customer’s needs into customized manufacturing specifications.
And C ONFIGURATOR+ fits in with your existing systems, because its output is in a format that can
be easily utilized by most manufacturing database systems and standard report writers.
The net result: enabling you to slash quote turnaround times,
improve sales productivity, increase order accuracy, reduce manufacturing lead times to
speed order fulfillment, and enhance customer service levels.
Powerful Functionality
- Allows product pricing based on attribute prices, as well as
"cost roll-up plus margin"
- Supports multiple-level option dependencies
- Accepts, validates, and translates "intelligent" catalog
numbers
- Accepts dimensional specifications
- Supports complex formulas
- Supports an (available) extension layer for external programming
- Calculates parameters for CNC machines, optimizers, and cut lists
Compatibility & Connectivity
Requires SMARTQUOTE to generate quotes and orders
- Easy interface with industry-standard ERP and SFA systems
- Three-tier application architecture
- Connects to external databases via ODBC for item master and routing
Easy To Use
- Specifications can be entered as descriptive parameters, codes,
and/or part numbers
No programming is needed to set up, maintain or use CONFIGURATOR+
- "Turbo" feature allows high-speed order entry, with full
runs postponed to a more convenient time
Reports & Documents
- Bills of Material
- Process Information
- Product Costing and Pricing
Controls & Standards
- Ensures 100% complete information is captured for quote, order, and
product configurations
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