ConfiguratorPlus

ConfiguratorPlus 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 ConfiguratorPlus increases productivity while ensuring accurate, complete quotes and orders.

ConfiguratorPlus enables non-experts to specify configurations, by filtering out inappropriate customer choices and making available only those that match the customer’s needs.

ConfiguratorPlus generates the appropriate manufacturing information (bills of materials, routings, dynamic work instructions and more).

How ConfiguratorPlus Works

ConfiguratorPlus 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.

ConfiguratorPlus 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, ConfiguratorPlus helps you to quickly translate your customer’s needs into valid bundles of correctly specified and correctly priced products as well as manufacturing information.

Competitive Advantages

ConfiguratorPlus was developed to increase the number and flexibility of product variations you can offer. More importantly, ConfiguratorPlus helps you respond quickly to fulfill special requests, because it quickly converts your customer’s needs into customized manufacturing specifications.

And ConfiguratorPlus 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.

ConfiguratorPlus Features

• 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

• 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

• Specifications can be entered as descriptive parameters, codes, and/or part numbers
• No programming is needed to set up, maintain or use ConfiguratorPlus
• "Turbo" feature allows high-speed order entry, with full runs postponed to a more convenient time

• Bills of Material
• Process Information
• Product Costing and Pricing

• Ensures 100% complete information is captured for quote, order, and product configurations