What can you do with Enterprise Configurator?
You have had interaction with configurators without even realizing it. Today most items that we purchase have options, selections or choices. Whether it’s a car, industrial equipment, Nike shoes or even T-Shirts are being configured with the use of a configurator. With configurator, you can:- Configure Custom Quotes
- Configure Complete Proposals with Attachments
- Configure Complete Made to Order Jobs
- Configure Engineer to Order Products with Bills of Materials and Routings
- Deploy with most ERP Systems – including Cloud & Onsite

Why Configurator?
Odds are good that you currently configure your quotes and products manually in some sort of spreadsheet or another type of document. This process gets the job done but it is time consuming and might even be using your engineering resources. Electronic Configurator allows you to consolidate, centralize and record the knowledge of the most senior members of your sales and engineering team and make it available to everyone in your organization in order to accelerate the sales process.
The sales process then becomes a repeatable process that is efficient and responsive to the needs of your customer. If you offer a product that is customizable, you will benefit from the sales process framework that configurator creates.
Configurator creates confidence in your organization by quickly generating accurate, detailed and professional looking quotes to your customers. This translates to more quote conversions because your customer expects that you will deliver a product to them at the same professional quality with which you handled the sales process.
You can condense your most complex sales and engineering knowledge into rules of the configurator, which in turn will allow you to trust that both your junior sales person and outside dealers will be able to configure a quote, product, job, or production order that is both accurate and competitive. Your complex sales process turns into a simple guided click-through application. Configurator utilizes the pricing, product and customer data from your ERP and other applications to produce a quote along with bills of materials, routings, and drawings which will be used in the actual manufacturing and delivery of the product to your customer. Your high-cost engineering and senior sales staff is able to focus on strategic initiatives instead of spending their days in a race to deliver a quote to your customers.
software your complex rules for building Quotes, Orders and Jobs. By doing so, you are able to shorten your quote to shipment cycle.

Guided, repeatable process
Salespeople utilize a guided, repeatable process to configure a quote for a customer
Intuitive, self-explanatory
The process is intuitive and self-explanatory. There is typically little or no training required.The process is fast and guarantees a quick turn-around for a customer, generating confidence that their order will be fulfilled in the same fashion
Built-in expertise
The configuration steps have your company’s expertise built-in, further generating customer confidence
Automatic calculations
Choosing a specific component during configuration is automatically reflected by hiding incompatible options and presenting approved options. Prices and lead times are automatically calculated
Trusted advisor
Your company’s expertise is built into the rules, enabling even junior salespeople to become a trusted advisor to the customer
Accurate
Pricing and proposal is correct every time based on the current pricing and defined rules
New items
During configuration the user can define items that do not even exist in your ERP the configurator can automatically create them in the ERP when the quote turns into an order
Immediate feedback
Configuration choices are instantly reflected in the visual display of the product, providing immediate feedback with 2-D or 3-D view. Configuration rules assure that only allowed product combinations are offered to your customer
Attractive quotes
Attractive quote documents are generated, including pictures and attachments
Any device
Quotes can be generated from virtually any device – PC, iPad, Android device, iPhone, web browser, on-line or off-line
Web-based
Since the application is fully web-based, it can also be deployed to your dealers, distributors or directly to your customers. Access is controlled by the use of security on your sales portal
Customer specific pricing
Your customer specific pricing from your ERP is applied. Configuration process can be paused in mid-step and finished later
Version tracking
Already configured quotes can be reconfigured later. Complete tracking of all previous quote versions is available
Reconfigure anytime
Quotes configured on the dealer portal for example, can be later reconfigured inside the ERP software
Configuration matching
Configuration matching is employed to further speed-up the sales process. If the system detects an existing configuration with matching properties, it allows the user to skip the manual configuration. Can configure not just one product but complete a sales order with multiple items on it.
Configuration templates
Achieve major efficiency improvements with predefined configuration templates. Both common and customer-specific templates can be created The system first checks for existing templates and brings them up if available. Selection options enable users to work with an existing template or start from scratch
Polished documentation
Quote documents include pricing, options selected, specifications, pictures, drawings, terms and conditions and other material that you want to have merged into the final document
Quote templates
You can have an unlimited number of quote templates. You can have different templates for each of your product lines for example, or for different types of customers
Dynamically updated
What information and text is inserted into the final quote document is dynamically updated based on the options and choices selected during configuration
Display Options
Allows to dynamically select whether to show dealer pricing or end-customer pricing, costs, list prices and discounted prices
Complex scenarios
There is no limitation to how complex your product may be, how many options there are, or how many levels deep the BOM goes. The configurator can handle even the most complex scenarios
BOMs, routings, assembly instructions
Integration with your MRP means that options and features selected during the configuration are automatically translated into BOMs, routings, assembly instructions, equipment lists, and xml-based output for CAD and CNC systems
CAD and CNC systems
Integration with your MRP means that options and features selected during the configuration are automatically translated into BOMs, routings, assembly instructions, equipment lists, and xml-based output for CAD and CNC systems
Subassemblies, Phantom Items, Kits
Subassemblies, phantom items, and kits can be used in the automatically created BOMs The items to be included on the configured BOM can be driven by option selection, calculation result, or item dependency
Setup times, run times, wait times
Routings are automatically generated based on rules and selections. Setup times, run times, wait times and other router parameters are calculated
Smart part numbers
Configurator allows the use of smart part numbers or automatically generates new part numbers based on rules
No engineering time required
There is no need for engineering time because the configuration follows the engineering constraints. The entire job is configured according to the rules you defined and the constraints that currently exist in your ERP software The BOM, routing, tools, new items and other information specific to the quoted job does not have to be written into your ERP production tables until it turns into an order
ERP integration
Integrated with the ERP system
Wizards
Wizards to help design questions Rules based configurator
Drag and drop
Drag and drop to define calculation and data Person setting up the rules and constraints does not have to have a computer background in order to do it
Off-line
Possible to use it off-line for times when connection to your ERP system is not possible
Real-Time
Data entry and maintenance of your item, pricing, and customer data stays in your ERP, the configurator uses the most current ERP data for its calculations
Customer-specific pricing
The price quote is based on the customer-specific data already setup in your MRP system and can be further modified by rules and any additional calculations you define
Multiple data sources
The data used during configuration and price calculation can be based not only on data from your ERP software, but also on other software, custom tables and databases, spreadsheets or xml documents The price can be based on discounts or markups and rolled up from the lowest level of your BOM
Configuration of tools
Allows configuration of tools that will be required to make the product
Quantity-break pricing
Allows quoting quantity-break pricing
Margin Analysis
Margin analysis of the quoted job can be displayed in real-time as the configuration is done
HTML5
Uses the latest HTML5 user interface which makes it cross-browser and cross-platform compatible, including iOS and Android. This means the configurator can run on iPads, Android tablets and smart phones
Cross-browser and cross-platform
Uses the latest HTML5 user interface which makes it cross-browser and cross-platform compatible, including iOS and Android. This means the configurator can run on iPads, Android tablets and smart phones
iPads, tablets and smartphones
Uses the latest HTML5 user interface which makes it cross-browser and cross-platform compatible, including iOS and Android. This means the configurator can run on iPads, Android tablets and smart phones
XML technology
It is built on the .net platform with C# engine. The core architecture is designed around the latest XML technology with open architecture, which allows it to be easily integrated and embedded into existing dealer or customer portals and CRM systems To ensure maximum flexibility and reduce complex and costly data synchronization, the configurator is designed to work as an intelligent layer on top of any application
Dealer and customer portals
It is built on the .net platform with C# engine. The core architecture is designed around the latest XML technology with open architecture, which allows it to be easily integrated and embedded into existing dealer or customer portals and CRM systems To ensure maximum flexibility and reduce complex and costly data synchronization, the configurator is designed to work as an intelligent layer on top of any application
Business-rules engine
A declarative business-rules engine automatically checks related business rules when a parameter or configuration question is changed
Flexible start
Users are not bound to a single, directional, sequential flow of questions. They can start at any point in the process with the assurance of accurate results
Re-configuration processes
The rules engine supports configuration and re-configuration processes, including checks on new model versions The rules engine is also able to check for existing configurations to prevent redundant information
configurator automatically detects and presents the correct interface based on what device you log in from
