Keep the variety of variants under control with a product configurator

Map your customer-specific products efficiently and put your variant management on a new basis

Configure product variants quickly and easily

Avoid faulty configurations with predefined rules

Use extended product information via interface from the ERP system

Reliable product configuration

Whether mechanical engineering companies that offer machines in a wide range of variants, heating installers who have to plan a suitably dimensioned heating system, or manufacturers of safety technology for automated production lines − many companies face the challenge of efficiently mapping their variant management. Anyone who sells products that can be customized with various options knows how difficult it is to keep an eye on the possible variants.

Users and customers want to know which features can be combined or are mutually exclusive. If the variants are strongly branched and the variant management is therefore opaque, this task proves to be extremely time-consuming and error-prone. If it only becomes apparent at the end of the configuration process that the desired variant does not work, this is unsatisfactory, especially for customers. In the worst case, the faulty configuration can even have security implications. Meeting regulatory requirements can also be relevant in this context.

Product configurators prevent such errors in the selection and combination of components. Using stored rules that determine which options can and cannot be combined with each other, you ensure that only permissible variants can be created and ordered. The connection of the product configurator to your ERP system helps you to display not only the available products and components but also the correct information about them and to provide them with prices.

At a glance

Cloud application with global availability
Integration of customer-specific variants and options
Integration into existing system landscapes via standardized interfaces
Multi-cloud capability (SAP Business Technology Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud)

Product configurators are an easy way to handle the variant management with a digital solution. It does not matter whether you want to use such a configurator for your internal sales or for your customers.

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Marius Carl

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Optimal solution for numerous applications

Our product configurators are suitable for use in various areas, sectors and industries.

Typical applications are:

Combination of different manufacturing variants in the manufacturing industry
Creation of various formulations, for example in the cosmetics industry
(Semi-)automatic design of technical and non-technical plants based on various input parameters

Standardized web and interface technologies form the basis of our product configurators. A document-based database ensures individual configuration and integration of your variants and options. The front-end can be adapted to your specific needs so that it is optimally tailored to your application and can be seamlessly embedded into your corporate IT landscape. The ERP integration ensures that daily updated prices and other relevant information are always taken into account during configuration.

Application examples for product configurators

Use Case: Mechanical Engineering

Variant management with customer-specific options

Does your company manufacture machines that can be customized? You offer different variants of a product and would like to give your sales staff or your customers the possibility to configure and calculate the variants individually according to the required equipment?

Use a product configurator for this purpose. It is able to combine hierarchies of options with each other, to recognize dependencies and necessary equipment features or to mutually exclude them. In this way, your complex variant management finds a home.

Use case: Conception of production lines

Consideration of security requirements and auto-completion

You would like to install a new production line and have to fulfill various safety or regulatory requirements? Make it easy for yourself during project planning, for example, by selecting only the desired manufacturing robot and all required safety barriers, switches and other components of the safety control system are automatically listed in your material list. This is exactly what the product configurator can do for you by integrating the safety rules.

Use case: Project planning of heating systems

Planning on the basis of input parameters

You are a heating installer and would like to calculate the correct dimensioning of the heating system for a building project? With the help of forms and calculation models, a product configurator queries all relevant parameters and automatically dimensions the optimal heating system for you. The configurator then creates a complete material list including all necessary small parts, material numbers, unit prices and other relevant information.

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