Product Configuration
Do you want to know how product configuration in Windchill or SAP best supports your business?
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If done right, Product Configuration provides the foundation for offering customers a large degree of choice, whilst keeping internal, technical variance (cost) at a minimum.
Product Configuration facilitates the Configure to Order (CtO) business model.
This approach reduces complexity for the company by utilising predefined building blocks within framework of the product architecture to meet the customers demands.
As a result customers experience a relatively high degree of choice, whilst the company is able to deliver a solution with little to no design customisation
Advantages of Product Configuration
- Effectively manage large product design variance
- Enable CtO if coupled to Sales Configuration solution
- Customers decide based on functionality
- Reduces costs
- Provides a personalised user experience
- Enables changing technical solutions, without changing Sales Options
- Satisfy customer need for product variance
Product Configuration is not an entry level option for enterprises that are still developing their capabilities.
While it offers significant opportunities, it also comes with challenging requirements and demands. To succeed, businesses must ensure their processes, systems and data structures are all well-aligned and carefully managed.
Successful Product Configuration requires a high level of maturity in the following capabilities
- A stable and structured product architecture
- Configuration rules and logic (covering both sales and technical options)
- System support including rigorous change management
- Organisational anchoring and centralized governance
- Well defined and enforced Roles and Responsibilities
To ensure a smooth implementation of Product Configuration BoostPLM supports your company with:
To ensure a smooth implementation of Product Configuration BoostPLM supports your company with:
- Defining and planning adjustments to current IT architecture and data models
- Specifying and evaluating relevant IT solutions
- Setting up necessary systems required for the new infrastructure – creating bespoke interfaces if necessary
- Identifying requirements and maturing current data
- Defining and planning adjustments to current IT architecture and data models
- Defining, altering and introducing relevant processes – including necessary training
BoostPLM provides your company with structured and efficient assistance for implementation, ensuring that both technology and data support the process
BoostPLM provides your company with structured and efficient assistance for implementation, ensuring that both technology and data support the process
