Product Configurator Software
BuyDesign Configurator: a product and sales configurator for your web and enterprise applications
BuyDesign Configurator is a new generation of sales and product configurator software that can be easily integrated with any or all of your web, enterprise, desktop, or laptop systems. Powerful and intuitive, BuyDesign Configurator has the flexibility to handle just about any customizable product or service, and support just about any type of user or application.
Simplify, Automate & Standardize
As part of BuyDesign sales solutions and/or embedded within your ERP, CRM, or other application systems, BuyDesign Configurator enables you to:
Simplify product selection, configuration, and pricing functions, while ensuring a valid product is always specified.
Automate generation of the configuration-specific drawings, documents, and data needed to rapidly produce and deliver a product, and support customer needs.
Standardize configuration processes across multiple applications, tasks, and people to ensure consistent results.
Product Configurator Benefits
Using BuyDesign’s robust product configurator, you can:
- Accelerate key processes such as quoting, order entry, and price book/catalog generation.
- Increase sales by making every sales person, customer service rep, dealer, and distributor a product expert.
- Decrease costs by reducing the need for engineering support in sales and other processes.
- Eliminate errors in product specification and pricing.
- Enable growth with the ability to quickly train new employees and sales partners.
- Speed new product introduction by reducing or eliminating the need to distribute product and pricing updates.
- Streamline production and improve quality by providing accurate configuration-specific information to manufacturing.
- Differentiate yourself from the competition by becoming “easy to do business with” when dealing with your customized products.
How Our Product Configuration Software Works
To start, BuyDesign Configurator enables you to:
- Capture the knowledge of your product experts in easily maintained product models containing the rules, constraints and information needed to consistently drive the configuration process
- Publish product models from the central repository to the people and applications that need them
BuyDesign Configurator then uses the product models to:
- Guide users through selection of the product, features, options, and dimensions that best fit their needs
- Display images and information that help make choices and verify selections
- Ensure that only valid combinations are chosen
- Suggest related items when appropriate (e.g. cross-sell & up-sell)
- Calculate price, cost, and other information such as performance parameters or engineering specifications based on the product configuration
- Generate a wide range of configuration-specific outputs, including:
- Quote and proposal documents for sales
- 2D drawings, 3D CAD models, and rendered images for real-time visualization, or as deliverables for proposal packages, production, and other purposes
- Part numbers, bills of material (BOMs), and routings for manufacturing
- Other specialized outputs
Deploy Anywhere, Manage Centrally
Besides its flexibility and ease of use, BuyDesign Configurator has uniquely powerful integration and administration capabilities. Using these tools, you can easily deploy BuyDesign Configurator for a specific function, or across all your applications and computing platforms. You can decide to make it available to particular individuals or to your global community of employees, partners and customers. With BuyDesign Configurator, you can:
- Integrate with web, client-server, or native applications on Windows, iSeries, or UNIX platforms using native APIs or Web services
- Deploy online via the Web or your Intranet and/or distribute to remote desktops and laptops with automated Internet-based synchronization
- Offer role-based configuration capabilities to your sales force, customer service personnel, dealers, distributors, and end customers from a single, consistent product model
- Manage all information, including product and pricing data, images, CAD models, configuration rules, user profiles, etc. from a central point
- Scale up to any number of applications and users with multi-server, load balancing, and failover capabilities
