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Product Configuration: The Critical Link in Any Demand Driven Supply Chain

Being able to accurately forecast demand for build-to-order, configure-to-order and engineer-to-order products throughout a supply chain begins with a scalable, multi-channel based product configuration strategy. While product configuration often is used for integrating catalog data, pricing, and delivering Bill of Materials (BOM) into ERP systems so products can be produced, they also are exceptionally good at providing insights into how to better handle Vendor Managed Inventory and reverse logistics.

Jul 30, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Steps to Making Your Product Configuration Projects Successful – Part II

Louis Columbus
Cincom Systems
Continuing on with this series on steps you can take to make your product configuration strategies successful, let’s look at the need to tie into product catalogs, and this includes the many websites, pricing systems and service systems you may already have in place.
Here are three more lessons learned when it comes to [...]

Jul 24, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Musical Champions of Product Configuration, We Salute You!

It’s a little known fact but there are hundreds of contributions musicians from every genre of music are making to product customization and product configuration at instrument companies. From the high-energy Brian Setzer who throughout his career helped fine-tune Gretsch to the many guitarists who contributed at Fender, the list is a hall of [...]

Jul 24, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Why Selling Needs To be So Much Like Teaching

Louis Columbus
Cincom Systems
The best sales professionals I’ve ever known are also the most focused – call it obsessed – with their prospects and customers’ unmet needs. They live to make an impact for their prospects and customers. There are many stereotypes of sales people however; the loud, often overbearing old school sales professionals that relied [...]

Jun 22, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

The Perfect Order Meets Customer Expectations: Why Being Demand Driven Matters More Than Ever

Louis Columbus
Cincom Systems
In the face of economic uncertainty the inherently unquantifiable areas of a company get a higher level of attention than ever before.
The center of attention for many companies today is the integration of marketing strategies and programs to supply chain planning, management and optimization. The extent to which marketing and supply chain management [...]

May 05, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Discovery Driven Growth and Product Configuration: Made For Each Other

Louis Columbus
Cincom Systems
Harvard Business School Publishing has one of the best channels on YouTube, it is a great source of learning and insight. You can find the channel here. The video below features Dr. Rita McGrath, Professor, Columbia Business School, speaking about her latest book co-authored with Ian C. MacMillan, Discovery-Driven Growth.
What makes this [...]

Apr 21, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

MIT’s Lean Advancement Initiative: Making the Transition to Lean Product Development Including Product Configuration

Louis Columbus
Cincom Systems
The Lean Advanced Initiative at MIT is one of the leading thought leadership organizations in the area of lean manufacturing theories being applied pragmatically to complex system- and process-related problems. In this video Dr. Eric Rebentisch explains results of research completed by the Initiative focused on assisting enterprises with the transition to lean [...]

Mar 02, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Earning a Higher ROI (Return on Interaction) With Your Customers Using Product Configuration

Louis Columbus
Cincom Systems
Instead of concentrating purely on efficiency, product configuration strategies have the potential of bringing the Voice of the Customer (VOC) into product development, design, selling, and service processes of any organization. Guided selling and product configuration strategies increase the accuracy and speed of transactions many companies rely on for customizing their products – [...]

Feb 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Quality Management with Cincom Acquire

Quality management in complex industries has certain requirements in order to meet the highest demands from both a product and regulatory standpoint. Quality and control are vital focuses for complex manufacturing, where, depending on the product, non-conformance or substandard quality can mean the difference between a safe product and one that is dangerous.
Standard [...]

Feb 11, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

The Importance of CRM in Small Business

Complex manufacturers with CRM needs aren’t always the largest corporations. In fact, most of the complex manufacturers that desperately need the right CRM strategy and process are considered small businesses, but the ‘small business’ mentality often leads to a lacking CRM approach. Most small businesses simply do not realize just how much the [...]

Feb 10, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Sales and Product Configuration Integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

More and more, businesses are choosing hosted services to allow a focus on core competencies rather than relying on a separate division to give them access to expert knowledge. With the innovative leveraging of industry-standard technology provided by Microsoft Dynamics CRM, businesses can select the hosted model and still take advantage of the enhanced [...]

Feb 09, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Cincom Acquire’s Sales and Product Configurator 2.0

Every corporation knows that without expert knowledge and experience in their workforce, they cannot compete. Even the best and most brilliant of new minds with innovative ideas must reference back to expert knowledge in order to move an idea forward to the next level, and so it is with the Product Configuration industry. [...]

Feb 08, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Cincom Acquire’s Collaboration Technology

It’s no secret that lean front office success requires collaboration between people, processes and systems, but it’s also no secret that collaboration and integration of these key factors is not easy. In a climate of competitive challenges and economic barriers that are confronting complex manufacturers now, the key elements of integration and collaboration are [...]

Feb 04, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Acquire Addresses Industry Wide Barriers to Success

Cincom Acquire’s Sales and Product Configuration modules address the industry-wide barriers to your company’s success with proven and powerful integrated tools. With Cincom Acquire’s efficient, portal-based solutions, you can automate sales and product configuration, proposal configuration, guided selling, cost estimation, program management contract management processes and team collaboration so you can move faster and sell [...]

Feb 03, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Sales and Product Configurator The Key to Unlocking Your Company’s Success

The barriers to your company’s success are addressed and abolished by Cincom Acquire’s sales and product configuration. There are well known and established internal corporate barriers to sales success which must be taken head on in order to grow your business and compete in a global market.
With Cincom Acquire’s efficient, portal-based solutions, you can [...]

Feb 02, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post