General Information about the Product Configurator
Why Use a Product Configurator?
A product configurator provides system support to manage and combine several variants and models of a product.
The ongoing trend is that the market demands more unique and customer-specific products. A number of years ago you could, for example, not choose from very many variants when you bought a new car. Today you can make quite a few personal choices and the manufacturing in many cases follow the customer's specific requests.
A product configurator helps you to manage several variants and models of a product. The advantages are many and of great support in several operation fields.
How to Use the MONITOR Product Configurator
The Product Configurator in MONITOR can be used in several different situations and needs depending the field of operation and work method:
- Sales - The Product Configurator makes it easy to define different product variants when making quotes and orders, and you can directly see which configurations that are possible to create and what they will cost. The MONITOR Product Configurator can with advantage be combined with a web solution in order to present an optional and user friendly interface to e.g. salesmen or customers etc. - this provides increased availability.
- Production - The Product Configurator enables you to manufacture the right product variant with correct operation and material contents. This provides smooth management of variants from each separate order, directly generated from the customer order. Pre-calculations, structure lists, delivery time checks and corresponding structure management are made for any configuration. Many different product variants based on a minimal range of parts.
- Aftermarket - The Product Configurator enables detailed follow-ups and traceability of each product variant. With an integrated product register, the information for each sold (specific) product is managed via a unique serial number. This facilitates the management and provision of spare parts, guarantee undertaking and maintenance of each unique product variant.