CS-Enterprise is a comprehensive suite of application software products for manufacturing companies who routinely deal with product and process variability to streamline and manage the complete Enterprise Configuration Cycle business process and associated workflows that include:
- Custom needs assessment
- Product selection - Choice Management & Product Configuration
- Guided & suggestive selling
- Product & process visualization
- Configured product costing
- Configured pricing / discounting
- Quotation and proposal generation and management
- Sales order presentation, confirmation and acknowledgement
- Real time Bill of Materials and Process Routing generation
- Generation of product and component level CAD drawings, manufacturing instructions and cut sheets/ segmented work lists
- Real time Promising and sequencing of configured final assemblies, sub assemblies and component parts based on critical material and capacity availability
- Generation of configured installation documentation and specifications
- Attribute oriented shipping and loading schedules
- Complete real time integration to ERP, CRM, PLM, CAD systems
- Complete product variation analysis for demand planning & forecasting
- Remote synchronized processing and execution
CS-Enterprise Designed From The "Bottom Up"
CS-Enterprise was specifically designed from the "Bottom Up"... to solve engineering and manufacturing configuration first, and then subsequently deployed for product selection, guided selling and sales configuration processes.
This approach, coupled with the deep manufacturing domain experience of the founders and the current configuration solution team of experienced system engineers and consultants, has allowed the CS-Enterprise solutions to be successfully implemented in over 145 companies across an expansive and all encompassing industry user base.
CS-Enterprise can be implemented to streamline configuration related business processes across the Enterprise either independently for sales and marketing, engineering, manufacturing and/or logistics or, as a complete integrated enterprise solution.
CS-Enterprise Includes Both Unique And Standard Capabilities For Handling:
- Complex products & systems
- Unlimited nested multi-level products
- Dimensional related products
- Base product configuration and "Specials"
- Integration to specialized industry design models & routines (performance curves, design software)
- Seamless integration to and/or emulation of your existing e-commerce or proprietary web site
- Remote disconnected configuration for Field Sales, Distributors and Representatives with routine synchronization to and from your Host systems.
- Multiple user interfaces for functional product / feature selection and specification:
- Guided tutorial modes
- Hi speed "Excel-like" modes
- Full graphical modes
- Click by click messaging, pricing, and error display and correction
If You Require Product Or Process Configuration Management Solutions For:
- Product selection, guided selling & pricing
- Configured kitting and Purchase to Order (PTO)
- Assembled to Order (ATO)
- Make to Order (MTO)
- Engineer to Order (ETO)
CS-Enterprise Is The Complete Solution.
Learn more about how product configuration can affect your department, and your company's bottom line.
Read our white papers:
Configuration Software Comes of Age - Process and Product Configuration and
The Web Continuum of Product Configuration