Tag: CPQ

  • Avoid developing your own IKEA kitchen planner

    Avoid developing your own IKEA kitchen planner

    Most companies do not need their own IKEA kitchen planner today. Having easy to use product configurators with CAD exports on their website / customer portal / e-commerce is usually enough for most manufacturers.

    Since space planning only has few rules and can be handled by most professional design software there is little need to develop your own space planners today. Also very few manufacturers (except companies like IKEA) can handle all potential products that need to be included in a space planner, making its use very limited for planning.

    Therefore the most common product configuration setup today is having many easy to use product configurators online that can automatically export CAD files together with the quotation request. 

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  • Typical setup for Visual CPQ with Customer/Distributor Portal

    Typical setup for Visual CPQ with Customer/Distributor Portal

    With the rapid developments in technology these days there exists no single software solution that handles everything for a modern manufacturing company. You need to combine a few different specialized systems to achieve everything from marketing to logistics. Therefore we have provided a system overview of the typical functionalities required for a full setup of a Visual CPQ from CMS (website) to ERP. See our CPQ dictionary for abbreviations.

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  • Common User Stories for B2B CPQ

    When developing new products and solutions for others its always good to have some kind of description on what the intended users might want to do with the solution. A good way to handle this is to create a list of numbered User Stories that can be referenced and used for discussion throughout the project.

    We have collected a few common user stories here that apply for online configurable products where the users should be able to customize and request quotation themselves without prior knowledge of the product.

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  • Strategies for Automated Quotations in B2B CPQ

    Strategies for Automated Quotations in B2B CPQ

    How should you design your digital B2B sales process for customized products in a way that is easy to use and understand for customers, and saves you time? In this post we present the most common approaches and their pros and cons so that you easily can choose how to proceed.

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