Configuration Solutions
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CS-Enterprise: Complete Enterprise Solution
The core focus of the CS Enterprize CRM software suite is to, streamlines quote-to-delivery processes. Whether you are a custom product manufacturer or a provider of customized service offerings, Configuration Solutions has innovative technology to meet your unique business needs.
The flagship, CS-Enterprise application software, lets you quickly deploy a configuration solution throughout your entire organization and extended enterprise. It is designed to handle complex product and process variability with speed and ease, enabling you to gain complete control over the quote-to-delivery cycle while eliminating costs, rework orders and excess sales expenses.
Each of the applications within CS-Enterprise can be integrated with an existing ERP, CRM, CAD and PLM computing environments and can fully support globalization, multiple languages and currency conversion for accurate costing and pricing.
Typical Benefits of CS-Enterprise:
- Reduces cost of sales while enabling 100% order accuracy
- Automates 90% of quote and order processing—with no engineering required
- Reduces lead times by 50-80%
- Decreases order processing time for both standard and configured products
- Creates 96% of order BOMs automatically, with 99% accuracy
- Promotes increased sales and throughput without additional resources or overhead expense
- Reduces time-to-market for higher levels of customer satisfaction
The Enterprise suite of software solutions is made up of 10 applications:
- CS Sales - CS-Sales helps manufacturers compress sales cycles and grow revenues and by equipping the sales force, order entry personnel, channel partners and customers with an interactive Web-enabled solution that guides them through configured product/feature selection to generate accurate costs, product drawings, pricing structures and margin analyses.
- CS Quote - CS-Quote provides a Web-based central repository that makes it fast and easy to quote custom products and services
- CS Expert - CS-Expert is a powerful application designed to speed up and simplify complex product and system specification for ETO/MTO manufacturers and streamline configuration of business and financial services based on variable product offerings.
- CS eCommerce - CS-eCommerce is a complete business-to-business solution that transforms a company’s quoting, order processing, management and fulfillment operations into a convenient electronic ordering channel.
- CS Execute - CS-Execute streamlines information flow for customized product offerings—from order entry to engineering, to the ERP system and onto the factory floor.
- CS Publish - CS-Publish is a configurable, rule-based proposal document publishing solution that enables MTO/ETO manufacturers and business service providers to automatically create accurate and complete sales proposals, quotes and other key documents.
- CS Vue - CS-Vue is an advanced visualization and collaboration tool for creating and managing engineering diagrams, CAD drawings and other key documents in CTO applications.
- CS Connect - CS-Connect is the integration “wizard” within CS-Enterprise—a flexible, intelligent integration control system that simplifies bi-directional data formatting, data exchange and replication to support business processes and user objectives.
- CS Flow - CS-Flow automates a host of manufacturing workflow processes such as scheduling, process engineering, labor and resource allocation, material handling and other manufacturing operations.
- CS Remote - CS-Remote provides a stand-alone and disconnected configuration platform that enables your remote sales network or disconnected laptop/desktop computer users to operate independently from the host system so they can accurately price, quote and visualize custom products anywhere and anytime, and periodically send and receive updated information to and from the host.
New York, NY (PRWeb) January 11, 2007 -- ProTrak International announced the release of ProTrak Advantage CRM 4.5. Scheduled for release in early 2007, version 4.5 includes new features that greatly enhance the user's experience and overall functionality of ProTrak's out-of-the-box CRM solution for investment managers, funds-of-hedge funds, hedge funds and private equity firms. As usual, many of the new features are derived from suggestions of ProTrak's growing global user community. A major emphasis of ProTrak's development effort is the provision of additional "tools" that give users more control over their ProTrak desktop without requiring IT support. A few of the new enhancements included in version 4.5 are: • New user customization options that allow users to set different background colors for the main profile windows and each data "pane" for better readability, to hide or view individual columns in each data pane and to select different "themes" for the main profile screens. • Users may now attach Crystal reports, Excel reports and/or other external reports directly to the ProTrak main menu for instant one-click execution. • ProTrak administrators may now specify default values and/or calculated values for individual data fields. • In addition to ProTrak's comprehensive security controls, security - more available
Fremont, CA (PRWeb) January 11, 2007 -- Soffront® Software Inc., www.soffront.com, the leader of mid-market CRM software, today announced that Savaria Concord Lifts Inc., has implemented Soffront CRM as an on-demand application to automate sales and lead distribution to partners. Savaria Concord Lifts, one of North America's leading accessibility companies, provides home elevators, wheelchair lifts and stair chairs that facilitate mobility of people with special needs. Prior to Soffront, leads were manually downloaded from automatically generated .txt files into Microsoft Access and then distributed to the appropriate dealers. This process was highly inefficient and not feasible once the size of the company expanded. We needed a more efficient way to automatically manage leads from multiple web sites. "Savaria Corporation acquired Concord Elevator, Inc. in 2005, thereby doubling our business volume and the amount of leads we receive," explained Ian Clark, marketing manager, Savaria Concord Lift. "Prior to Soffront, leads were manually downloaded from automatically generated .txt files into Microsoft Access and then distributed to the appropriate dealers. This process was highly inefficient and not feasible once the size of the company expanded. We needed a more efficient way to automatically manage leads from multiple web sites." According to Clark, they - more available
Microsoft is giving some of its partners early access to the next major release of its CRM software, code-named “Titan”.By China MartensIDG News Service (Boston Bureau)Updated: Jan 11, 2007 04:24 PMMicrosoft Corp. is previewing the next major version of its Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) software, code-named "Titan," with a growing number of its partners in the run-up to the mid-2007 product release. Microsoft announced the move Wednesday. "We said last summer that Titan will be out in summer 2007 and it will," said Brad Wilson, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Titan, which will probably be officially known as Dynamics CRM 4.0 will be the first Microsoft CRM release based on a multitenant architecture and using a single code base to support three types of usage – on-premise, hosted by partners or Microsoft. The Microsoft-hosted offering will be called Dynamics Live CRM, the third member of the vendor's growing Live software-as-a-service (SAAS) product family, joining Windows Live and Office Live. Multitenancy is the ability of a SAAS vendor to host multiple customers' applications on a single server instead of dedicating servers to individual customers. Since multitenancy requires fewer servers, it's a cheaper way for vendors to run their hosting - more available
