Scenario 2 : ERP-Integrated Configurator

Organisation Profile:

• Medium/ large engineering Equipments Manufacturer
• Dealers / branches / sales persons at various locations
• ERP system for sales enquiry management

Application needs:

• Highly technical product selection and configuration
• Need to submit GA layouts, BOMs, along with proposals
• ERP sales enquiry details to be used to create 3D rendered image of product layout for customer to get visual feel of the installation.

Challenges:

• Complex look-up tables to select the sizes and shapes of accessories & mounting details.
• Large number of parameters for layout models & drawings.
• Integration with SQL based ERP systems.

Benefits:

• Design / Engineering team is free from layout creation
• Better visualization because of to-the-scale and rendered images of layout.
• Selection logic properly documented and automatically available.