Basics
What CPQ is, how it fits the way you make things, and why a quote takes so much time.
- What is CPQ?CPQ stands for configure, price, quote: putting a product together, giving it a price and turning it into a quote. A short explanation of CPQ software.
- CPQ vs spreadsheets: when your Excel quoting tool runs outQuoting in Excel works for years in many factories. The signs it has hit its limit, the rules only one person knows, and the step between Excel and CPQ.
- Faster quoting in manufacturing: where quote turnaround time goesQuotes in manufacturing often sit and wait: for engineering, drawings, costing and approval. What research shows, and what you can turn into rules.
- ETO, CTO, MTO, ATO and MTS explained: what they mean for quotingEngineer to order vs configure to order, make to order, assemble to order and make to stock: the differences in plain English, and what each means for a quote.
- Variant management and modular design for a growing product rangeWhy variants multiply, what mass customization and modular product design mean in manufacturing, and how a BOM, rules and a configurator keep your range under control.
Every line on the quote counts.
A quote is the sum of all your choices. If you know which choices are in it, you also know where the total comes from.
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