Product configurator add-on
Manage a wide range of products – directly in unitop
Are you running a commercial or industrial operation and working with a wide variety of products? If so, the product configurator add-on is the right solution for you! Our add-on was designed to be used in conjunction with unitop Trade and unitop Industry. Its many useful functions mean you can configure and manage your product variants in a structured and regulated way directly within your ERP system.
Benefits
The benefits of the product configurator add-on for you
This add-on complements our unitop solutions for commercial and industrial companies by providing a fully integrated configuration process. With the add-on, you can reliably configure individual products directly from the sales document – in a way that is rules-based and seamless right through to production. With the product configurator add-on, free-standing solutions, dual data entry and discontinuities are a thing of the past. Here are all of the benefits at a glance:
Range of functions
How the add-on displays your variant logic from a technical perspective
Whether a simple parameter-based logic or a multi-stage variant logic is involved, the product configurator displays the entire configuration logic directly within your unitop interface – including a logic editor, template management and automated document output.
You define your product templates centrally and can re-use them if needed. You can use multiple versions of parameters to continue developing variants or can test out configurations immediately while production is under way. To obtain a more effective overview, groups of parameters can be created that enable complex products to be structured in a logical way.
With the integrated logic editor, you can put together complex bodies of rules governing permitted combinations, exclusions and calculations yourself. The decision logic can be combined with calculations, for example, to determine the suitable drive type according to the size of the product. Logics such as these can be stored directly in item lists, work plans and item data.
Modules can also be configured individually – including to enable the use of sub-items with a product template of their own. This enables you to display complex product structures dynamically and expand them in a flexible way.
To perform particularly complex calculations, you can incorporate external routines. Input and output parameters can be precisely defined, so that individual expansions can also be integrated smoothly by means of programmed functions.
Item texts can be generated automatically based on set parameters and directly incorporated into sales documents. This allows the features of variants to be displayed transparently and correctly on your quotations or invoices, without any manual alterations or editing being required.
Versions of parameters and product templates can be exported in no time and copied across into new customers or other systems. This not only makes initial commissioning smoother, but also the roll-out into additional areas of the company.
Practical examples
Our product configurator add-on in use
Whether it is used in production or in technical trade, our add-on comes into its own wherever a wide range of variants, precision and efficiency are required. The add-on is suitable in use scenarios including:
The product configurator add-on is successful and has already been in use at some of our customers’ premises for a number of years now. We will now briefly sketch how the solution supports the processes at Propain Bicycles.
Example
Propain Bicycles – Custom Bikes that are one of a kind
Propain also relies on unitop and the product configurator add-on:
Customers put together their bike online, including the gear system, spring travel or frame colour. The configuration selected is then automatically transferred to the ERP – consistently, error-free and in a fully digital way.
Contact
Looking to revitalise your production configuration processes and find out how our add-on will enable you to display complex variants reliably, efficiently and consistently? Get in touch with us – we’ll be pleased to advise you.
