Configuration Control
Expandable CONFIGURATION CONTROL is used by companies who manufacture standard assemble-to-order products with customer-selected features and options. Configuration Control provides faster, mistake-proof quoting and order entry while eliminating the engineering overhead involved in maintaining hundreds or thousands of custom bills of material.
Configuration Control has standard and unique product configurations, allowing you to sum up the costs of their components, set configuration prices, review configuration gross margins and check availability of configuration options.
Features and options for a product are predefined, allowing sales representatives and customer service personnel to enter accurate, timely quotes and sales orders without the need for engineering to review each item.
Configuration Rules can be defined for including or excluding options based on other options selected for inclusion in a configuration. Each rule includes an Informational, Warning or Stop Message that is displayed when the rule is executed and an inclusion or exclusion exception is found.
MODULE FEATURES
Configuration Definition
- Construct standard product configurations
- Select from predefined features and options
- Copy and edit existing products
- Configure new products
- Product pricing and cost computed
- Review and edit configuration
- Review price and costing of configurations
- Integrated with sales order entry
- View and sell a standard product configuration
- Construct a saleable unique product configuration
- Option to display available to promise (ATP) at all levels
- Option to rollup standard cost for complete configuration
- Product price file interface
- Gross margin analysis
- Integrated user-defined comments on configuration
- Effectivity date control
- Configuration status codes
- Pre-release, approved, on hold or canceled
Reporting/Inquiries
- Feature/options
- Options where-used
- Product configurations
Approval Routings
- Based on organizational hierarchy
- Optional finance reviewer
- Optional project manager reviewer
- Requisitions are routed to the next level until an approver has the required level for the amount being requested
Rules Table
- Option ID
- Comparison Option
- Comparison Rule
- Exclude
- Include
- Include From List
- No Rule
- Message Type
- Stop
- Warning
- Inform
- Message Text
- User defined
Configuration Purge
Model/Features Definition
- User controlled display sequence
- Control minimum and/or maximum quantity requirements
- Effectivity date control
- Feature status codes
- Pre-release, approved, on hold or canceled
- Interface to parts master
- Interface to model and feature comments
Capability to Copy the Configuration to the Bill of Materials
Create Planning Bill for the Model/Option for MPS Planning Purposes
Feature/Options Definition
- User controlled display sequence
- Control minimum and/or maximum quantity requirements
- Effectivity date control
- Default option pricing
- Option type print control
- Print on sales order with price, with-out price or do not print
- Pick type options
- Define option at shipping or kitting (backflush)
- Kitting storeroom
- Deliver to operation when complete
- Scrap factor
- Lead time offset
- Option status
- Pre-release, approved, on hold or canceled
- Interface to parts master
- Option can be another configuration
- Interface to feature and option
- Comments file
Available to Promise
Real-time Integration
- Inventory Control
- Product Data Control
- Job Scheduling/Costing
- Master Scheduling
- Sales Order
- Foreign Currency