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Scheidt & Bachmann, a global player in automated parking complexes, have signed on Camos to provide them with product configuration, quote generation and order processing.  Integrated to their product planning system, Scheidt & Bachmann is expecting to see benefits rolling out their new configurator.

The tight integration between their ordering and product planning allows headquarters and its 70 regional subsidiaries and associate access all product variations available and any one time and make last minute changes without any additional financial burdens for themselves or their customes.

Samuel Spaltner:

“The project makes an enormous leap forward towards communicating the detailed knowledge of our product range throughout the entire concern and to our associated companies at a uniform high standard. In addition to that, our customers appreciate enormously that we can react swiftly to their needs, yet still deliver the desired solutions in technically perfect form.

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Multivac, a manufacturer of packing machines, announced on 01.02.2010, that they will be using camos product configurators to improve their sales process.  In the past, the quotation process would take many hours, which they have now shortened to thirty minutes by using rules based configurators.

The VDMA report provides nice insight into this product configurator project, but the pdf, a scanned document provided on the camos site, is in German and pretty grainy.

Multivac sees the benefits provide by product configurators as being:

1. a centrally managed sales support tool which eliminates multiple regionally developed tools circulating in its sales regions,
2. eliminates media breaks in the delivery of product configurations, thereby eliminating or reducing human error,
3. direct entry of product configurator output into their ERP system,
4. supports training of sales staff during new product launches and new hirings.

On the VDMA booth, camos will be presenting its software for variant management focussing on sales and order processing. New features of camos Develop and camos Quotation for product configuration and tendering will be highlighted.

Hannover Messe is running April 19 -23, 2010. camos is presently scheduled to be in Hall 17 and the VDMA, Hall 16.

The VDMA is holding an event regarding variant management on March 16th, 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany.

A customer of camos will report about the implementation and the benefits of the product configurator camos Configurator for the daily variant management of complex products.

Target group for this event are primarily decision makers, department and project manager working within IT, Marketing and Sales and managing directors of the industrial goods industry.

I took this event from the camos events page.  The VDMA event search engine returns no results.  If you are interested contact the VDMA in Frankfurt

VDMA Headquarters

Lyoner Strasse 18
D-60528 Frankfurt
Phone +49 69 66 03-0

or camos.

camos Software und Beratung GmbH has introduced a new automated product configurator testing application aptly named camos.TestCenter.  According to camos, customer-specific product configurators can now be tested very easily, and include plausibility checks of product configuration, quotation management and price calculations.

Their press release from July

camos met with 130 of its customers for two days in Pforzheim, Germany.  Here participants shared their experiences with product configuration and the importance of knowledge based engineering.

Find out more at: http://bit.ly/CAMOS_Product_Configurator_Conference