Product Configurator for ACCPAC

ACCPAC Product Configurator

Are you a manufacturing company using ACCPAC Accounting Software? Do you sell products with sizes, choices and options? The Product Configurator for ACCPAC is designed for industries with complex order entry requirements. Employees can easily enter specific customer options using unique product configurations. You can easily configure complex products and services with a guided selling tool to determine which products best fit your customers' needs.

Do you have thousands of product options? How about front line employees that have varying levels of product knowledge? This can lead to order entry errors, costly credit notes and unhappy customers. Are pricing rules inconsistently applied? Does engineering have to get involved in routine sales? If so, we can help you.

The Seradex ACCPAC Product Configurator lets customers, engineers, salespeople, customers, and dealers recommend solutions, configure complex products and automate pricing, costing and commission calculations. You can produce tailored quotations and automatically create bills of material for every order.

- Handle options or dimensions
- Reduce order entry time and errors
- Eliminate bill of material maintenance
- Integrated quotation management
- Eliminate "non-buildable" orders
- Reduce returns and credit notes


ACCPAC Product Configurator Overview

Do you sell products that have dimensions (Doors, Windows, Furniture, Glass, Mirrors, Lumber etc.)? Do your products have multiple options, dimensions, colors, accessories or materials? In your "Make to Order" business, mistakes in order entry can be costly customers get annoyed and scrap and rework is generated. How often does an order get "ping ponged" between the customer, dealer, order entry and manufacturing? Are you creating thousands or part numbers and bills of material?

If this sounds familiar its time to re engineer order processing with the Seradex Product Configurator. This product works with the Sales Order Management Module. Every information system should start with the most important part of your business - your customer. What impacts customer service more than order processing?


Seradex Product Configurator for ACCPAC:

• Quick and accurate order entry for configurable products with choices, options, dimensions
• Automatically configure a parametric bill of materials
• Eliminate "non-buildable" orders
• "One Button" Quote to Order conversions
• Price lists can handle multi-currency and customer discounts
• Reduce returns and credit notes
• Integrated with Microsoft Office, Excel, Word and Outlook
• Integrates with Purchasing, Inventory and Production Scheduling
• Credit limit management
• Supports multiple invoices per order
• Prevents incomplete orders from being sent to production
• Handles multiple Ship-To Addresses
• Generate Crystal Reports for order confirmations, invoices, credit notes
• Report formats can be customized
• Sales tax management and calculations
• Generate dimensioned drawings automatically from AutoCad
• Instant pricing of product by customer including applicable discounts
• Store images of products and options
• Create parametric rule based configured and costed bills of material

The configurator is completely integrated to ACCPAC financial accounting modules. You can easily set up configurator rules. Unlike most competing products, complex rules can be defined for product options without any software programming. This software can support an unlimited number of interrelated options, rules and constraints. Quotes and Orders can easily be customized to include customer defaults, CAD Drawings, pricing discounts as well as terms and conditions. Quotes can be immediately e-mailed for fast approval.

Simplicity

For complex products, a configurator must be able to support thousands of options, rules and constraints. The ability to easily setup and manage your configuration rules is one of our products strengths. Seradex OrderStream makes configurator setup as easy as point and click. If/Then rules can be defined for product choices.