Software for Manufacturers

When you make it easier for your engineers to specify your products, you increase your sales. Brands specified by the engineer at design-time have more than an 80% chance of capturing the job. We develop product selection programs to help sales reps and engineers select your products as basis of design. We also develop integrations for CAD and other third-party applications.

Selecting the right product for an application requires special training, knowledge, and tools. Our AlphaCPQ software allows customers to find the right product model for their application reducing training costs. Select products by techniques: application, performance, feature-based, and drill-down. Any of these techniques can be used individually or in combination to assist in finding the right products. Once the user pares the list down to only a few products, attributes can be compared to select the best product for the job.

Once a product has been selected and configured, pricing and discounts need to be applied so the user can quote the product to the customer. No matter how complicated your pricing and discounting rules are, AlphaCPQ comes with a advanced rules-based configurator that can handle simple price table lookups to the most complex pricing and discount rules you can imagine – all while making it easy for the customer to select their options and see the price.

Configuration is the process of choosing which options are needed for the selected product based on the job requirements. The manufacturers we work with produce very complex products, so their configurators need to handle a large set of complex rules. These rules can slow down your configurator. We know how to build a maintenance system to ensure high performance and keep configuration as simple as possible. Our designs ensure the user has a fast and easy configuration experience.

The AlphaCPQ software has features to add line items to a quote organized the way the sales rep wants. Multiple quotes can be saved to a project to further organize the quoting process.

Once a quote is accepted, the specification documentation must be compiled into a submittal package for review by engineers and architects. For complex jobs, these packages can reach hundreds of pages, traditionally requiring hours of manual searching and copying from product catalogs. We automate this process, allowing you to generate comprehensive, professional submittal packages with just a few clicks. This ensures accuracy and specification alignment while saving significant time, money, and paper.

The transition from an accepted submittal to a production-ready order is often where manual errors occur. Our solutions streamline this phase by automatically converting finalized quotes into active orders within your ERP or accounting system, eliminating the need for tedious re-entry. By ensuring that every configuration detail, discount rule, and technical requirement is transferred accurately, we reduce the risk of fulfillment errors and significantly accelerate your order-to-delivery cycle.

Providing customers with a self-service option for checking their order status can simplify and improve your customer service. A well-designed customer service portal allows customers to check their orders 24×7 without having to call into your customer service department. This sets you apart from your competition.

Once the product is delivered and invoices are paid, someone has to determine how to pay commissions to all of the sales personnel at the distributor and the manufacturer. This can be a very complicated process. We have developed custom commission tracking software that can simplify the process. PhaseAlpha can help your business save money, reduce errors, and increase efficiency. Contact us now to learn more.