eSpline now offers a solution that has been missing from traditional configurator offerings.  This is a complementary solution with SAP
 

Just how do you know what features or characteristics are your best sellers?  How about a combination of features that make up your fastest selling products? 

Unless you have had what is typically an expensive combination of customized software and consulting performed on your product mix, you may know your top 5 selling options by themselves, but do you know what combination of features make up your best or worst sellers?   That depends upon how many options and products you sell.  Most companies don't know, let alone manage that on a day-to-day basis.  

Solving the product complexity problem before it is introduced to the supply chain is essential to improving manufacturing and supply chain performance.

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While companies try to grab market share with a continuously expanding list of configurations, they begin to see a disproportional increase in parts inventory to anticipate the non-standard configurations.

Ask yourself these questions:

1. Today, do you know your best selling options / features / characteristics?
2. Do you know by region which are your best selling product options?
3. Do you know your customers' option choices in a quote that differ in the final order? 
4. Are you trying to forecast what features/options/characteristics are your best sellers by country, by region, for your largest customers?
5. Can you readily identify your non-performing features?
6. Does your company know what combination of features/options/characteristics are your best sellers?
7. How long does it take to analyze all your product options?  Months?  Can't do it?
8. Is your last report of product options older than 6 months?  If it is, its probably useless.
9. Can you determine what are the most common combination of best selling features in quotes that  translate to an order?  Can you determine which features rarely translate to an order?
10. Can you manipulate your information and easily perform "what if's" to analyze different combinations of features?