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1 Customer Self Service for Configured Products Hank Canitz – Sr. Dir Industry Marketing Midwest User Group Meeting

2  Mass Production to Mass Customization  QAD Configurator  QAD Customer Success Story  Recommended Actions Midwest User Group Meeting

3 3  Lower prices  Higher quality  Faster delivery  Customized products Midwest User Group Meeting “Mass Customization Is (Finally) The Future Of Products” Forrester, April 15 2011

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6 6  The challenge – In a recent study more than 35% of consumers were interested in purchasing build-to-order products – A polarized economy will develop  The Impact – To meet CTO requirements manufacturers must adopt:  SC technologies that enable more efficient production  Customer-facing technologies, like order configurator  More effective management of engineering changes  More accurate new product demand projections Midwest User Group Meeting Commoditized Products High Value Offerings

7 7 Midwest User Group Meeting Variety Volume DesignPurchaseManufactureAssembleShip InventoryManufactureAssembleShip ManufactureInventoryAssembleShip ManufactureAssembleInventoryShip Delivery Lead Time Engineer-to-Order (ETO) Make-to-Order (MTO) Assemble-to-Order (ATO) Make-to-Stock (MTS) Configure-to- Order (CTO)

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9 9  A powerful application designed to simplify processing of configure-to-order products – Captures engineering knowledge – Guides through the selling process – Automatically generates work orders and routings Midwest User Group Meeting

10 10  Guided sales – Flexible questionnaire design – Powerful price calculations  Instant conversion of customer requirements into manufacturing requirements – Product configuration rules – Seamless integration Midwest User Group Meeting

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12 12  Integration with – Sales Quotations – Sales Orders – Items and Item-Site records – Product Structures – Routings – Costing – Pricing Midwest User Group Meeting

13 13  Configurator uses QAD Enterprise Applications language infrastructure  Available in all QAD core languages Midwest User Group Meeting 13

14 14  Meet customers’ specific requirements  Streamlined order and quotation process – Reduced error rates – Reduces lead time to fulfill orders  Bridge knowledge gap Midwest User Group Meeting

15 15  Forecast consumption for planning items  User defined warning messages  Enhanced for kits and links to sales quotes/ orders  New attribute creation rules  Integration with enhanced best pricing Midwest User Group Meeting

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17 17  Enhancement Release, March 2013 – Variant Item Master Comment creation – EMT support: Supplier Item creation – Cost Roll-up control flag in Configuration Rebuild – Usability and layout improvements in Questionnaire Midwest User Group Meeting

18 18  Creates master comments for configured item  Perfect to add configuration description and notes  Visible with item, sales order print, invoice print, et cetera  Can also be used to create comments in multiple languages Midwest User Group Meeting

19 EMT Process Supplier Item is the cross- reference to convert PBU SO/PO line items into SBU SO line items Master Comments can be used for Configuration Description Configuration Model One central model One Configurable Item Item Set up Configurator Variant Item-Site Records for both sites BOM/Routing Linked to item number Domain A PBU Entity SO Site SBU Entity Ship-From Site SO POPO VItem VBOM VRout. VItem Site VItem Site CItem COP PC Rules SC Rules Supp. Item Midwest User Group Meeting

20 20  Allows to rebuild configuration with or without a cost roll-up – A rebuild without cost roll-up is often done when cost are frozen for a certain period (typically a financial year), but the actual configuration changes within this period Midwest User Group Meeting

21 21  Less “white space”  Logical features display in one line  Browse shortcut Alt-B  Auto-complete feature/option search text  Visual separation header data, configuration description in browse  Hide tabs without feature Midwest User Group Meeting

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35 35 Midwest User Group Meeting ProcessBenefitValue Configure complex products based on pre-approved engineering and sales business rules Product personalization / customization by semi-skilled sales staff Reduce errors Reduce selling time Increase market share Improved sales productivity $000’s 50%-90% 5% to 10% 10% to 50% Rules automatically translate possible configurations into actual items, product structures and routings Lower costs Reduce errors Reduced product lead-time 5% to 25% $000’s 10% to 50% Rules based generation of variant item numbers enable re-order of configured items Increase customer satisfaction Increase market share 10% to 20% 5% to 10%

36 36  Determine the market for configured products in your industry…  Does your company have the desire and capability to design, manufacture, and sell configured products?  Build a business case to support getting into or improving your configured product capabilities through the use of the QAD Configurator. Midwest User Group Meeting

37 Schedule an on-site discovery / vision engagement to let QAD help you determine how to efficiently & effectively offer configured products. Midwest User Group Meeting 1 2 3 Discovery / Vision Engagement Rapid value assessment Map QAD potential solutions to business goals / strategies / tactics & processes Recommendations & ROI analysis of high potential areas Process QSCANs 4

38 Hank Canitz Senior Director Industry Marketing HCC@QAD.com Midwest User Group Meeting

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