Effective Selling Solutions That Give Your Business a Competitive Edge
Our research has shown contract manufacturers typically lose bids to OEM's for reasons that can be prevented. Here are a few:
- The quote is not intuitive and easy to follow. Typically an OEM reviews multiple bids for a job. If one bid is readable and one is not, chances are the OEM will take a closer look at the more readable bid.
- The bid takes too long to compile and get to the OEM. If an OEM is on a strict timeline they may not wait an extra week for a contract manufacturer’s bid.
Streamline Your Operations
Do your front office systems and back office systems share information? If not, then you know how error prone and time consuming it is to track the same information in multiple places. We have experience in building custom systems that handle the initial bid process all the way through final product delivery.
What We Can Offer Your Business
We provide systems that can improve your win ratio, reduce operating costs, and eliminate redundant business processes. Don’t pay for software that tells your company how to run, let us develop software that fits the way YOU do business. We can develop a custom system that can encompass any or all of the following:
Product Configurator
- Enter customer requirements and have the system generate the products and services requested
- Prevent errors in estimates, quotations, work orders, bill of materials, and routing
- Reduce the involvement of product experts
- Guarantee your customers are getting exactly what they need
- Work with us to setup your own custom defined rules
Estimating and Quoting
- Give your sales force a tool to turn quotes around quickly
- Provide you customers with a readable, standardized quote
- Revise and keep a detailed change history of estimates and quotes
- Automate the generation of quote specific documents
- Offer customer specific pricing
- Customize payment schedules
- Setup discount limits each sales person can quote
- Achieve consistency across all of your estimates and quotes
- Store all estimates, quotes, and customers in one central database
Job Scheduling
- Schedule the processes and staff that would be required when a bid is won
- See all jobs and resource scheduling on a single screen
- Eliminate double booking of resources
Generate Needed Documents to Fulfill a Quote and Track the Accuracy of Quotes
- Automate the generation of a Bill of Materials and Work Order by using information from the quote
- Enter actual materials and services rendered for jobs and compare to the materials and services quoted
- Determine which staff members are generating accurate quotes
- Discover the job types and materials that are inaccurately quoted
Automate Billing of Jobs
- Obtain automatic billing reminders based off payment schedules setup on quotes
- Generate invoices directly from quote information
Management Reporting
- Generate management reports for more informed decision making
- Report on information only possible with a central system
- Provide information for accurate forecasting