Introducing C2O - Solutions beyond engineer to order
ETO has been characterized by challenges like long lead-times and effort- intensive processes that lead to lower productivity and efficiencies and have traditionally hindered business growth.
Most engineer-to-order companies have a reputation of innovative and feature-rich offerings but also being expensive. In today's global, highly competitive marketplace, customers are demanding innovative and feature-rich offerings but at a lower cost. That's where C2O comes in.
C2O represents the next level of delivering ETO solutions for manufacturing. It allows the manufacturer or the customer to select a base product and configure all the variable parameters associated with that product in a rule-based manner thereby freeing up valuable engineering bandwidth for core R&D activities and also reducing sales effort and delays significantly.
C2O solutions are intended to help manufacturing companies leverage technology to meet the dynamically changing requirements of their customers. C2O seamlessly integrates best of breed product configurators, engineering configurators and sales configurators into a single scalable solution that runs from back-end processes like engineering design to customer-facing e-commerce offerings.
Leveraging its experience and expertise in the manufacturing domain since 1994, Barry Wehmiller and power2 are best positioned to offer C2O solutions, to address the needs of the global manufacturers. Developing solutions from a holistic business enablement perspective has always been a differentiator of these solutions. C2O is a highly specialized business solution that helps discrete manufacturers look beyond ETO. It addresses critical engineering lifecycle challenges for manufacturers by:
* Streamlining business and engineering processes
* Helping companies move towards component standardization
* Automating repetitive tasks
* Allowing engineers and others to work on higher-level priorities
Business benefits of C2O
C2O offers tangible business benefits to ETO organizations that include:
Facilitates flexible engineering
* Build drawings and CAD models dynamically based on the configured design option.
* Reduce complexity of the engineering process through automation
Improved customer delight
* Greater customer involvement in the design process
* Highly scalable and flexible solutions that meet specific customer requirements and deliver a competitive edge
Streamlined processes
* Improved overall efficiency and increased manufacturing lead times.
* Reduce quote-to-cash cycle by over 50%.
* Use of customizable predefined designs/quotes helps reduce considerable redundant effort and time.
* Automation of error prone repetitive tasks
* Quick turnaround of quotes for multiple product lines
* Standardized order processing
Optimal resource utilization
* Proposal generation with minimal engineering intervention
* Make the engineering and sales teams more productive by focusing on their core
