Specifying complex products requires finding current product information, selecting from multiple options and then correctly conveying these selections in an order.

Documenting this process can be critical to ensuring that customers get the products they need.

Using CustomCommerce, your sales staff and customers can generate sales quotes, bills-of-materials, CAD models and on-demand product collateral.

CustomCommerce's product configurator can quickly generate order-ready quotes. The configurator can access the latest product and pricing information from ERP and other back-end systems to ensure quote accuracy.

Quotes can be customized to include your branding, customer information, images, and terms and conditions. CustomCommerce can then email quotes for approval or order processing.

To facilitate their distribution, quotes can be stored in online folders and made accessible to sales staff, distributors and customers. Multiple folders can be created to organize quotes and quote histories, e.g. by customer, project or date.

Sales reps and customers work with marketing product information when specifying products. Manufacturing groups work with engineering product information. Differences in this data can result in products being ordered that can't be built.

CustomCommerce can map sales system selections into an engineering bill-of-materials (BOM). Based on a customer's selections, CustomCommerce determines the exact components required for the product, generating a BOM file that can be passed directly to order entry and manufacturing systems.

For companies using e-procurement systems, TechniCon's E-Procurement Connector routes quotes and BOM files through the established requisition, approval and order processes.

Design engineers can spend 25-40% of their day searching for component parts to build into an assembly. Too much of this time is spent modeling the geometry of these parts when no or only generic CAD data is available.

For parts manufacturers, providing accurate CAD data makes it easy for customers to specify or "design in" their products early in the design process. According to an industry study, 80% of the parts originally designed into a product are later used in production.

CustomCommerce dynamically produces dimensionally-accurate 3D CAD models and 2D production drawings using customer-specified options, dimensions and CAD file formats.

To protect a company's intellectual property, a product's internal design content can be removed from its CAD model, leaving only the external geometric envelope.

CustomCommerce eliminates data conversion costs and delays by supporting a wide range of CAD formats. For users of Autodesk Inventor®, the product configurator can programmatically drive Inventor to generate accurate 3D CAD models on-the-fly.

CustomCommerce supports Autodesk's i-drop technology, allowing CAD data to be dragged and dropped directly from Web pages into desktop CAD sessions. Designers can drag your CAD models directly into their layout and specification systems.

As a central repository for your product marketing content, CustomCommerce simplifies online and print catalog production by allowing materials to be pulled from a single location. Custom print templates format repository data for publication.

Products can be organized in online folders to quickly generate custom cutsheets or mini-catalogs in PDF format. PDFs can be personalized for a customer and incorporate your branding.

Using CustomCommerce to create custom print documents whenever needed ("on-demand") ensures up-to-date document content and eliminates the need for large, costly print runs.