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Frontier Configured Product Specification has been designed to
improve the efficiency, accuracy and visibility of the business
functions associated with the fulfillment of complex, customer
specified product lines. The functionality of this application
is built around a fully integrated, rules based Product Configurator.
In order to meet or exceed the customer’s expectations, a
Product Configurator needs to be much more than a quotation or
order entry tool. It needs to be the core of the business system,
accessing information from, or providing information to almost
every other department and function within the business operations.
The engineering, marketing and production logic that drives the
Configured Product Specification module is developed and maintained
within the Frontier Product Configuration Management (PCM) applications.
Frontier Configured Product Specification Supports:
- End user oriented product specification, consisting of pre-defined
product attributes, the definition of nonstandard choices,
along with full dimensional capabilities
- Engineering validation for individual attributes specified,
as well as final validation across the combination of all attributes
entered
- Integrated, customer specific pricing logic based on the product
attributes specified
- Real-time sourcing, lead time and order promising functionality
based on the product specification, customer, production
and inventory variables
- Logic based product descriptions to translate final product
specification into a standard description the customer can understand
- Automatic generation of scaled, attribute based drawings for
visual confirmation and communication
- Frontier Manufacturing integration to automatically drive replenishment
orders based on the final product specification and production
variables
- Frontier Financial integration to provide visibility of accurate
cost and margin information during the product specification
process
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