Category: Insights

For many manufacturers, it is a challenge to create quotations given the amount of time and effort it takes to manage complex product configuration processes.

The issue is to increase the volume of quotes, streamline the process and manage the complexity of sales quoting, customer service and production processes.

What’s the secret to driving operational efficiencies, especially in the face of volatile markets, strict customer requirements and increasing competition?

View an on demand webinar session which outlines the challenges manufacturing plants face including underutilized assets, maintenance downtime, material and labor shortages.

Food and beverage processors face significant disruptions with changing consumer demand, growing complexity in supply chains, and ever stringent food safety mandates.

Today’s food and beverage processor must implement the appropriate processes and systems that not only manage recalls, reporting and document control, but also offer the flexibility to respond to changing regulatory requirements.

Business-to-business buyers now expect the same experience available to business-to-consumer buyers, favoring a “self-serve model” of fast, accurate online purchasing platforms instead of legacy models of past decades.

No longer do industrial buyers wish to interact with sales reps in person, on the phone or via e-mail. Nor do industrial buyers wish to pour over paper catalogs or other manually-intensive and time-consuming processes.