Variant management software
Suppliers are struggling with countless product variants to fulfil individual customer requirements. However, this diversity increases complexity and puts a strain on company resources. Efficient variant management with SAE software creates the optimum balance between differentiation and standardisation. The result: 100% overview, more efficiency and customer proximity.
Successful
variant management
thanks to SAE
Market success with sensible product diversity and manageable complexity
Mastering diversity
Full control over your product variety with reduced effort
Manage complexity
Analysing the market and products for the optimal balance between customer requirements and company goals
Increase product efficiency
Efficient management of your product diversity - rapid response to customer requirements and market changes
Increase process efficiency
Central management of all product data, for an optimised portfolio along the entire product life cycle
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Master complexity with our variant management software!
Easily master diversity with SAE variant management software
With the SAE variant management platform, you can master diversity. You have full control over all the details of your product strategy, reduce the administrative effort and decide for yourself how you want to integrate the system into your IT landscape and your business processes.
SAE variant management software is a solution that can work completely independently or be integrated into the existing system landscape. It has standard interfaces for the continuous transfer of relevant data (materials, configurations, prices, customers, customising) from a wide variety of applications and systems, such as ERP (e.g. ProAlpha, SAP R/3 & S/4HANA), PLM (e.g. SIEMENS Teamcenter), PIM, CAD, CRM and many more.
The platform enables the central management of all relevant data such as materials, configurations, prices, customers and customising information.
You retain full control over your product strategy and at the same time reduce the administrative workload.
The introduction of the SAE variant management software offers you a further decisive advantage: in the course of the system introduction/conversion, your employees and colleagues from product development, product management, sales and marketing prepare the data and thus create a new, organised basis for efficient variant management.
Focus on what can be sensibly realised
Variant management analyses the market, products and profitability in order to master complexity and enable both the optimisation of existing processes and future-oriented product planning.
Variant management analyses the market, products and profitability in order to find the optimum balance between customer requirements, product diversity and corporate goals.
Market trends, successful products and uneconomical offerings are identified:
What are the market trends?
How are products and product variants gaining acceptance on local, national and international markets?
Which products and product variants are selling profitably?
Which products and offerings are uneconomical?
On the one hand, the findings are used to optimise procurement, production and sales. On the other hand, the findings form a reliable basis for future-oriented product planning and positioning on the market.
The focus is on sensibly realisable solutions that sustainably support the company's success. The benchmark for current and forward-looking developments is always what can be sensibly realised and not what is arbitrarily feasible.
Increase your responsiveness with digital variant management
The digitalisation of variant management with the SAE software enables you to react flexibly to customer requirements and market changes and to plan your product range with an eye to the future.
Because product design and variability strategies have a decisive influence on the market success of your company now and in the future, the timely and comprehensive digitalisation of variant management plays an important role.
SAE software for variant management provides you with an integrated platform that optimally supports you in the consistent management of products, product variants and variant combinations.
Customer centricity: Increased responsiveness to rising customer demands.
Flexibility: Increased resilience to market changes.
Future-orientation: Support for forward-looking planning and development of the product range.
From start to finish: product life cycle management with SAE
The SAE software enables the seamless integration of existing data, creates a central knowledge repository ("single point of truth") and offers comprehensive functions for analysing, optimising and managing the entire product life cycle.
The platform can be integrated into existing IT systems (ERP, PLM, CAD, etc.) and enables existing data to be imported.
Product and configuration knowledge is stored centrally and redundancy-free and is available to all areas (development, production, sales).
Identification of successful and less successful products ("tops and flops").
Analysis, removal or reorganisation of inefficient variants.
Intuitive maintenance of dependencies and compatibility data.
Management of different price categories, currencies and country-specific variants.
Support throughout the entire product life cycle.
Variant management - a strategic decision
Variant management in manufacturing companies is often still informal and inefficient, mainly based on experience and Excel lists. This is becoming problematic due to increasing customer requirements and market dynamics, as this system is neither scalable nor flexible and knowledge transfer is difficult.
Mastering complexity: Simple, fast, structured
With the SAE variant management platform, you also create the basis for the SAE CPQ software in your company
, including the
SAE 3D product configurator.
This allows you to realise an integrative solution that not only optimally supports your internally responsible employees, but also your global sales teams. Offering and selling complex products has never been so easy. Embedded in the website as a product finder, interested parties and customers can find out about your products in a targeted and autonomous manner and initiate a request for quotation on their own initiative. Inspire your prospects and customers with an end-to-end digital and convincing customer journey.
