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Tacton Configurator streamlines the quotation process for Metso Lindemann
Metso Lindemann applies the capabilities of a leading configuration system to the process of business quote generation. The result: faster, more accurate customer quotations that don't need to be generated at the company's head office.
Stockholm, Sweden - February 19, 2007 – Tacton Systems, a global vendor of configuration software, announced today that Metso Lindemann GmbH has implemented the Tacton Configurator to support its sales force and streamline the process of generating quotes.
Metso Lindemann is a leading manufacturer and supplier of machines and plants for the recycling of metal scrap and residual materials. The company's technological capabilities can be found in a wide range of solutions for shredding, shearing and baling of scrap metals and residual materials. For example, it has delivered around 30% of all the large auto body shredder plants around the world.
The company will use the Tacton technology to support its sales force in creating accurate and rapid quotations while reducing the present-day load on its back office. The new package will enable the sales force to work directly with the Sales Configurator, no matter where they are in the world. Sales staff will be able to access the system through a web browser to open the quote with either Acrobat Reader or Word.
With Tacton Configurator, technical engineering knowledge is made available to sales – reducing the need for technical sales support and empowering the sales force to configure optimal solution for the customer’s need.
"The big benefit for Metso Lindemann is the worldwide quoting capability that the new applications will bring," said Olaf Thyssen, IT Manager at Metso Lindemann in Düsseldorf, Germany. "It will reduce the time spent in compiling quotations, while ensuring their accuracy."
For more information, contact:
Tacton Systems
Christer Wallberg, CEO
Telephone: +46 8 690 07 50
Cell: +46 730 32 49 70
E-mail: christer.wallberg@tacton.com
Metso Lindemann
Olaf Thyssen, IT Manager
Telephone: +49 211 21050
E-mail: olaf.thyssen@metso.com
About Tacton Systems
Tacton is a global vendor of sales configuration software and services, with channel partners around the world. Tacton Configurator Solution enables effective selling of customized products whether online or from a PC at the point of sale. Tacton Configurator can be tightly integrated with any existing system and has standard integrations with leading e-Commerce, ERP, CRM, PLM and CAD systems. Tacton's solutions are used by customers including GE Healthcare, Ericsson, ABB, Black Box, Pentair Water, Hoffman Enclosures, Mod-Pac, FläktWoods and Albany Door Systems. For more information: http://www.tacton.com
About Metso Lindemann
Metso Lindemann GmbH, the metal recycling unit of Metso Minerals, is part of the Metso Corporation, an international technology company that serves customers in the pulp and paper industry, rock and minerals processing, power generation and other selected industrial sectors.
Metso Lindemann maintains its own sales and service companies and well-established agencies in more than 100 countries around the world. Some 500 staff are engaged in Metso's metal recycling business worldwide, the majority being employed by Metso Lindemann in Düsseldorf, Germany, the heart of Metso Minerals recycling Business Line. For more information: http://www.metso.com