Creating a unique eCommerce journey starts with appealing product visualizations
While we continue to learn how to work in the new normal one thing is certain for manufacturers. Change is a constant and leveraging the right technology is crucial to improving operational efficiency and improving the customer experience.
The solution that many manufacturers are missing their product portfolio is Visual Configuration. It is a necessity for manufacturers looking to grow their business and enable customers to do more. Offering visual product configuration will help you stay ahead of the competition by becoming a market leader with a one-of-a-kind customer experience.
In this guide we’ll discuss the basics of Visual Configuration, challenges, opportunities, and more:
What’s in the eBook?
A deep dive into the visual asset creation process
Using visualization embedded in the portal to create a wow factor for customers
How CPQ and Visualization work bi-directionally for the best results
Sell industrial goods online? No problem as long as spare parts and consumables are the only products involved. But e-commerce for customer-specific, tailor-made products, that’s a different story. For a long time manufacturers have struggled to provide an easy and streamlined online selling process.
Today, customers also expect a shopping experience that is not fundamentally different from what they are used to privately in the B2C sector. Therefore, it is high time to update outdated sales models to the latest digital standards!
Find out in the webinar how you can sell highly configurable products in a customer-friendly and efficient manner online and how you can convince and win over self-service-oriented B2B buyers.
Creating customer self-service portals for manufacturing is the first step to a seamless end-to-end customer journey
Manufacturing is rapidly changing, customers want B2C like experiences when they are purchasing highly configurable manufacturing products.
But doing that has never been a simple task, with self-service portals for manufacturers powered by Configure, Price, Quote solutions it can become a fast, exciting way to sell.
Learn how CPQ, visualization and customer self-service portals for manufacturers enable customers to configure their products from anywhere, and with 100% accuracy.
What’s in the eBook?
How to optimize customer self-service portals with CPQ
Using visualization embedded in the portal to create a wow factor for customers
Visual analytics, configuration, guided selling, price optimization and more!
The plugin for business value enhancement in product configuration analytics
Our Partner BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy with European roots and a global reach. They recently put together a comprehensive eBook on Product Configuration analytics.
Data-driven solutions have taken many business processes onto the next digital level. Big data analytics enables predictions into the near future and serves as a central strategy lever. However, looking at product sales processes and product management, companies do not recognize the power hidden in their data.
Especially in product configuration-based scenarios, only 25 percent of enterprises use their data for advanced analysis. Despite the increasing overall importance of product configuration, companies miss out on high potentials to innovate their processes using advanced data insight technologies.
What’s in the product configuration analytics eBook?
Fitting CPQ into Your System Architecture is the first step to a truly digital manufacturing operation
Creating a harmonious landscape is easier said than done. Without proper thought about how the pieces fit together adopting CPQ tools can become a fools’ errand. That’s why defining how each piece of the landscape puzzle will fit together can give answers to use which product and when. When implemented in your tech stack, CPQ provides the single source of data truth for the entire organization to operate on, regardless of the system they use.
While CPQ is the foundational component for manufacturers to sell configurable products, it’s the integrations into the front and back-office systems that truly enable operational efficiency and a seamless customer experience. Fitting CPQ into your system architecture can reduce operational inefficiencies.
What’s in the eBook?
Learn how manufacturers are utilizing CPQ to connect with CRM, ERP, CAD, and even eCommerce solutions for a fully integrated customer experience.
Sub-workflow solutioning with CPQ
Integrations with Salesforce, Dynamics, SAP VC, and more
Manufacturers have long struggled with inefficient processes and poor customer service. Many have found that using a quote to cash solution has enabled them to move faster, sell better and become more customer-centric.
But the competition is quickly catching up to these solutions. That’s why many have began looking for solutions that go beyond quote to cash. Such as Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) by Tacton.
In addition to CPQ, your teams can enable cutting-edge Visual Configuration, integrations, analytics,and omnichannel experience for your customers.
Learn more in our guide to CPQ!
What’s in the Go Beyond Quote to Cash eBook?
Learn how CPQ can help manufacturers give an optimal solution every time while also enabling customers to work on their own time.
How using stunning visualizations can let you showcase highly-customizable manufacturing products fast and accurately
How Tacton is helping customers like Siemens and Swisslog define the future of manufacturing.
Industrial manufacturing can encompass a wide array of products, from robotics to material processing. Many of these manufacturers have struggled with slow quoting, product misconfiguration and much more that cost time and money. Searching for new solutions can lead to a digital transformation and a distinct competitive advantage.
Tacton Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software can make all the difference in streamlining internal processes while enabling an omnichannel customer experience
In addition to CPQ, your teams can enable cutting edge Visual Configuration that show products in real-time in their actual environment.
What’s in the CPQ Guide for Industrial Manufacturing?
Learn how CPQ can help manufacturers use guided selling to make their newest sales team members sell faster than ever.
Discover how CPQ enables the optimal product solution, the first time, every time.
Use Visual Configuration to cut down on costly mistakes and misconfigurations.
Streamlining the selling process of dosing, mixing, filtering, controlling, setting or regulating equipment is what many Fluid and Gas control system manufacturers are trying to do to keep up with new buyer expectations. Many have searched for new solutions that enable fast quoting, manufacturing and selling.
Tacton Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software can make all the difference in streamlining internal processes while enabling an omnichannel customer experience
In addition to CPQ, your teams can enable cutting edge Visual Configuration that show products in real-time in their actual environment.
What’s in the CPQ Guide for Fluid Control Systems?
Learn how CPQ can help manufacturers use guided selling to make their newest sales team members sell faster than ever.
Discover how CPQ enables the optimal product solution, the first time, every time.
Use Visual Configuration to cut down on costly mistakes and misconfigurations.
Selling Packaging and Production Line equipment is no easy feat. The equipment is complex with hundreds of configurable options and parameters. Machine or packaging solutions need to interface with a production line and work within a defined space.
The knowledge required to configure the desired product for a customer is immense, and sales-people often have difficulty knowing how to address customer needs and position the best solution.
Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software can make all the difference in streamlining internal processes while enabling an omnichannel customer experience
In addition to CPQ, your teams can enable cutting edge Visual Configuration that show products in real-time in their actual environment. Even showing how different legal and safety standards can shape a product.
What’s in the CPQ Guide for Packaging and Production Lines?
Learn how CPQ can help Packaging and Production line manufacturers use guided selling to make their newest sales team members sell faster than ever.
Discover how CPQ enables the optimal product solution, the first time, every time.
Use Visual Configuration to cut down on costly mistakes and misconfigurations.
When it comes to Power Generation manufacturing no two customers are the same. Energy and power generation equipment manufacturers face numerous product, industry and customer challenges. These challenges lead to quoting errors, losing customers and wasting time. All of these issues can be addressed with the latest from Tacton.
Tacton Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software can handle all of these challenges by streamlining sales processes and enabling a unique omnichannel buying and selling experience.
In addition to CPQ, your teams can enable cutting edge Visual Configuration that show products in real-time in their actual environment.
What’s in the CPQ Guide for Power Generation?
Learn how CPQ can help Power Generation manufacturers use guided selling to make their newest sales team members sell faster than ever.
Discover how CPQ enables the optimal product solution, the first time, every time.
Use Visual Configuration to cut down on costly mistakes and misconfigurations.
