Engineering Productivity & Sales Effectiveness

Invest in Tomorrow: How CLM Empowers Future-Ready Businesses

According to Gartner, “40% of Manufacturers will adopt CLM by 2026.” Many vendors have also adopted CLM or CLM-like concepts over the last year and CLM has now been recognized as a top 10 strategic technology for manufacturers. ​

Why is CLM so important? In an age of customization and personalization, it is no longer enough to manage the lifecycle of products; it is now critical to manage the lifecycle of product configurations offered and sold to customers. ​

In addition, manufacturers are facing increasing commercial and regulatory requirements, as well as opportunities made possible by new technologies like Digital Twins and Digital Threads. ​

This session will provide inspiration on how to get started with CLM as well as a preview of new capabilities that will make it easier to adopt CLM and enable powerful new capabilities.

From Design to Delivery: Increasing Productivity in Your Product Lifecycle Combining PLM with CLM

Join us for an insightful keynote featuring two distinguished speakers who will unpack the critical dynamics of today’s engineering landscape and the transformative role of Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM). ​

Florian Harzenetter, Global Advisor Industrials, Senior Director at PTC will delve into current market trends and business challenges for Engineering and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), exploring Digital Transformation and Digital Thread. Florian will discuss how PLM and CLM complement each other to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency.

Anders Rasmussen, Product Manager at Configit, will tackle the challenges engineers face amidst increasing product variability, shedding light on efficient configuration data management. Anders will outline how configurable BOMs, configuration rules, and a seamless collaboration of rules from Sales, Manufacturing, and Support can be unified within a framework. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the future of engineering excellence!

Florian Harzenetter

Anders S. Rasmussen

Empowering System Engineering with Configuration Lifecycle Management

The rise of customization and personalization across B2C and B2B markets is driving an explosion in product variants and configurations. This creates a critical challenge: effectively managing these variations throughout the entire manufacturing process to fulfill specific customer orders.​

For engineering departments, this means managing the lifecycle of product variants and configurations, especially in relation to change management. Concepts like modularization, product line engineering and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) are gaining traction, along with the recognition that product variant and configuration management that links engineering to manufacturing, sales and service is essential. ​

In this presentation, Henrik Hulgaard, Vice President of Product Management at Configit, will delve into how Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) can act as a cornerstone for implementing systems engineering concepts. By establishing a single source of truth for product configurations, CLM facilitates seamless information flow between engineering and other crucial departments across the entire value chain. ​​

From “Bring-your-own-C” to “Bring-your-own-Q”

Salesforce has provided a “Bring-your-own-C” API interface for many years, enabling customers to integrate more powerful product configuration management solutions, like Configit Ace®. ​

Configit customers have taken advantage of this capability to improve the configuration experience for their customers using Salesforce CPQ. ​

Now, Configit is extending this capability to offer a “Bring-your-own-Q” concept to our customers. Configit already supports Configit Quote and Salesforce CPQ but can now also support other CPQ solutions extending the power of Configit Ace and Virtual Tabulation to your end users. ​

In this session, Jens Ellebæk, Consulting Offerings Manager, Configit will explore various solutions Configit has delivered to customers that have improved the performance of Salesforce CPQ, as well as omni-channel sales cases where Configit Ace is the shared source of truth for multiple CPQ front ends from different vendors.

Migrating to SAP AVC? – An opportunity to Consider Alternatives

SAP recently introduced a new Advanced Variant Configuration (AVC) solution intended to replace SAP LO-VC used in SAP ECC. ​

As customers are planning their migration from SAP S4/HANA to SAP ECC, questions arise as to whether they should adopt AVC, continue to use LO-VC or look at alternatives. ​

In this session, Jesper Blak Møller, Director of System Architecture, will explore the differences between LO-VC and AVC highlighting the benefits and potential drawbacks. ​

Jesper will also introduce alternative solutions that will allow companies to continue using LO-VC and provide additional benefits that should be considered in migration planning. ​

Unlocking Tomorrow: Configit’s Vision for an Intelligent Future

In this presentation Configit CPTO, Damantha Boteju, will take a step into the future and unveil what the future of product configuration looks like. You’ll hear how different types of AI combined with CLM-as-a-Service will reshape how businesses manage product configuration data.

Gain insights into the agility, scalability, and efficiency of the Configit SaaS model, with a sneak peek into new services exclusively on our platform. The spotlight of the event is the Ace 7 release, showcasing cutting-edge features that mark a new era for configuration management.

Join us for this brief but impactful session that explores innovation, progress, and how products will be configured in the future. ​