Validate and Align Engineering Data Across PLM, ERP, and CPQ
Ensure customizable product data is valid and aligned across enterprise systems to prevent errors, delays, and production disruption.
By establishing this foundation, Configit enables manufacturers to:
✓ Achieve up to 92% faster time to market for configurable products
✓ Eliminate orders that cannot be fulfilled and improve delivery reliability
✓ Remove downstream configuration errors and reduce operational risk
Overview
What You Achieve with Validated, Aligned Data
Business Outcomes
Outcomes from Validated and Aligned Configuration Data
Faster time to market
for configurable products
Fewer resources with
faster product variant introduction
Orders that cannot
be delivered
Product configurations
and downstream errors
The Challenge
Key Challenges in Managing Customizable Product Data at Scale
Not Scalable Validation
Configuration models and 150% BOMs create massive numbers of possible product combinations. Manual testing cannot reliably verify them, allowing rule conflicts and errors to surface later in quoting, ordering, or production.
Manual Data Alignment Across Systems
Configuration data often lives across PLM, ERP, and CPQ in different formats. Teams must reconcile and interpret this data manually, introducing delays, misinterpretations, and errors that can disrupt production or lead to incorrect orders.
Limited Visibility Into What Is Offered and Sold
Without end-to-end insight into available, orderable, and sold configurations, manufacturers struggle to optimize their product portfolio. Options may never be offered or rarely purchased, creating unnecessary complexity, wasted engineering effort, and lost revenue opportunities.
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Address the Most Critical Business Capability First
Challenge
Large manufacturers often have multiple PLM, ERP and sales systems with duplication, gaps, and errors that are difficult to identify and fix.
Solution
Configit Ace® consolidates and validates configurable product options and rules from multiple existing systems.
Impact
Reduce the number of PLM, ERP and CRM/CPQ instances and associated maintenance cost while minimizing cross-system errors.
Challenge
Validating and aligning that product models operate correctly is a difficult manual process today, with risk of errors.
Solution
Configit Ace® ensures reliable data by aligning engineering configurable options and rules with the rest of the enterprise.
Impact
Identify issues during design and avoid costs related to errors found after release which can cost 100 times more to fix.
Challenge
Product configuration is performed at every step of the manufacturing process but in different systems and formats that need to be manually interpreted.
Solution
Configit Ace® establishes a common shared source of truth accessible to all to automate end-to-end configuration of technical and non-technical options and rules.
Impact
95% reduction in product modeling time.
Challenge
Lack of end-to-end insight into available, orderable and sold product variants and configurable options makes it difficult to optimize products.
Solution
Analyze what is offered vs what is sold, delivered and serviced to identify high-runners, low-runners, and variants/options to remove with Configit Ace®.
Impact
Save inventory costs for options not sold, and increase utilization of product features.
Challenge
Within engineering and across manufacturing departments, multiple processes, systems, formats and cultures impede collaboration.
Solution
Configit Ace® creates a common shared product model and the format makes it easier to communicate and collaborate on new product capabilities.
Impact
Engineers work with outdated data 28% of the time leading to 60% more design rework and 59% missed deadlines.
Ready to Address These Challenges?
Our Approach
Ensure Product Data Integrity Across the Enterprise With Configit
Configit ensures configuration integrity across the enterprise by using its Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) approach to create a shared, governed source of configuration logic across PLM, ERP, and CPQ.
Powered by Configit Ace® and Virtual Tabulation® technology, it can validate complex product configurations to ensure that every configuration is accurate and buildable before it reaches sales, operations, or production.
Customer Story
Philips Created a Shared Source of Truth for Product Data Across Systems
By using Configit Ace® as a centralized product configuration foundation, Philips aligned product data across tools and channels, reduced duplication, and enabled faster, more accurate configuration and ordering.
With Configit Ace®, we are now able to guarantee that we have one shared source of truth. Our product management organizations can now manage the complete catalog in a single tool.
Peter van Meurs, Product Owner, CfLM Configit, Philips
Reduction in Time
to create an order acknowledgement
Reduction in Time
to create
a configuration
Implementation
Start Small.
Scale Across the Enterprise.
No matter your specific challenge or focus, we recommend an agile, iterative approach that starts with addressing specific challenges that can deliver value quickly.
We then build on this foundation to extend the scope and value that a CLM approach delivers.
Talk to an Expert
We’ll review your system landscape, identify the highest-impact challenge to address first, and outline the fastest path to measurable value.