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  • Streamline quoting and selling of products and services
  • Boost engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing efficiency
  • Respond quickly to changes across your network
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Solutions for Industrial Machinery and Components

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  • Solution and Performance Selling

    Create quotations and performance-based contracts with our industrial machinery solutions. And, take care of equipment and tool management at the same time.

    • Increase profits by improving RFQ/RFP processes, margin management, and demand generation
    • Improve customer service with world-class interaction center management
    • Simplify marketing activities with superior resource management and target marketing
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  • Integrated Product Development

    Discover why innovation is one of the most important topics for industrial machinery and components companies.

    • Collaborate efficiently in early design phases to handle complex product structures
    • Synchronize engineering, manufacturing, and service bills of materials to improve efficiency and communication
    • Increase visibility across departments with embedded analytics and a harmonized user interface
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  • Configurable Products Sales

    Tap into powerful product configuration capabilities across the entire lifecycle – from forecasting and guided selling to order processing and final billing.

    • Drive customer loyalty and satisfaction with configurable solutions that meet unique needs
    • Leverage guided selling to maximize productivity, and reduce reliance on engineering expertise
    • Lower sales management and sales training costs with fast, easy-to-learn configuration processes
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  • Project Lifecycle Management

    Get complete project lifecycle management capabilities, including quoting, costing, engineering, manufacturing, installation, billing, service, and maintenance.

    • Minimize time to profit for new projects by saving time in research, development, and engineering
    • Drive sourcing and quality cost savings by using economies of scale during the manufacturing ramp-up
    • Ensure transparency in project activities across customers, suppliers, contractors, and employees
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  • Collaborative Demand and Supply Planning

    Balance demand and supply. Respond quickly to changes with integrated demand forecasting, sales and operations planning, and supply network collaboration.

    • Synchronize demand and supply to drive up in-stock rates and increase planning efficiency
    • Improve demand visibility and responsiveness across customers, suppliers, contractors, and employees
    • Improve on-time delivery performance to increase customer loyalty and satisfaction
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  • Engineer-to-Order (ETO) and Project Manufacturing

    Optimize the ETO plan-to-produce process – including enterprise planning and control, plant-level operations, manufacturing execution, and product compliance.

    • Run efficient ETO operations to cut costs, satisfy customers, and meet safety and quality standards
    • Get the insight you need to keep operations humming with manufacturing intelligence
    • Make supply and demand data available anytime, anywhere
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  • Service Parts Planning and Logistics

    Make sure you have the right parts in the right place at the right time. Manage service parts efficiently across ordering, planning, and execution.

    • Increase service reliability, availability, and revenues with our service parts planning software
    • Grow service revenue and margins – and make service a key competitive differentiator
    • Become a leading service profit center by using our service operations and warehousing software
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  • Efficient Manufacturing Operations

    Perfect your entire plan-to-produce process – including enterprise planning and control, plant-level operations, manufacturing execution, and product compliance.

    • Streamline operations to cut costs, satisfy customers, and meet safety and quality standards
    • Run manufacturing operations faster and smarter by optimizing execution and inventory
    • Ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety regulations
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  • Service Management of Field Service, Warranties, and Returns

    Tightly manage service orders, scheduling, dispatch, contracts, billing, and spare parts for your installed base of customers.

    • Equip field service technicians with mobility tools to keep service and product return costs low
    • Promote the complete service lifecycle to improve customer satisfaction and efficiency metrics
    • Grow revenue and profit margins on returns, repairs, warranties, maintenance, and field services
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  • Manufacturing Network Planning and Execution

    Increase visibility across a network of internal plants and outsourced manufacturers – for greater integration and collaboration.

    • Reduce lead times, inventory levels, and over-shipments through better supplier communication
    • Gain greater control over procurement operations and landed costs
    • Minimize payment discrepancies and improve electronic billing – so you can replace paper invoices
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  • Sales OnDemand

    Get mobile, Web, and subscription solutions to help your sales, service, and marketing teams work efficiently, close deals quickly, and improve customer loyalty.

    • Get world-class sales functionality in a software-as-a-service or cloud delivery model
    • Take advantage of subscription-based pricing and SAP ERP integration for fast ROI
    • Provide your sales force with access to productivity tools and information – anywhere, anytime
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  • Logistics and Fulfillment Management

    Get fulfillment tools that help you promise orders, manage inbound and outbound freight, and ensure efficient receiving, storage, and shipping processes.

    • Ensure optimal inventory levels by managing and tracking in- and out-bound warehousing activity
    • Use robust supply chain processes to maximize asset use and cut inventory and transportation costs
    • Consolidate orders to improve available-to-promise commitments and on-time delivery performance
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  • Make-to-Order (MTO) Manufacturing

    Initiate the entire MTO plan-to-produce process, including enterprise planning and control, plant-level operations, manufacturing execution, and product compliance.

    • Run efficient MTO operations to reduce costs, while satisfying customers and quality and safety standards
    • Keep MTO operations humming with our manufacturing integration and intelligence software
    • Ensure MTO supply and demand data availability with our supply chain performance software
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  • Advanced Reverse Logistics Management

    Improve operations and analytics for reverse logistics – including warranty, returns, and repair processes – using our industrial machinery and component solutions.

    • Boost warranty service levels while speeding up repair and return processes
    • Ensure timely collection and reporting of warranty information – to protect profit
    • Drive down costs by using predictive analytics along with user-friendly tools and dashboards
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  • Optimized Asset Operations and Maintenance

    Manage all aspects of asset operations – from procedure documentation to shutdown planning, viewing of open work orders, and coordinating purchased services.

    • Improve run time and equipment reliability – while cutting costs – with integrated maintenance
    • Gain greater visibility and control of manufacturing operations
    • React faster to unplanned disruptions, increase asset uptime, and narrow process variability
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  • Continuous Product and Service Innovation

    Respond quickly to market needs by managing your portfolio performance, product road map, ideas, concepts, innovation, resources, and costs.

    • Link continuous innovation with program and project performance – and understand the impacts
    • Foster a culture of innovation with better research, development, and engineering processes
    • Connect key functions in a closed feedback loop – enabling continuous improvement
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  • Embedded Product Compliance

    Track and document product properties and the use of materials and chemicals to comply with trading and environmental, health, and safety (EH&S) regulations.

    • Protect your brand from costly noncompliance by mitigating product design and distribution risks
    • Rely on embedded product compliance, and keep pace with evolving global regulations
    • Introduce a clean, cross-functional process to make compliance easier – reducing your risk
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  • Salesforce Management

    Improve your sales forecasting, territory planning, account maintenance, pipeline management, and demand planning – by relying on integrated and automated sales solution.

    • Help your sales force acquire profitable customers, speed buying decisions, and improve productivity
    • Increase revenue and foster sales force potential with customer relationship management software
    • Tighten account data control, and improve accurate reporting on sales leads and opportunities
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  • Centralized Sourcing and Contract Management

    Manage sourcing and contracts centrally by connecting supplier management, sourcing, contract management, and operational procurement processes.

    • Gain visibility into demand, maximize savings, and reduce supply chain risk
    • Ensure global contract compliance, and mitigate contract risk
    • Rely on procurement processes specifically designed for industrial machinery companies
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  • Solutions Designed for Growing Industrial Machinery Companies

    Improve operating efficiencies for future growth in the industrial machinery and components industry – and fast deployment for a rapid return on investment.

    • Reduce time to market, and increase response to dynamic customer demand
    • React quickly to supply disruptions with better visibility and collaboration
    • Improve global cost management and faster response times to operational events
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