Comprehensive Costing and RFQ's
Most companies use spreadsheets to issue RFQ’s (Requests for Quote) to vendors and cost out their products, at least in the initial design and development phases, because it’s the most flexible vehicle for this process. Intellimas® gives you the same flexibility of a spreadsheet, and many other strategic advantages:
Real Time Retrieval of Item Master Data
Better Vendor Collaboration on the RFQ
Alerts and Exception Management
Most Importantly: A Repeatable Corporate Process
Find out why a Director of a multi-billion wholesale company said, “Costing has been a breeze with Intellimas®.”
Find out why a Director of a multi-billion wholesale company said, “Costing has been a breeze with Intellimas®.”
Multiple RFQ Scenarios
Handling BOM's and Calculating Targets
Table Driven Values
Spreadsheet Features and More
Multiple RFQ Scenarios
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Companies today are requesting many different quotes for the same item. Because of this, the requester needs to be able to quickly determine the impact to margins for each of these scenarios so that product decisions can be made immediately. Intellimas® is built for speed and can handle the challenges of multiple scenarios with the following features:
Unlimited Scenarios
Easy Copy Paste of Scenarios to Many Items
Quick Selection of Desired Scenario to Determine Product Margin
What-if Capability to Visualize Impact on Overall Margins
Companies today are requesting many different quotes for the same item. Because of this, the requester needs to be able to quickly determine the impact to margins for each of these scenarios so that product decisions can be made immediately. Intellimas® is built for speed and can handle the challenges of multiple scenarios with the following features:
Handling BOM's and Calculating Targets
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The Bill of Material (BOM) is arguably the most critical part of the costing process. Even companies who outsource all material purchases to their contractors will likely require a cost breakdown of each component. Intellimas® can retrieve the BOM from your enterprise system and/or allow for changes to that BOM in order to accommodate various production scenarios. Here are some ways that Intellimas® streamlines this process:
Each Costing/RFQ Scenario Can Have its Own BOM Scenario
Easy Visibility to BOM Changes and Their Impact on Overall Cost
What-If Analysis on the BOM Scenario Without Having to Impact the Original BOM
Quick Comparisons of BOM Scenarios Can be Made On-Screen Without Tedious Reports
The Bill of Material (BOM) is arguably the most critical part of the costing process. Even companies who outsource all material purchases to their contractors will likely require a cost breakdown of each component. Intellimas® can retrieve the BOM from your enterprise system and/or allow for changes to that BOM in order to accommodate various production scenarios. Here are some ways that Intellimas® streamlines this process:
Table Driven Values
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Whether you are determining the cost of a product being made by a contractor or your own factory, many add-on factors go into the final cost of an item. Our goal when implementing Intellimas® for the costing process is to drive as many costs with values in a table. These tables can be retrieved from your enterprise system or built into Intellimas® as another entity. Either way, the objective is to automate the costing process as much as possible in order to increase speed and reduce errors. Here are some of the ways we can drive cost factors in Intellimas®:
Automatically Driven From a Table in an Enterprise System or Intellimas® Itself
Manually Select Values from a Table
Default Values Based on Business Rules
Rolled-Up from an Intellimas® Sub-Entity
Whether you are determining the cost of a product being made by a contractor or your own factory, many add-on factors go into the final cost of an item. Our goal when implementing Intellimas® for the costing process is to drive as many costs with values in a table. These tables can be retrieved from your enterprise system or built into Intellimas® as another entity. Either way, the objective is to automate the costing process as much as possible in order to increase speed and reduce errors. Here are some of the ways we can drive cost factors in Intellimas®:
Spreadsheet Features and More
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Intellimas® was engineered with the mindset of providing end users with the kind of flexibility they get with a spreadsheet, while at the same time giving them lots of strategic advantages. Having these spreadsheet features not only improves speed over traditional enterprise apps, but also makes change management almost unnecessary in the implementation process. End users transition easily to a user interface for which they are already familiar. Examples of some of the spreadsheet-like features in Intellimas® are:
Comprehensive Search and Filters
Various Copy/Paste Options
Column Freezing, Positioning, Hiding, Sorting and Sizing
Calculations and Roll-ups
Intellimas® was engineered with the mindset of providing end users with the kind of flexibility they get with a spreadsheet, while at the same time giving them lots of strategic advantages. Having these spreadsheet features not only improves speed over traditional enterprise apps, but also makes change management almost unnecessary in the implementation process. End users transition easily to a user interface for which they are already familiar. Examples of some of the spreadsheet-like features in Intellimas® are:
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