CPQ software for door manufacturers
As a door manufacturer, you know better than anyone how challenging complex product manufacturing is. Collecting accurate product and pricing information, collaborating with customers and partners, reducing errors and waste… Find out how CPQ streamlines your operations and sales, improving efficiency across the board.
Common challenges in door manufacturing sales and operations
Today's market is driven by evolving customer demands, technological advancements, and increasingly stricter regulations. A few key challenges are always present in door manufacturing, like:
- Compliance with safety and environmental regulations: increasingly strict standards related to safety, energy efficiency, structural integrity, and sustainability.
- Expanding distribution networks: broadening and managing an international distribution network requires a lot of time and resources.
- Technological advancements and cybersecurity: automation, smart technologies, and IIoT are essential to meet evolving customer expectations for advanced, efficient systems.
- Supply chain disruptions cause delays and material shortages, and cause customers to face long waits for spare parts, leaving their doors nonfunctional.
- Rising material and operational costs squeeze profit margins, forcing manufacturers to adopt cost-efficient technologies and lean production methods while still meeting the growing demand for high-quality, complex doors.
- Labor shortages and skills gaps lead to a rising need for internal mobility, upskilling existing employees, and attracting new talent.
How Hive CPQ helps address challenges in door manufacturing
Though the entire discrete manufacturing industry faces these challenges, the urgency differs throughout sectors and companies. Streamlining sales and operations, with a CPQ based on your needs, creates the necessary space to address some of the specific challenges in door manufacturing.
Real-time regulation compliance
Industrial door manufacturing is subject to a lot of increasingly strict international standards, not only for the manufacturing process, but also for the specific industries of your customers. CPQ makes compliance a walk in the park.
- Fire safety and other safety requirements are built right in. Your installations automatically comply with all current (inter)national standards.
- Reduce waste and energy consumption more easily with error-free order fulfillment.
- Industry and technological advancements make every product progressively more complex, with the addition of IIoT and industry-specific requirements. CPQ keeps you updated on all standards and ahead of innovation trends.
- Your company data is safe and secure thanks to Hive’s ISO-27001 certification. You’re sure of GDPR-compliant data management as well as high-level cybersecurity.
Uncomplicated client management
CPQ streamlines communication and collaboration across your entire door distribution network, giving you the tools to work more efficiently and impress clients while gaining deeper insights into your sales process.
- Enhance collaboration with all stakeholders and subdistributors, using a centralized dealer platform to share files, gather feedback, follow up on orders, and allow custom price markups and document branding.
- Prevent costly mistakes with rule-based configurators that eliminate incorrect assemblies from being ordered.
- The automated order intake allows dealers to order configurations and parts independently, saving you precious time throughout the order flow.
- Gain real-time sales insights directly in your CRM, helping you make informed decisions faster.
- Impress clients with sleek visual configurations, clean document generation, and branded configurators for a competitive edge.
Customizable interactive 3D configurator
Hive CPQ boasts a product configurator with interactive 3D models to help define and select colors, installation modes, motors, measurements, and more. You’ll streamline every step of the sales process, for higher quality sales and more effective use of time.
- Interactive documentation and transparent price calculation streamline the quoting process, providing clear, real-time insights at every step.
- New and complex types of doors, like high-speed, sliding, sectional, shutter, counterweight, and others, need more advanced customization.
- Every configuration draws from real-time product information like the current stock, updated prices, and more, for a reliable result.
- Display list prices, purchase prices and sales prices for transparent communication.
Seamless integrations & document generation
Streamline your sales process with CPQ, integrating it seamlessly into your existing systems. With manual entries a thing of the past, you save time, reduce errors, and enhance overall efficiency. Here’s how CPQ transforms your business:
- Connect effortlessly with your current CRM, ERP and PIM systems, whether you need standard integrations or the custom API, to pull up real-time pricing strategies and data.
- Enhance the customer experience by integrating CPQ into your website or webshop, making it easier for buyers to request a quote and order, with the experience configurator.
- Minimize costly errors by using rule-based product configurations that ensure accurate orders every time.
- Generate all necessary documents —quotes, technical documents, and production paperwork—in one click, personalized to match your brand or the customer's.
Hive CPQ has saved us a lot of time, avoiding tons of paperwork. Now that dealers can directly make their own quotes, we saw an increase in the number of quotes with 30%!
Find and sell spare parts effortlessly
Industrial doors manufactured for specific industries or goals are highly specialized equipment. Upgrading, replacing and ordering spare parts is a delicate and error-prone process. Unless you have CPQ.
- Select the correct parts using filtering or interactive technical drawings in exploded views.
- Use unique serial number search and product history to minimize errors and reduce the time spent identifying the correct spare part.
- Accurately calculate prices using price grids for products with variable measurements, and room for discounts or region- and dealer-specific rates.
- Easily configure spare parts and add them directly to your quotes.
Team of expert-engineers on standby
It’s not only easy to train in-house talent to work the CPQ, you’ll also count on a team of expert-engineers for additional support. Adding new products, customizing and optimizing the platform, and more: we’ve got you covered.
Moreover, the efficiency of the CPQ and the support of our experts relieve your own team by optimizing their time, thus alleviating staff shortages. Your team will have more time for product launches, R&D, updating price setting, resulting in an overall quicker time-to-market.
Curious to see how leveraging Hive CPQ helps you scale your door manufacturing business?
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