CenterPoint

Field-based Quoting Configurator

CenterPoint stores all your product pricing and options information and incorporates a multi-level bill of materials (BOM). Use it to generate precise, detailed quotes in the field.

I'm a manufacturer – how can CenterPoint help me?

Strengthens your brand and your relationships
• Makes it easier to do business with you by strengthening your ties to dealers and distributors.
• Increases the visibility of your brand since you can brand our application as your own.
• Since you control the information that each dealer and distributor sees, you can set up dealers in overlapping markets and/or dealers that specialize in quoting windows and doors for specific markets.

Increases productivity and reduces waste
• Eliminates time and errors from manual data entry and time spent by engineers to check quotes and orders.
• Reduces the number of reconfigured orders due to incomplete information or invalid configurations.

Improves sales
• Improves sales forecasting by allowing you to see what is being quoted as well as what is being ordered.
• Allows you to tailor communications to dealers to boost and direct sales. For example, you could offer a special promotion to those dealers who have not been quoting certain types of products, or to those whose order size or close ratio has been falling.

How can CenterPoint help my dealers/distributers?

• Provides quick, accurate, professional-looking quotes to your customers, including to-scale drawings of each window and door and your logo.
• Increases their productivity by reducing time spent preparing quotes.
• Streamlines their workflows and order tracking by organizing and queuing up orders and compiling their statistics such as quote/order volume, etc.
• Provides separate quotes for dealers and distributors and their customers so that they can immediately see their profit on each quote.
• Allows dealers to manage their own sales forces through margin control, permissions, and other features.

What makes CenterPoint a uniquely powerful field-based quoting tool?

Fully automated transfer of quoting and ordering information
• Depending on your business, 80% or more of your quotes can come from dealers. Imagine the savings compared to manual re-entry, not just in terms of time spent but also in prevention of data entry errors. With an industry average error ratio of 8%, can you afford a system that doesn't automate this process?

Engineering-accurate drawings for your quotes and orders
• You can export our drawing files to third-party CAD programs or, with our Equipment Integration module, for use with specific equipment like glass cutters.

Update your information in real time
• With other configurators, you have to wait until the next scheduled update ­ which may be six months or more ­ to revise pricing errors or product errors. With CenterPoint, make your modifications and revisions as often as you want - users receive the latest updates each time they log in. CenterPoint also stores how and when each door or window was built to assist with warranty repair work and other functions.

Automatic software updates
• Tired of waiting for clumsy CD-ROMs in the mail and convincing everyone to adopt the new version? Our no-fuss updates automatically occur on a regular basis.

Built-in error prevention
• We understand that to err is human – that's why we've made it easy for you to catch and correct information before finishing quote. You are notified as soon as you enter incorrect information, saving time and frustration during the quoting process.
• CenterPoint also certifies pricing, specifications and even verifies a customer's credit before certifying automatically sending it to the manufacturer. Depending on your needs, you can set order holds on quotes on a per customer basis so you can review before sending them to the manufacturer.

Automatically generate multi-level bills of materials (BOM) for production
• Typical BOMs include component lengths, type and size of glass, angle cuts, notch positioning and manufacturing instructions for all components.

Available whenever you are
• You can generate quotes and orders around the clock because the system is always "on." You can still use the system during your planned "downtime" and even if you're without internet access, unlike a browser-based system. All quotes can be saved locally to the user's machine and uploaded to the server when the system is back "up."

Dynamic quoting
• Users can update line items in a quote to easily show customers multiple options.

Robust, flexible configuration options
• It's no surprise that CenterPoint handles standard windows and doors. But how about custom grilles, ganged window configurations, specialty sizes, and stacking and mulling? Or, say, proper grille alignment even in windows with different daylight openings? With CenterPoint, your custom and complex configurations are a breeze. Our unique trim and jamb extension wrapping logic recognizes practically any shape and can generate detailed BOMs for exterior trim and jamb extensions on complex products. Window and door options are available only if they are valid options for a product so that you're never asked about options that don't apply.

Masters shipping costs for you
• CenterPoint calculates order weights for shipping so there are no surprises down the road.