Process Automation
Via RPA (Robot Process Automation) we can automate the generation and management of all your relevant master data for the entire ERP system.
With VCPowerPack, our main focus is the transformation from mass production to mass personalization for the manufacturing industry, where each individual consumer can get what he or she wants. We’re enabling our customers’ brands to personalize their products at every stage of the purchase decision process, which is proven to build greater trust with their customers.
VCPowerPack enables MCP (mass customization production), one basic concept of Industry 4.0. Our newest version combines two major approaches of digital transformation: CPQ and CtC.
The need to quote complex and highly tailored products allows manufacturers to face the problem of combinatorial explosion, meaning the rapid growth of complexity. In connecting with manufacturing, VCPowerPack picks up where other CPQ software leave off, providing plan vs. actual analysis and connecting to inventory control by automatically creating all the master data that’s relevant. VCPowerPack creates master data from finished to semi-finished good, to bill of material to machine routing, price conditions and ranges and so on. Aspiring for simplification, we provide a user-friendly, dynamic interface to help our customers to describe complex products and support their calculation and manufacturing to the fullest extent.
To allow the maximum of customization and personalization, the configurator itself must be configurable. With VCPowerPack we offer manufacturing companies an open architecture that can hold all of their models and mass customization processes, with one user friendly frontend and a dynamic adaptable backend.
VCPowerPack is a standardized SAP Add-on to extend and improve the variant configuration in SAP. From usability to performance, we use VCPowerPack to optimize your entire SAP ERP system for product configuration and calculation.
What is done by multiple employees today can be handled by one VCPowerPack operator with less risk.
Via RPA (Robot Process Automation) we can automate the generation and management of all your relevant master data for the entire ERP system.
In order to avoid errors during the quotation process, VCPowerPack supports with object dependencies, plausibility checks and detailed status and error messages.
Our claim is speed so that you can concentrate on your business and do not have to wait for the system. Quotations in a few minutes are no problem with VCPowerPack.
VCPowerPack processes all data necessary for a detailed and accurate configuration and calculation. There are no rounding errors or lack of transparency regarding consolidated data.
Mobile integration enables multi-channel sales for a quicker generation of sales documents and master data. Whether from the office, with a customer on a tablet, or on the move.
We understand the necessity to include the data of production and logistics relevant systems in every calculation. Therefore, we take care of the integration into your system landscape.
CoreVC is a standardized, configurable framework for interaction with SAP LO-VC. It enables the maintenance of multiple product groups within the same SAP configuration and provides the integration of parts lists and work plans. Through the object dependencies, as well as the possibility to set the properties for a new calculation of values within the configuration model, you achieve significant performance enhancements.
Multiple Usable Configuration Models
One configuration model can be used for multiple similar products.
Configuration Model Container
All product related rules and dependencies are integrated in the container for the respective configuration model. They help in setting in-house standards and automating repeating configurations. If, theoretically, a product can be produced in multiple ways, rules can determine which machine is able to facilitate production based on its dimensions. Once found, further rules for the optimal production route (cheapest, fastest, temporarily preferred) are proposed.
Multiple Units in One VC
Length or weight units for the material can be incorporated metrically or imperially and control offer, contract, and production orders accordingly.
Standardized Framework
A product family needs to be produced in different locations? Then everyone can revert to the same set of rules. The VC is then fed through the differing, local machine parks.
SmartVC offers you an intuitive and user-friendly configuration interface. Settings for products or components are arranged in a clear and intuitive tree structure. A traffic light system for status checks and well thought-out and detailed status reports simplify adaptions, helping to correct wrong entries. The dynamic display and real time updates enable quick and reliable entries and calculations.
Intuitive Configuration Interface
The tree structure of the configuration process allows the user to operate the configuration in a guided fashion. Logically built, it guides the user through the supply chain, from the big picture to the details. The separation in sales, production, and logistic elements also allows a processing by various expert bodies. With that being said, due to our set of rules in CoreVC, this is in nearly a 100% of our customer applications not necessary.
Status Message with Hint Text
Through a traffic light system, it is evident in every stage of the product description which information are still missing.
Interactive Interface
Dependent on the input of the user parts of the structure, the user interface opens and closes, thus hiding unnecessary fields and directories.
Automatic Route Determination (Routing Supervisor)
The ideal production route is optimized by parameters that you choose, be it costs or capacities. A processing machine is depicted by an SAP workplace, which provides the information, i.e. processing dimensions, which necessary for the automation. SmartVC identifies all possible combinations, selects the most suitable and list alternatives.
Additionally, a backwards definition of the process-relevant material requirements and quantity of waste is supported.
MD stands for MassData. SmartMD assists with the master data management for material masters, parts list classifications, work place assignments, customer material info records, and so on. Further functionalities for initiating diverse workflows, as well as the work across important interfaces are also integrated. An otherwise sparsely supported manual creation of data and processes is automatically created by SmartMD to a pre-defined moment, which saves time and avoids mistakes.
Through a comprehensive protocol the creation of an object can be retraced. The status report shows possible problems, i.e. that the creation process cannot be conducted by SAP.
Duplicate Check and Material Systems
Before new material masters are created (MM01), it is determined whether material masters with the same configuration already exist.
Workflow of Standard SAP Transactions
Standard SAP transactions are automatically initiated in the background:
Material masters can be created in multiple organizational units (Locations or organizational hierarchy).
Customer material info record (VD51).
Creation of the selling price as master record (VK11).
As a basis for further processing steps, the material newly calculated with certain parameters (CK11)
The new material is allocated to the parts list (CS40).
The new work plan is assigned (CA02).
To keep the number of master data low in your system, offers are created with dummy materials. During the course of an order the dummy is replaced with newly created and fully pronounced material number. All additional information, such as texts, remain unchanged.
PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)
Updates materials and their respective parts list. Adaption of configuration in case of changed resources, tools or printing plates. This equals a versioning of the material master.
Separation
Products of different usage but similar technical specifications, can be combined through separate steps to reduce costs.
Mass Maintenance Material Configuration
If modifications need to be done over time, because texts, manufacturer, packaging scheme, tool number or something similar has changed, adaptions to the materials can be rolled out through mass updates.
Migration Support
Pre-defined upload-data assists with the adoption of master data from the previous system(s). This optimizes the expense, that inevitably occurs during new installations of systems.
Reliable statements on cost and price components are essential. VCPowerPack supports you in many ways. Based on the detailed cost calculation, target prices, bottom price limits and contribution margins can be calculated.
Scale Quantities
SmartVC supports the automatic calculation of different scale quantities. Check the influence of scale quantities and lot sizes on cost and price components, such as freight costs, storage costs, target prices and contribution margins.
Keep the Overview
Selected pricing elements are clearly displayed in the main screen of the quotation entry, for all products and scale quantities of the quotation. Detailed information on all products and scale quantities is displayed in tabular form in a PDF document.
Pricing Portal
Use our optional add-on Pricing Portal to compare the key figures of different offers and products. Furthermore, the Pricing Portal offers possibilities to simulate e.g. the effects of raw material exchange, design changes or adjustments of the transport distance.