Configit helps large manufacturers design, manufacture, sell and service highly configurable products, with higher quality at lower cost, eliminating configuration errors, while reducing time to market by up to 92%.​ As the pioneer of Configuration Lifecycle Management, Configit provides a system-agnostic SaaS solution that enables the orchestration of a shared source of truth on configuration data. ​
With its multi-patented Virtual Tabulation technology, Configit empowers manufacturers to master product complexity with unprecedented accuracy and speed.​​
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This video is an episode of Razorleaf's Stay Sharp podcast. In the video they dive into the fundamentals of Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) with expert insights from Anders Rasmussen of Configit, a company specializing in software solutions for complex configurable products.

Anders, with his extensive background in engineering and configuration software, lays the foundation for understanding CLM, differentiating it from similar concepts, and underscoring its significance in the modern manufacturing and digital landscapes.

Configuring Success: Unpacking the Essentials of Configuration Lifecycle Management - Part 1

How can companies attain and maintain a competitive advantage?
By ensuring their entire organization is operating from the same data. To make sure sales doesn’t sell a product that can’t be manufactured, or engineering doesn’t design a product that isn’t marketable, every function that touches a product needs to be working from the same information.

A Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) approach makes this possible by establishing a shared source of truth for enterprise-wide configuration data. 

By adopting a CLM approach employees can collaborate and innovate across functions with configuration data that is reliable, accurate and easily accessible.. 

In this webinar, Henrik Reif Andersen answers the most frequently asked questions about Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM).

Transforming Manufacturing: The Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) Approach

In recent years, B2B manufacturing has witnessed a surge in complexity, challenging companies to synchronize diverse customer demands, regulatory standards, and intricate supply chains within integrated IT frameworks. In this presentation, Dr. Jan Göpfert will elucidate the importance of mastering process and product complexity to gain a competitive edge.

Jan will showcase various customer examples to underscore how companies excelling in consistent modularization and standardization establish the bedrock for successful transformation projects. He will emphasize the critical involvement of business and IT needs, steered by top management and encompassing the entire global IT architecture.

Furthermore, Jan will highlight the significance of stable, modular product architectures as the linchpin for successful implementation across all configuration systems and sales channels. Additionally, he will discuss how adept management of product development and streamlined configuration lifecycle management can yield benefits such as optimized product variance, portfolio enhancement, and the transition from Engineer-to-Order (ETO) to Configure-to-Order (CTO) processes.

How to Master Complexity and Streamline Configuration Processes – End-to-End

In this presentation, Jochen-Thomas Morr from PwC, will explain how Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) consolidates configuration processes that are often scattered throughout the functional silos of a company to create quantifiable business results. Jochen-Thomas will provide actionable insights on how to leverage existing IT investments to accelerate product lifecycles and shorten time-to-market, as well as a blueprint on how and where to start a CLM project to gain the quickest return.
PwC views Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) as a top priority for global B2B manufacturing companies with complex products to stay competitive. With today’s economic downturn and workforce shortages, B2B manufacturers are under pressure to lower costs and increase operational efficiency across the organization.
As an efficient and scalable approach for providing reliable, up-to-date product configuration data, CLM enhances sales, engineering, manufacturing and service solutions based on a seamlessly integrated CLM-PLM-ERP backbone. But the true value of CLM is providing an enterprise-wide platform for cross-functional collaboration that breaks down IT silos to not only digitally transform the organization but also make it more agile and responsive to rapidly changing market requirements.

How to Master Complexity with an End-to-End Configuration Process

Exploring the future of engineering excellence. Watch Dr. Florian Harzenetter (PTC) and Anders Rasmussen (Configit) unpack the critical dynamics of today’s engineering landscape and the transformative role of Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM).
Florian Harzenetter, Global Advisor Industrials, Senior Director at PTC will delve into current market trends and business challenges for Engineering and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), exploring Digital Transformation and Digital Thread. Florian will discuss how PLM and CLM complement each other to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency.
Anders Rasmussen, Product Manager at Configit, will tackle the challenges engineers face amidst increasing product variability, shedding light on efficient configuration data management. Anders will outline how configurable BOMs, configuration rules, and a seamless collaboration of rules from Sales, Manufacturing, and Support can be unified within a framework.

Increasing Productivity in Your Product Lifecycle Combining PLM with CLM

The power of data orchestration to unlock new opportunities for innovation, sustainability, and AI.
In today’s dynamic manufacturing environment, digital transformation is imperative. Manufacturers must streamline processes, shorten time-to-market, and adapt to changing customer needs. Configuration Lifecycle Management is key, enabling digitization, minimizing custom engineering, and transforming product delivery methods.
Gartner states: “Strategic Planning Assumption (SPA): By 2026, configuration lifecycle management will transform 40% of manufacturers, reducing the amount of customer-specific engineering required to deliver products.”*
This presentation will address the urgent need for manufacturers to revamp their digital transformation strategies. Henrik will explore orchestrating product data for a comprehensive, error-free data model, crucial for trends like sustainable product configurations and AI adoption. Henrik will also discuss AI’s transformative potential for configuration technology, including Virtual Tabulation®, urging manufacturers to embrace the digital future.

*Source: Gartner Report: Gartner, Top Strategic Technology Trends in Asset-Intensive Manufacturing for 2023, by Analyst(s): Alexander Hoeppe, Jonathan Davenport, Sudip Pattanayak, Simon Jacobson, Marc Halpern, Arjun Boparai, Christian Hestermann, Published 31 March 2023.GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mar k of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

Rethink: Accelerating Digital Transformation in B2B Manufacturing

The rise of customization and personalization across B2C and B2B markets is driving an explosion in product variants and configurations. This creates a critical challenge: effectively managing these variations throughout the entire manufacturing process to fulfill specific customer orders.
For engineering departments, this means managing the lifecycle of product variants and configurations, especially in relation to change management. Concepts like modularization, product line engineering and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) are gaining traction, along with the recognition that product variant and configuration management that links engineering to manufacturing, sales and service is essential. 
This presentation delves into how Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) can act as a cornerstone for implementing systems engineering concepts. By establishing a single source of truth for product configurations, CLM facilitates seamless information flow between engineering and other crucial departments across the entire value chain.

Empowering System Engineering with Configuration Lifecycle Management

SAP recently introduced a new Advanced Variant Configuration (AVC) solution intended to replace SAP LO-VC used in SAP ECC. 
As customers are planning their migration from SAP S4/HANA to SAP ECC, questions arise as to whether they should adopt AVC, continue to use LO-VC or look at alternatives. 
In this session, Jesper will explore the differences between LO-VC and AVC highlighting the benefits and potential drawbacks. 
Jesper will also introduce alternative solutions that will allow companies to continue using LO-VC and provide additional benefits that should be considered in migration planning.

Migrating to SAP AVC? – An Opportunity to Consider Alternatives

Salesforce has provided a “Bring-your-own-C” API interface for many years, enabling customers to integrate more powerful product configuration management solutions, like Configit Ace®. 
Configit customers have taken advantage of this capability to improve the configuration experience for their customers using Salesforce CPQ. Now, Configit is extending this capability to offer a “Bring-your-own-Q” concept to our customers. Configit already supports Configit Quote and Salesforce CPQ but can now also support other CPQ solutions extending the power of Configit Ace and Virtual Tabulation to your end users. 
This session will explore various solutions Configit has delivered to customers that have improved the performance of Salesforce CPQ, as well as omni-channel sales cases where Configit Ace is the shared source of truth for multiple CPQ front ends from different vendors.

From “Bring-your-own-C” to “Bring-your-own-Q”

According to Gartner, “40% of Manufacturers will adopt CLM by 2026.” Many vendors have also adopted CLM or CLM-like concepts over the last year and CLM has now been recognized as a top 10 strategic technology for manufacturers. 
Why is CLM so important? In an age of customization and personalization, it is no longer enough to manage the lifecycle of products; it is now critical to manage the lifecycle of product configurations offered and sold to customers. 
In addition, manufacturers are facing increasing commercial and regulatory requirements, as well as opportunities made possible by new technologies like Digital Twins and Digital Threads. 
This session Henrik Hulgaard will provide inspiration on how to get started with CLM, as well as a preview of new capabilities that will make it easier to adopt CLM and enable powerful new capabilities.

How Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) Empowers Future-Ready Businesses

In this Tech Talk, Configit VP of Product Management and Co-founder Henrik Hulgaard discusses what we mean when we talk about an open, agnostic configuration platform and how Configit Ace® allows organizations to bring data together from multiple sources within the enterprise to provide a shared source of truth with respect to configuration across all functions.
Henrik uses real-life examples to illustrate the way external data can be published to Configit Ace® and consumed through standard, uniform, and open APIs by various applications, all using the same endpoints. Learn how a platform-agnostic cross-functional configuration solution can help your organization improve productivity and achieve economies of scale by aligning your configuration data across functions to one shared source of truth.

Why Choosing a Platform-Agnostic Configuration Solution is Essential for Growth

The “C” (Configuration) part of a standard CPQ system is struggling to keep up with the complexity of modern products and the growing demand for personalization and self-service.
Hear how you can strengthen the “C” in a standard CPQ with a vendor-agnostic configuration solution that provides the scale and insight manufacturers need to succeed in handling the increasing product complexity and customer requirements.
Michiel explores the past and future of CPQ and explains how its proliferation has led to data silos and made it challenging for manufacturers to have a unified view of their product configuration data.

Enhance the “C” in Your CPQ Solution

By consolidating the product configuration processes that are often scattered throughout the functional silos of a company, Configuration Lifecycle Management leverages existing IT investments such as ERP, PLM, and CRM to create an intelligence layer on the product configuration process that delivers a quantifiable impact on the business performance. 
In this presentation, Henrik Reif Andersen will present key use-cases that demonstrate how manufacturing enterprises have optimized their businesses by connecting their product configuration process across functions, achieving revenue growth through shorter time-to-market, cost savings through increased efficiency and risk mitigation by elimination of configuration errors.

Configuration Lifecycle Management – A Game Changer in Manufacturing

Traditionally, product lifecycles were linear processes, with PLM systems handling design and engineering from start to finish. Today, manufacturing companies strive to let customers configure their products to support their individual personal needs, while harvesting the resulting data and behavior patterns to detect new trends. This new landscape of increasingly complex products can no longer be managed using the traditional linear processes, and present significant challenges to manufacturers on their digital transformation journey.
Discover why integrating a PLM system with Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) provides the scale needed to meet the growing complexity of products and dynamic customer requirements without impacting existing system installations and processes.

How to Leverage PLM to Master Product Complexity

In this presentation you will gain insight into the latest research on why and how manufacturers need to change their strategy to master product complexity based on Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) enabling data-driven product configuration. This approach provides a high level of transparency of product dependencies down to individual mechanical, electronic or software features – supporting better choices in the digital transformation journey with more reliable and profitable solutions.

Moving From Process-driven to Data-driven

Configuring Success: Unpacking the Essentials of Configuration Lifecycle Management

This video is an episode of Razorleaf's Stay Sharp podcast. In the video they delve into the digital forefront of manufacturing. With Anders Rasmussen from ConfigIt as our guest, we peel back more layers on Configuration Lifecycle Management, exploring its impacts on business, engineering processes, and the overarching digital thread in manufacturing.

They also discuss topics such as; mass customization, the role of Product Line Engineering (PLE), and supply chain management impact.

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