You use this program to configure your own product online, using a streamlined interface that is easy to navigate when making your product, component and operation selections.
This allows you to customize your own products that are manufactured-to-order, assembled-to-order, and engineered-to-order or sold in many configurations.
It is typically used by customers who are not regular SYSPRO users, so the product creation process is more efficient and less prone to errors as the customer is making the product selections.
Before using the Web-Based Product Configurator:
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Ensure that the relevant setup options are defined
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Ensure that the configuration structure for the product has been defined in the Product Configuration Maintenance program
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Ensure that the website login details have been provided by the supplier
- Log In
- Select Product to Configure
- Configure Product
- Parent Creation
- Components and Operations Selection
- Finish
- Quote
- Notes and warnings
You will login using your SYSPRO credentials, or the details provided to you by your supplier.
On this screen, you will choose the product you want to configure and indicate the quantity required. You can choose the product from the list displayed, or search for it.
These product configurations have been assigned to you from the Product Configurator Maintenance program.
Once the product details have been entered, the system displays the selection criteria defined for the configuration.
Selection criteria are used to adapt a particular configuration to a customer's requirements.
A selection refers to a group of similar criteria, for example color, while the criteria refer to the choices within a selection, for example red, blue and green.
You need to make your selections on these screens.
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The configuration details you have selected are used to create a stocked or non-stocked parent.
On this screen you can view or change the parent part details, such as the stock code, description and warehouse. The changes which can be made depend on the Configuration Maintenance options you selected.
Select Create to accept your entries and move to the component and operation selections.
Depending on the product definition, you must update the components/operation quantities to be included in the configured product.
Select Update to confirm the selections.
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Once you have made all your choices on the previous screens, you can view the values for the configured product or you can view/change the parent details.
Select Create Quote to add all your selections onto a quotation.
You can view the quotation details and choose to print it out. The quotation will be taken to the supplier, from where the product can be manufactured based on your selections.
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If a user is not linked to a specific customer, you can define an operator as a guest/anonymous user on the E.net tab in the Operator Maintenance program.
You need to enable the Inventory Product Configurator and Quotations Primary Query functional areas for this operator when assigning e.net licenses.
If logging in as a guest user, you will add the customer details on the Finish screen.
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You can login automatically to the web-based product configurator by adding parameters to the end of the URL used to navigate to it, for example http://localhost/SYSPROProductConfigurator/Account/Login.aspx?user=SPCGUEST&Guest=True&comp=0&password=pass, where guest = true if using the guest account and comp is the company to log into.