what is BuyDesign?

BuyDesign® is a comprehensive guided selling and configuration solution. It combines an advanced product configurator with Internet-centric sales solutions, and integrates them with your existing engineering and manufacturing systems to help you accelerate sales by becoming 'easier to do business with'. At the same time, it helps you reduce administrative costs, sales engineering requirements, and order errors.

Why is Configuration Important in Today's World?

In markets such as building products, furniture systems, industrial equipment, and many others, customers are increasingly demanding products that are customised to fit their specific needs and space. At the same time, they want those products to be easy to buy, with competitive prices and fast delivery. Manufacturers who offer such service are gaining a competitive advantage and winning a growing share of their markets.

Selling solutions tailored to your industry

BuyDesign® has the flexibility to streamline the interest-to-order and order-to-delivery cycles for just about any product with a wide range of features, options, and dimensions.

BuyDesign® industry solutions combine industry-specific experience and implementation templates with base BuyDesign applications to provide a solution that is tailored to the needs of specific industries or product types.

You may want to explore several of our industry solution pages to identify challenges and capabilities that apply to your particular products and the markets you serve

Building products - solutions for windows, doors, cabinets, and many other types of interior, exterior, structural, and mechanical products used in new construction, remodeling, and furnishing of residential, commercial, industrial, retail, and public spaces.

Equipment and Machinery - solutions for any type of large or complex products used for construction, farming, manufacturing, medical treatment or scientific research.

Specialty vehicles and boats - solutions for any type of customisable vehicle used for transportation or recreation.

Industrial components - solutions for many products and subsystems that become part of a customer-specified end product or system.

Other to-order products - solutions for just about any configure-to-order product you currently sell or envision

Solution Delivery Phases

Planning - jointly define project scope, objectives, anticipated ROI, and rollout strategy.

Implementation -BuyDesign capability training, solution design and system configuration, integration design and development, product rules design and development, and CAD model design and development.
Deployment and Rollout - acceptance testing, user training, readiness assessment, go-live, and phased deployment of various user groups, regions, and/or capabilities.
Support - on-going technical support, hotline, 24x7 support web site, upgrades and enhancements, etc.

Structured Workshops, Templates, and Tools

In the initial phases, the BuyDesign Solution Delivery process uses a series of well-structured workshops where TDCI personnel and appropriate members of your team jointly develop and document important aspects of the project and solution. The outputs of these workshops provide the designs used by team members to develop each aspect of the solution. This workshop-based process makes maximum use of your people's time as well as TDCI resources. Workshop deliverables include:

ROI document
Project plan
BuyDesign training
Functional solution design
Technical infrastructure design
Integration design
Configuration rules design
CAD model design
Test plan definition

Each workshop is supported by various templates and tools that help guide and accelerate the process, and document the results.

MPBA / TDCI Personnel

MPBA / TDCI has been helping companies implement enterprise-level solutions since 1992. Our BuyDesign Solution Delivery team is made up of experienced professionals with skills in every aspect of deploying your BuyDesign solution:

Business process engineering
Product configuration
Application integration
CAD modeling
BuyDesign solution configuration and personalization
Application extension development
Project management

BuyDesign® Overview

Guided Selling, Quoting and Configuration Solutions

BuyDesign is a guided selling, quoting, and configuration solution developed to help manufacturers streamline the entire interest-to-order cycle for customised products. BuyDesign can help you:

Increase sales by becoming 'easy to do business with'
Reduce administrative and sales engineering costs
Reduce lead times
Reduce order errors

Modular Components

BuyDesign is made up of primary applications for:

Interest capture - tools to capture your end customers' attention, imagination, and business.
Requirements capture - tools to make it easy for professional designers to specify your products.
Quote and order management - comprehensive support for multi-level sales channels and self-service buying for end customers.

All BuyDesign applications incorporate advanced capabilities for:

Product configuration - a powerful engine for guided selection, configuration, pricing, and document/data generation.
Product visualization - dynamic generation of configuration-specific rendered images, 2D models, and 3D models.

BuyDesign is built on a foundation of supporting applications for:

System and deployment management - online, distributed, or combined approaches.
Enterprise integration - data synchronisation, transactions, and web services.

You can choose to implement some or all BuyDesign components to meet your specific needs:

BuyDesign Channel Sales and BuyDesign Storefront provide complete, ready-to-deploy selling solutions.
BuyDesign Configurator, BuyDesign FlexRender, BuyDesign Flex2D and BuyDesign Flex3D components are utilized by the BuyDesign selling solutions. They can also be integrated into your own custom applications and/or existing enterprise systems to add powerful, consistent product configuration and visualization capabilities.
BuyDesign Build-Your-Own, BuyDesign Virtual Catalog, and BuyDesign Spec-In can be deployed as front-end extensions to core BuyDesign selling solutions or as stand-alone applications that extend your reach even further into the buying process and demand chain.

Advanced Software Architecture

Built on the stable, robust, and widely deployed Microsoft .NET technology platform, BuyDesign's advanced software architecture is inherently reliable, scalable, and easy to manage. And it's designed to integrate smoothly with your existing environment, while providing the flexibility to adapt to changing business needs over time.

Download BuyDesign's Technology and Architecture datasheet.

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