Variant management software

Suppliers struggle with countless product variants to meet individual customer requirements. However, this diversity increases complexity and puts a strain on company resources. Efficient variant management with SAE software creates the optimum balance between differentiation and standardization. The result: 100% overview, more efficiency and customer proximity.

Successful variant management with SAE

Market success with sensible product diversity and
manageable complexity

Mastering diversity

Full control over your product variety with reduced effort

Managing complexity

Analyzing the market and products for the optimal balance between customer requirements and company goals

Increase product efficiency

Efficient management of your product diversity – rapid response to customer requirements and market changes

Increase process efficiency

Central management of all product data, for an optimized portfolio along the entire product life cycle

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Mastering diversity

Easily master diversity with SAE variant management software

With the SAE variant management platform, you can master diversity. You have full control over all the details of your product strategy, reduce the administrative effort and decide for yourself how you want to integrate the system into your IT landscape and your business processes.

SAE variant management software is a solution that can work completely independently or be integrated into the existing system landscape. It has standard interfaces for the continuous transfer of relevant data (materials, configurations, prices, customers, customizing) from a wide variety of applications and systems, such as ERP (e.g. ProAlpha, SAP R/3 & S/4HANA), PLM (e.g. SIEMENS Teamcenter), PIM, CAD, CRM and many more.

The platform enables the central management of all relevant data such as materials, configurations, prices, customers and customizing information

You retain full control over your product strategy and reduce the administrative effort at the same time

The introduction of the SAE variant management software offers you a further decisive advantage: in the course of the system introduction/conversion, your employees and colleagues from product development, product management, sales and marketing prepare the data and thus create a new, organized basis for efficient variant management.

Managing complexity

Focus on what can be implemented sensibly

Variant management analyzes the market, products and profitability in order to master complexity and enable both the optimization of existing processes and future-oriented product planning.

Variant management analyzes the market, products and profitability in order to find the optimal balance between customer needs, product diversity and corporate goals.

Market trends, successful products and uneconomical offers are identified:

  • What are the market trends?
  • How do products and product variants establish themselves on local, national and international markets?
  • Which products and product variants sell profitably?
  • Which products and services are uneconomical?

On the one hand, the findings are used to optimize procurement, production and sales. On the other hand, the findings form a reliable basis for future-oriented product planning and positioning on the market.

The focus is on sensibly implementable solutions that sustainably support the company’s success. The benchmark for current and forward-looking developments is always what can be sensibly implemented and not what is arbitrarily feasible.

Increase product efficiency

Increase your responsiveness with digital variant management

The digitalization of variant management with the SAE software enables you to react flexibly to customer requirements and market changes and to plan your product range with an eye to the future.

Because product design and variability strategies have a decisive influence on the market success of your company now and in the future, the timely and comprehensive digitalization of variant management plays an important role.

SAE software for variant management provides you with an integrated platform that optimally supports you in the consistent management of products, product variants and variant combinations.

  • Customer centricity: Increased responsiveness to rising customer demands.
  • Flexibility: Increased resilience to market changes.
  • Future orientation: support for forward-looking planning and development of the product range.

Increase process efficiency

From start to finish: product life cycle management with SAE

The SAE software enables the seamless integration of existing data, creates a central knowledge repository (“single point of truth”) and offers comprehensive functions for analyzing, optimizing and managing the entire product life cycle.

The platform can be integrated into existing IT systems (ERP, PLM, CAD, etc.) and enables existing data to be imported.

Product and configuration knowledge is stored centrally and redundancy-free and is available to all areas (development, production, sales).

  • Identification of successful and less successful products (“tops and flops”).
  • Analysis, removal or reorganization of inefficient variants.
  • Intuitive maintenance of object dependencies and compatibility data.
  • Management of different price categories, currencies and country-specific variants.
  • Support throughout the entire product life cycle.

Mastering complexity: Simple, fast, structured

With the SAE variant management platform, you also create the basis for the SAE CPQ software in your company
, including the
SAE 3D product configurator.

This allows you to implement an integrative solution that not only optimally supports your internal employees, but also your global sales teams. Offering and selling complex products has never been so easy. Embedded in the website as a product finder, interested parties and customers can find out about your products in a targeted and autonomous manner and initiate a request for quotation on their own initiative. Inspire your prospects and customers with an end-to-end digital and convincing customer journey.

  • Variant management | a strategic decision

    Variant management in manufacturing companies is often still informal and inefficient, mainly based on experience and Excel lists. This is becoming problematic due to increasing customer requirements and market dynamics, as this system is neither scalable nor flexible and knowledge transfer is difficult.

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