BigMachines Announces Its Specialized Offering for the Machine Tools Industry
10-Oct-2001
BigMachines Inc., the definitive provider of
eBusiness for Engineered Systems software and services,
announced today the availability of BigMachines for Machine
Tools™, an industry specific framework for tailoring the
BigMachines software suite for the $30 billion machine tool
industry. This 100% Java-based e-business application can
save machine tool manufacturers between 2 and 4% of
revenue by streamlining sales processes, including selection,
configuration and collaboration.
BigMachines for Machine Tools is designed for companies
producing equipment in the entire range of processes, from
milling to hole punching. The framework supports the
frequent, iterative exchange of information as well as
customer-specific pricing practices, enabling buyers and
sellers to better manage RFQ, quotation, pricing and other
sales and procurement processes.
"Industrial machinery manufacturers, distributors and buyers
require specialized software to achieve the benefits of
e-business. We've applied decades of industry experience to
develop BigMachines for Machine Tools, furthering our
position as the leading e-business software company serving
the engineered products sector," said Godard Abel, CEO of
BigMachines. "No other selection and configuration software
is capable of handling the sophisticated application
engineering required with selecting and configuring complex
equipment and parts."
The machine tool industry is a well-established, highly
competitive market in which manufacturers must differentiate
themselves through sales and service. Costly, inefficient
sales processes leave buyers facing long response and cycle
times and poor transaction quality. While machines tool
suppliers have made significant advances in manufacturing
efficiencies and competitive sourcing, the manual, costly
sales processes used widely in the industry have remained
mostly unchanged.
BigMachines for Machines Tools enables machine tool buyers
and manufacturers with access to centralized, up-to-date
product data, application expertise and intelligent optimization
logic, all through a user-friendly, Web-based interface. Users
without extensive product knowledge can easily select,
configure and quote or purchase the optimal machine tool.
By leveraging BigMachines for Machine Tools next-generation
technology and end-to-end functionality, buyers and sellers
using BigMachines can realize considerable savings by
streamlining buying and selling processes to maximize the
return on their eBusiness investment in record time.
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