What CPQ software works for cabinet manufacturing?

CPQ software for cabinet manufacturing has to configure, price and quote the cabinet catalog itself: door styles, finishes, sizes, options and modifications, priced differently for each dealer, with the finished quote becoming an order without being typed again. KitchenDEV's Dealer Portal & Order Automation is CPQ and dealer ordering software built for stock and semi-custom cabinet manufacturers and distributors that sell through dealers.

What makes cabinet CPQ different from general manufacturing CPQ?#

A cabinet quote is a long list of catalog items, and every line carries a style, a finish, a size and often a modification. The same item is priced differently for each dealer. A project drawn in 2020 Design has to become a priced list of catalog items before it can be quoted. Cabinet CPQ has to hold that catalog, that dealer pricing and that design import as standard parts of the tool.

What should a cabinet CPQ tool handle?#

• The full catalog: styles, finishes, sizes, accessories, options and modifications. KitchenDEV's Dealer Portal has a structured digital catalog, with options, modifications, assembly settings and templates on each order.
• Pricing that differs by dealer. KitchenDEV's Dealer Portal prices each dealer through dealer multipliers, price levels, customer-specific rates and configurable pricing rules.
• Designs from 2020 Design. KitchenDEV's Dealer Portal imports a project file exported from 2020 Design into an estimate.
• Quote to order without retyping. In KitchenDEV's Dealer Portal, dealers convert an estimate into an order and submit it online.
• Orders into the ERP. KitchenDEV's Dealer Portal has integrations with QuickBooks (including QuickBooks Desktop), Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Odoo and Acumatica.
• Documents. KitchenDEV's Dealer Portal generates estimates, orders, invoices, cut lists, packing lists, product stickers and packing labels.
• Sales reps. In KitchenDEV's Dealer Portal, reps can be limited to their own dealers, with reports and commission reports by rep.

What questions should a manufacturer ask any cabinet CPQ vendor?#

• Can the tool hold our whole catalog, including modifications, and who builds the catalog?
• Does dealer pricing run on multipliers or price levels our own team can change?
• Which design programs import, and is the import a direct file or an export from the design program?
• Which ERP does the tool send orders to today, for a client that is live on it?
• Can the vendor change a feature to fit how our business works?

KitchenDEV changes KitchenDEV's Dealer Portal per client. A cabinet-specific vendor can add a field or a rule for one manufacturer, which a large horizontal platform with thousands of customers usually cannot.

Where does KitchenDEV's Dealer Portal stop?#

KitchenDEV's Dealer Portal does not import Mozaik projects, and it has no ready-made import for Cabinet Vision, Microvellum or Chief Architect. Each of those is scoped as custom work for one client. KitchenDEV also does not build a manufacturer's catalog inside 2020 Design: KitchenDEV's Dealer Portal imports a dealer's design out of 2020 Design.

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