Estimating and Bidding Solutions

"Manufacturing companies, especially those with an ETO requirement, should consider Cincom." – Gartner

Cincom's Estimating and Bidding solution captures product and pricing knowledge critical to the estimating process. Cincom also delivers an integrated suite of quote-management, product-configuration and sales-configuration solutions that help reduce estimating costs. In many companies with a high ETO (Engineer to Order) proportion of their business, desktop software such as Word and Excel are still the major tools of automation. Cincom's Estimating and Bidding solution allows you to define and enforce best-practice rules for solution specification, cost estimating, pricing, approvals, and proposal management.

The Cincom Estimating and Bidding Solution provides:

• Process-flow definition
• Activity templates and collaborative workflow
• Product and service configuration
• Authorization and approvals
• Cost estimating
• Pricing and margin analysis
• Proposal management
• Document generation
• Special items and sub-contract activities

"It’s our customers’ engineering lead times that we have worked to reduce. This process once took 4-6 weeks to complete, but with Cincom’s solution, it now takes us less than one hour, and the data generated by the system is certifiable." – John Larabee, Manager, Engineering Systems, Siemens