In a market where customers expect fast, accurate answers, sales teams often succeed or fail based on speed and consistency. Because of that, the way your team creates quotes for configurable products can directly affect whether you win the deal.
For manufacturers that sell engineered-to-order or highly configurable products, quoting is often the slowest and most error-prone part of the buying process. Teams must manually check rules, go back and forth with engineering, manage inconsistent pricing, and redo drawings and bills of materials. As a result, each opportunity can take days or even weeks to quote.
DriveWorks helps solve that problem. It automates configuration, design, and downstream document generation, so companies can replace a slow, expert-dependent quoting process with one that is faster, more consistent, and easier to track. As a result, sales teams, dealers, and customers can create quotes with greater speed and confidence. Here’s how companies can often accelerate quoting significantly by adopting DriveWorks.
What DriveWorks does
DriveWorks is a rules-based configuration and design automation platform that connects product logic, CAD model automation in SOLIDWORKS, pricing, and document generation in one system. For quoting, its most important capabilities include:
- A rules engine that captures product design and business logic
- Form-based interfaces that guide users through configuration with DriveWorks Pro and DriveWorks Live
- Automatic creation of 3D models, drawings, bills of materials, and manufacturing data
- Quote and document template generation in Word, PDF, and Excel, with pricing and parts lists filled in automatically
- Integration with ERP, CRM, PLM systems, and databases
- Scheduling and batch automation that runs tasks without manual oversight
Together, these capabilities help companies move away from manual, inconsistent quoting and toward a CPQ process that is reliable, repeatable, and auditable.
