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Mapping Product Configuration Approaches to Windchill
Windchill enables you to establish a product configuration process that supports your business strategy for a specific product family. The next table provides suggestions on how a business strategy for delivering product variants can be mapped to Windchill product configuration capabilities.
Business Approach
Related Capabilities Supported by Windchill
Assemble-to-order and Assemble-to-stock
Options and choices are used for filtering an overloaded product structure.
Assemble-to-order product orders are typically created using a Sales configurator outside of Windchill.
For Assemble-to-stock, the creation of the individual product variants can be performed in Windchill.
Configure-to-order and Engineer-to-order
List-based options are used for filtering an overloaded product structure, while parameters provide advanced selection logic for an additional configuration of the variant part structures for each order.
Typically, the option definitions and parameter logic along with variant specifications are maintained in Windchill.