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.