Why Cost Estimation Software Is Necessary For Equipment Manufacturers?
Amit Kumar Shrivastava
Business Head at Intellinet Systems | Market Leaders in After Market Software Solutions | Helping OEMs Drive Operational Efficiency | Advanced AI-Powered Suite of Aftermarket Software Solutions
If OEMs wants to stay in market, they need to consistently pass test and need to remain relevant and maintain organization growth. In today’s competitive environment, just completing the job or just supplying the parts is not enough for OEMs. There must be an acceptable range of potential to make the job worthwhile.
For equipment manufacturers and their authorized dealers, it’s the time to change the manual strategy, close down the excel spreadsheets, and they should stop wasting time on manually guessing the cost of spares needed to repair a vehicle. It’s time for them to switch to cost estimation software. This is automated software which automatically prepares the list of materials required to repair the vehicle. This way OEM and dealer can save a lot of time and avoid costly error in the process.
Cost estimation software is required at authorized dealerships to increase speed, accuracy and consistency of parts estimation and reduce repair time of vehicles. The software can be easily integrated with software of OEMs and it will provide them with a digital database system that will perform every function, like from calculating parts costs to defining labor hours. It standardizes the way a dealership is performing its parts estimating functions. Moreover, any person will minimal knowledge can operate the software and it will end the reliability on experienced personnel inside an organization.
OEMs also need to consider quoting efficiency. The software is much faster than humans and most importantly all data is of customer is secure at one place. Moreover, timely completion of tasks will increase customer trust on brand.
Cost estimation software automatically updates part pricing and other details. Also, details are visible in real time to the dealers. Here are some features of the software:
Speed - Increase estimating speed and quoting up to 90%.
Accuracy - Data is sent directly from the OEM portal and there are no chances of error in the process.
Consistency – Consistency in process, without leaving behind any point.
Cost estimation software can be used by any organization that wants to standardize the cost estimation process. Cost estimator is generally used by heavy machinery, agriculture, automotive and other equipment manufactures.
The main problem that cost estimator solves is, it saves a lot of time that was wasted in manual method. The estimating time can be lowered up to 90% by using Intellinet cost estimation software. It will also improve consistency in work process.
The software is developed by Intellinet systems and Intellinet have an experience of more than a decade in developing software for equipment manufacturers. Also, some giants are already using electronic parts catalog and warranty management software from Intellinet. The company aims to provide a hassle business environment to its clients, so that they can purely focus on increasing their ROI. If you can have query or wish to enjoy a free demo of the software, just connect to the experts at www.intellinetsystem.com
NOTE: Intellinet software’s are specially designed for OEMs only.