A configurator is a software tool that is used to help the customer or seller to carry out a purchase. The users gives a possibility to choose a product from different parts and their properties. The configurator makes sure that the chosen parts are compatible with each other.
Configurator, sales configurator and product configurator are often used to describe the same thing. Configurator is the broad term that includes both sales configurator and product configurator. The difference between the sales configurator and the product configurator are their main focus. COMBINUM is a configurator that incorporates the functionality of both a sales configurator and a product configurator.
The term product configurator aims on a configurator with its focus of creating picking lists and ways of operation. The product configurator can from the ready configuration automatically generate a picking list of the material needed for the manufacturing and the ways of operation the machines needs to produce the product.
