Stertil-Koni

Stertil under the brand name "Stertil-Koni" develops and manufactures heavy duty vehicle lifts for the commercial vehicles markets.

This is done in the Netherlands, USA and China. Stertil-Koni is the worldwide market leader with sales subsidiaries around the world and a complete network of exclusive distributors.

The company was founded in 1947 and over the years thousands of craftsmen in garages and workshops have trusted Stertil-Koni lifting systems. Today they are active in more than 45 countries.

Stertil-Koni is part of the Dutch technology group Citadel Enterprises.

Configuration of heavy duty vehicle lifts at Stertil-Koni

Above is the piston lift In-Ground DIAMONDLIFT Frame Version with a lifting capacity of 45,000 kg.

Needs

  • Guided selling as a sales tool due to the wide flexibility of the DIAMONDLIFT
  • A scalable drawing for the each customer configuration
  • Price and discount calculation
  • User definable metrics both imperial and metric and multi-currency
  • An automatically generated order specification

Users

The users are the European and USA sales teams as well as a number of exclusive distributors.

Solution

The solution is a typical CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) implementation with addition of visualization of the configured product.

The user starts the selection process by choosing the location which drives default values for parameters like unit of measure and drive on direction.

The user configures the lift in a guided selection process. When it comes to dimensioning the frame an optimization algorithm automatically recommends the best frame dimensions based on entered minimum and maximum wheelbase of the vehicles that the lift is intended for.

A schematic drawing is generated in the browser and updated as the user makes the selections using the module COMBINUM Graphics. The drawing can also be downloaded in various formats like PDF and DXF as well as attached as an image in a Microsoft Word report.

Depending on the selected unit of measure the dimensioning parameters and the measurements on the drawing is either in inches or in millimeters.

Prices are calculated using COMBINUM Advanced Pricing. The standard dialog for viewing price details is replaced with a report that puts the price details along with an item number for each price item in a Microsoft Excel spread sheet.

Watch the movie about Stertil-Koni In-Ground DIAMONDLIFT: