Only some quotations turn into orders – which makes it all the more important to quote quickly and still with reliable costing. EFA SmartSuite takes over the tedious work: reading in the BoM, assigning part numbers, requesting components.
5 typical hurdles – each one costs time before costing can even begin.
Customer data in every format
Every customer supplies their BoM differently. Spreadsheets help with editing, but hardly with reading in creative formats – and with the next BoM, everything starts all over again.
Inconsistent documents
Coordinates, BoM and assembly plan do not match because the latest changes were not entered everywhere.
Matching with your own library
Without your own part number there is no purchase price and no sound costing – and databases that have grown over time rarely search by value, tolerance and voltage.
Missing or outdated prices
New components have to be requested from several suppliers. Whoever submits a good quotation first often holds the better cards.
Duplicate work
Quotation and order read in the same customer data separately. That costs time – and changes get lost along the way.
How EFA SmartSuite helps ..
4 steps – from the customer BoM through the prices to the order.
Read in the customer BoM
Take over instead of retyping
Conveniently read in BoMs in almost any format
Split grouped designators such as “C1-5” into individual components with one click
Automatically merge entries spread over several lines into one line
Differences between two BoM revisions highlighted in colour
Once by hand – then by macro
Whatever you have read in once by hand, a macro then reads in automatically – including many similar tables. This applies to every table you read in, for example:
BoM
BoM updates
Coordinate file
Additional tables
And if you need more: we implement special additional functions to customer specifications at any time.
Assign part numbers automatically
Assign instead of searching
EFA SmartSuite reads the component description directly from the customer BoM and suggests matching part numbers from your material database.
recognises component values, however your customer writes them
also finds suitable alternatives as well as slightly different part and order numbers
learns the assignment of customer part numbers to your own – for the same customer's next project it happens automatically
can be controlled manually at any time
Request and research missing components
Request instead of copying
Select components and send them to your distributors in a prepared email – without copying and retyping
Online search via the distributors' interfaces: availability, quantity and price directly in EFA SmartSuite
Price trends of unknown components at a glance
Capture once – reuse in the order
Pass on instead of reading in again
The prepared data goes into work preparation without re-importing
Then EFA CAMverse creates the BoM directly from layout data such as ODB++, IPC-2581, EAGLE or KiCad – with all component attributes contained in the data, such as manufacturer and manufacturer part number. As an Excel or CSV file, ready for EFA SmartSuite.
In no time at all, it is clear which components are already in stock.
Theo SchelasniPlant Manager · R&D Elektronik
With EFA, we can convert the various formats of customer data into a standard format for production.
Marco SchönefeldManaging Director · proServ electronic
Besides time savings of more than 50 % in work preparation, this method offers additional reliability when cross-checking customer data, which suits our high quality standards very well.
Rolf-Dieter HaakeTechnical Director · A+B Electronic
