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CONFIGURATOR COMPARISON

How Logik.io Can Augment Or Replace SAP VC for Manufacturers

See how Logik.io stacks up to SAP Variant Congigurator when it comes to creating production BOMs 

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HOW LOGIK.IO DIFFERENTIATES

How Can Logik.io Replace SAP VC? 

 

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All-in-One Sales & Manufacturing Configurator

While SAP VC is intended to be only a manufacturing configurator, Logik.io can do everything SAP VC can, plus provide a guided highly intuitive sales configurator. 

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Simple Low-Code Maintenance

No need to deal with KMATs and custom development required to make SAP VC work for your business. Logik.io's  point and click headless administration makes it simple.

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Lightspeed Performance

SAP VC was built for power,  not performance. Logik.io delivers both.
Take milliseconds to run thousands of rules, compared  to multiple seconds of run time in SAP VC.

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SAP VC Attributes

SAP’s Variant Configurator is a constraint based configurator connected to SAP’s ERP system. It was developed well over 20 years ago and has not been meaningfully updated since. 

How Does Logik.io Differ?

Logik.io was built by the minds who invented the CPQ (configure, price, quote) space two decades ago at BigMachines. Chris Shutts and Godard Abel have since iterated on their invention to create a new attribute based configurator to address the needs of complex configuration in a modern market.

Powerful, but Misses the Mark on Performance

  • Built with engineers in mind
  • Manufacturing BOM generation and Order Management were prioritized
  • Integrates seamlessly with SAP ERP
  • Performance is lacking constraint based configurator w/ sequential rule running

Powerful & Optimized for Selling, BOM & OM

  • Solving engine is as powerful as the SAP Variant Configurator
  • Set apart by its flexibility to extend configuration anywhere 
  • Ability to house all configuration rules
  • Headless model creates single source of truth for all configuration

Sales & E-Comm are Second Fiddle

  • Not tailored to the sales team - responsible for configuration
  • Outdated software with rigid UI - no ability to customize
  • Age and architecture don’t provide guidance on quote and slow performance

Selling & E-Comm are Prioritized

  • Displays sales information to internal sales team and ecommerce customers
  • Easily able to create a full BOM to any ERP system
  • Guided selling prompts & attribute based model optimize the sales process 
  • Ability to customize UI experience for perfect fit 

Lacking Flexibility

  • Cannot extend configuration and manufacturing rules in SAP VC to other systems because of age and architecture
  • Connection between SAP VC and Ecomm requires custom code and is not an intuitive experience for the users

Flexibility to Extend Anywhere

  • Able to integrate directly with SAP VC 
  • Provides sales team and e-commerce customers with a better experience immediately

Difficult to Maintain

  • Maintenance requires extensive coding and internal SAP VC experts
  • System is delicate 
  • Hundreds of KMATs required to keep the system in good working order 
  • Troubleshooting the system is a slow and archaic process 
  • Narrow and rigid solution - not built to address the modern requirements of configuration

Easy to Maintain

  • Maintenance of the tool can be performed by a salesforce administrator 
  • Point and click system
  • Blueprints create easy troubleshooting - eliminates hundreds of custom rules 
  • Easy data and rules transition into the system via our Matrix Loader 
  • Prevent duplicative work

 

Migrating SAP VC Data to Logik.io

Logik.io has a proven track record of migrating existing rules and data successfully from SAP VC into Logik.io’s rules engine using the Matrix Loader. Below is a diagram of the steps required to translate the data into Logik.io. 

Translate Data Directly from SAP to Logik.io

Download Data Directly from SAP, Format in Excel, Upload to Logik.io

Translate Data Directly from SAP to Logik.io

Migrate at a Pace that Works for You

Logik.io can handle all of the functionality of SAP VC with improved performance and additional functionality, but migrating every rule and piece of data immediately may not make sense depending on the level of customization in your SAP VC instance. Logik.io has been able to integrate with SAP VC during the migration process to ensure that the transition is smooth and frictionless as the new functionality is rolled out across your organization. Below is a chart showing how Logik.io can feed SAP VC information to generate a Manufacturing BOM and eventually how Logik.io will be able to bypass SAP VC to create the Manufacturing BOM for SAP ERP.

 
Working with SAP: Options for Production BOMs

Options for Maintaining or Replacing SAP VC for BOM Configuration

Working with SAP: Options for Production BOMs