Taking the Sting Out of Customized Products: How Two Dynamics ERP Customers Found the Right ISV Configurators to Ease Manufacturing, Processing, Ordering

Customized products are inherently difficult to produce, buy, and sell, because there are so many variations.  Manufacturers strive for efficient ways to meet their customers' ordering needs, whether it is with a consumer e-commerce system, B2B e-commerce, streamlined channel sales, or other approaches. 

For Microsoft Dynamics customers with seriously complex and often unique configurator requirements, but without their own development team to build such a system from the ground up, most seem to agree that ISV solutions are the only sensible option with the latest Dynamics product releases. Especially since Microsoft's configuator options may not fit the bill for many Dynamics users.

About three years ago, window and door manufacturer Kinro Inc. was moving to the Dynamics NAV platform of its sister company, Lippert Components Inc., a steel manufacturing company. But Kinro also needed strong product configuration capabilities that integrated with Dynamics NAV.

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