01Capture what you know
Start with the rules behind your products.
Product options, constraints, part numbering logic and pricing inputs form the basis of a more dependable process. The rules should be reviewed with the people who know the products.
Our team helps translate your existing product information, rules and constraints into the Product Knowledge Model (PKM): the structured set of options, components, restrictions and where each applies. You bring the product expertise. We help put it to work.
Rules captured · Fiber patch cord
Configure · Fiber patch cord, duplex
3 of 6 choices madeConnector A
Connector B
Fiber type
02Guide the configuration
Help people choose what can actually be built.
Guide sales through product options while accounting for valid combinations and required information. When the catalog ends, sales adds a component with a labeled estimate and keeps going. What they learn is proposed for shared reuse, and estimates stay labeled until a maintainer accepts them.
Want to see this with your own product family?
Bring an ordering guide. We’ll walk through how its rules become a guided configuration.
03Build the quote
Move from product selection to a quote.
Cost is built in the configurator with provenance on every number. The part is minted at save as a serialized base plus its variables, or your own number. Price and margin are set at add-to-quote, with the quantity, against floor, base and list guides.
Configured part
FPC-LCU-SCU-OS2-D-LZY-0030
Quote Q-24091
OpenThe full walkthrough
One gap, two salespeople, two weeks apart.
Three connected days. An ordinary catalog quote. The day the catalog runs out and one person’s answer is captured. And a day two weeks later, when that answer quietly works for someone else.
The goal isn’t to remove expertise. It’s to stop spending it twice.
Illustrative sequence with demo data. Sarah, Mike and part numbers are fictional.
Then it gets faster
Every part you create is a template. Every requote keeps its number.
04Keep experts in control
Put expert attention where it belongs.
Rules are only valuable when they reflect real manufacturing capabilities. One knowledge maintainer reviews proposals, edits where they apply, and accepts them into the Product Knowledge Model (PKM). Exceptions that need approval are flagged before a quote is sent.
Your products
Let's test the process with something real.
Bring a difficult product family. We'll discuss how to model its rules and what would need to be validated.
Common questions
Questions manufacturers ask first.
Short answers. The walkthrough covers the rest.
Do we need an IT department to use it?
No. Partfiniti is delivered as a web application. There are no special servers or hardware to install, and the Partfiniti team helps configure and validate the first product family with you.
How is pricing handled?
Cost is built in the configurator with provenance on every number: from data, or a labeled estimate. A missing cost shows as undetermined, never silently zero. Price and margin are set when the line is added to the quote, with the quantity, against floor, base and list guides. How your pricing inputs are maintained is agreed during setup.
What happens with nonstandard requests?
When a request falls outside approved rules, Partfiniti flags the exception and routes it through the right review process. Estimated items are labeled as estimates, and the approved answer becomes part of the Product Knowledge Model for the next quote.