Custom Product Development

Coordinate between customers, sales, engineering, and product teams to quote and deliver custom products that exceed profit margin targets.

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Custom Orders Demand Speed and Precision Without Sacrifice

What is Custom Product Development?
Custom product development, or engineer-to-order (ETO), is the process of designing and delivering products built to unique customer specifications. Designed for fast-moving manufacturers, Propel unifies real-time data across sales, engineering, and finance to win and fulfill ETO business.
Rapid, Accurate Quote Generation
Complex customer requirements need to be captured and priced quickly. When product, sales, and engineering work from a unified product data model, quoting becomes a competitive advantage rather than a bottleneck.
Sales-to-Engineering Alignment
On-time delivery depends on clean handoffs between commercial and product teams. Connected workflows ensure that what gets sold reflects what can actually be built, on the timeline promised.
Real-Time Cost Visibility
Profitable custom products require accurate, current supplier and cost data at the moment a quote is built. Intelligent platforms surface that data automatically, protecting margins before a deal is signed.

Propel Connects Teams for ETO Success

One Team

A single product thread with automated processes across product and commercial teams ensures frictionless collaboration with accurate data across the entire company. Product teams can use existing designs to accelerate timelines while iterating on customer requirements directly with sales teams—leading to faster and more accurate quotes.

Project Management

Custom products require rigorous project management due to their complexity and individual nature. Multiple teams can be managed in parallel with product development to ensure deadlines, resource allocations, and decision-making are all centrally coordinated and working in concert to deliver projects on time and within budget.

Accurate Financial Info

Access to real-time component cost information allows precise BOM cost roll-ups to ensure quotes meet profitability targets. Sales and engineering can efficiently collaborate to make decisions on higher cost versus lower risk component suppliers—and ensure risk is accurately reflected in the final customer quote.
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Custom Proposal Development
Reduce complexity of product development by seamlessly integrating CRM, CPQ, and ERP with PLM. Integrated change management, flexible BOM management, and integrated project management between sales, engineering, and finance allows you to quote quickly and accurately.
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Customer and Market Requirements
Ensure product teams have access to the needs, expectations, and preferences of customers, the broader market, and regulatory mandates so they can build the right products for the right buyers.
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Design Reuse
Quickly find equivalent design components so engineers can evaluate performance, quality, and customer satisfaction history while comparing cost across components and suppliers to make the best design choices.
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Project Management
Consolidate all needed information to create a single source of product truth for faster development, and on-demand project visibility for all stakeholders with tasks tied directly to product definition.
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Document Management
Streamline document processes, enhance accessibility, and ensure version control with automated workflows that govern how documents are created, approved, secured, published, and accessed. Features include in-file text search, filters, e-signatures, and automated training.
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Cloud-native, role-based, and easy-to-use product lifecycle management enables enterprise-wide collaboration so teams work smarter, faster, and better together.
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Design Hub
CAD-to-PLM integration centralizes design data across every tool and team so engineers spend less time reconciling files and more time building great products.
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Visual Collaboration
Interactive viewables and annotations bring product designs to life, reducing rework, accelerating decisions, and democratizing design data across teams.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does Propel’s custom product development solution enhance collaboration across different teams?
Propel’s solution, designed for custom product development, unifies product data, workflows, and communication on a single platform, allowing cross-functional teams—from engineering to marketing—to collaborate in, as, and when an issue arises. This improves efficiency, reduces errors, and ensures everyone is aligned throughout the product development process.
How does Propel’s integrated PLM & QMS for Customized Product Development help reduce time-to-market?
Propel’s platform for CPD (custom product development) streamlines the entire product development process by automating workflows, improving data accuracy, and enabling faster decision-making. This helps companies accelerate innovation and bring custom products to market faster without compromising quality.
How does Propel help teams deliver engineer-to-order products faster and more profitably?
Custom product development demands coordination that standard workflows weren't built for. Every order carries unique specifications, and the margin between a profitable project and a costly one depends on how quickly sales, engineering, and operations align on scope, cost, and timeline.

Propel's custom product development solution connects the entire engineer-to-order process on a single platform. Sales teams capture customer requirements directly alongside product data, so engineering works from verified specifications rather than email threads. Real-time BOM cost roll-ups give finance and operations immediate visibility into material costs, helping teams quote accurately before committing to production.

Engineers can search existing designs and components to reuse proven solutions instead of starting from scratch, cutting development time without sacrificing the customization the customer needs. Document control, change management, and approval workflows run concurrently rather than sequentially, keeping projects on schedule.

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