Kingspan's primary products are architectural business panels used in construction. Orders are complex and vary greatly from project to project. As an international building materials company with 159 manufacturing facilities, multiple lines of business, and more than 15,000 employees in over 70 countries, Kingspan was spending far too many hours managing configuration, creating orders, and processing sales.

Dated Configuration Tech Was Slowing Kingspan Down

The sales and engineering teams were using Excel documents to configure products.  Products weren’t updated in a timely manner, and the rules that create the models were not maintained or uniform. Configuration of these complex products was time consuming, difficult, and hard to ensure accuracy.  

The company was headlong into an SAP Variant Configuration implementation based on advice from another vendor. The modeling recommendation they were following was overly simple for Kingspan’s complex product offerings and they were running into serious challenges. Kingspan reached out to the Configuration Workgroup (CWG), a leading international user group of SAP customers and partners focused on product and solution configuration, where they connected with eLogic.