Sterling Group Selects Cincom Acquire Configure, Price, Quote Software

NORTH RYDE, Australia - May 17, 2013 - PRLog -- Worldwide software provider, Cincom Systems (http://www.cincom.com.au/), announces that the Sterling Group (http://www.sterlco.com), a provider of industrial equipment for the plastics industry, has chosen Cincom Acquire® (http://acquire.cincom.com/) (http://acquire.cincom.com), a product configurator, quoting and pricing software designed to improve sales processes for companies selling complex products or services. Cincom Acquire is a Microsoft® global strategic partner for manufacturing.

“What we see with our customers who implement knowledge-enabled configure, price, quote solutions is that they are not just selling products and services,” says Jim Wilson, Cincom Acquire Program Director, “they are also selling more value because they are putting knowledge around recommendations and guidance.”

Cincom Acquire helps companies:
· Close deals up to 80 percent faster
· Configure products and services
· Produce perfect quotes and proposals for customers and prospects
· Extend product, pricing and discounting knowledge to field reps, channel sales and dealers
· Access, view and analyze all sales activity and pipelines across all channels

Cincom Acquire enables true collaborative selling processes and provides guided selling (http://acquire.cincom.com/products/guided-selling-product...), channel and distributor collaboration (http://acquire.cincom.com/products/multi-channel-selling/), sales and product configuration (http://acquire.cincom.com/products/guided-selling-product-configuration-software/) as well as quotation (http://acquire.cincom.com/products/pricing_quoting/) and proposal management (http://acquire.cincom.com/products/document-proposal-management/) and integrates with existing systems including Microsoft Dynamics® (http://acquire.cincom.com/products/microsoft-crm-cincom-acquire-cpq/) and other enterprise systems. Cincom Acquire (http://acquire.cincom.com/) has helped companies selling complex products and services successfully streamline their sales, design and proposal processes by delivering critical product and sales knowledge to the point of sale, while significantly reducing “quote-to-cash” time. Cincom (http://www.cincom.com.au/) has helped manufacturers reduce proposal generation time from five days to 15 minutes, decrease time to close a sale by 80 percent and cut lead times from 14 weeks to six weeks.