Resolve any product variant in seconds—not hours of spreadsheet wrestling
Graph-modeled 150% BOMs with constraint-based pruning, multi-factor scoring, and full compliance traceability.
Thousands of part combinations and no system to resolve which ones actually belong together.
The Challenge
A manufacturer of configurable interior products—doors, frames, and hardware systems sold to hotel developers and commercial builders—maintained over 8,000 part variants across 200+ assemblies. Sales engineers spent 2-3 hours per quote manually resolving BOMs from PDF catalogs and Excel matrices. Invalid configurations made it to procurement 12% of the time, triggering rework, delays, and margin erosion. Compliance verification for RoHS, REACH, and fire safety standards was a separate manual step that added another day to each order. The company needed configuration resolution at quoting speed with built-in compliance gates.
The Innovoco Solution
We modeled the entire product catalog as a connected structure—assemblies, parts, constraints, and compliance certifications linked by their real-world relationships. The system resolves valid configurations instantly by eliminating incompatible combinations, scoring alternatives on cost and lead time, and attaching regulatory proof to every bill of materials automatically.
Phase 1 — Graph model + constraint ingestion
Mapped the full assembly-to-part hierarchy from ERP and PLM exports. Defined constraint rules (excludes, requires, preferred-with) and linked compliance certifications (RoHS, REACH, fire rating) directly to each part. Validated against historical orders to confirm the system resolves known-good configurations correctly.
Phase 2 — Resolution engine + quoting integration
Built a resolution engine: given a customer's selections (material, finish, dimensions, hardware), the system eliminates invalid combinations, scores remaining options by cost and weight, and returns a ranked BOM. Integrated with the quoting tool so sales engineers get a resolved, priced, compliance-verified BOM in the configurator—no spreadsheets.
Key implementations
Declarative constraint pruning
Allow/deny lists and exclusion rules eliminate invalid combinations at configuration time—not after assembly. Engineers never see an impossible configuration.
Multi-factor scoring
Surviving options are scored on cost, weight, lead time, and supplier preference. The system returns the optimal build, not just a valid one.
Compliance-by-construction
RoHS, REACH, WEEE, and fire-safety certifications are graph nodes linked to parts. Every resolved BOM carries its compliance proof chain automatically.
Engineering traceability
Changes to a part or constraint propagate through the graph—impact analysis shows which products, orders, and certifications are affected before the change is committed.
Technical Innovation
The product model treats configuration groups as decision points—constraints are evaluated as the system resolves each selection, not after the fact. For large catalogs (10K+ parts), resolution is partitioned by assembly family with caching for common configurations. When a regulation changes, a single lookup identifies every affected product, order, and certification in the portfolio.
Impact
- Configuration time from 2-3 hours to under 60 seconds per quote—sales engineers resolve and price in the configurator, not in spreadsheets.
- Invalid configurations reaching procurement dropped from 12% to near-zero—constraint pruning catches incompatibilities at quoting, not at assembly.
- Compliance verification collapsed from a separate day-long review to automatic—every BOM carries its regulatory proof chain by construction.
- Engineering change impact analysis in minutes instead of weeks—the graph shows every affected product, order, and certification before a change is committed.
Sales quotes are faster and error-free, procurement receives only buildable BOMs, and compliance teams have traceable proof chains without manual audits—manufacturing agility that scales with the product catalog.
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