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Adroit Consulting, an operational consulting firm headquartered inNorthbrook, Ill., hosted a manufacturing conversation on Wednesdaywith SPX Corporation and BigMachines about OnDemand salesconfiguration tools at the National Manufacturing Week Conferencein Rosemont, Ill., just outside of Chicago.

The session titled, "Process Orders More Rapidly & Accuratelywith Integrated OnDemand Sales Configuration Tools" was heldfollowing a presentation on how to use market intelligence to drivemanufacturing improvements.

Adroit Consulting shared insight into how customers can optimizequoting and ordering processes, and how enabling technologies, suchas on-demand quoting tools with ERP integration, can quickly turnquotes for configured products into orders.

Adroit Consulting CEO Stan Martin and Partner Kathleen Johnson werejoined by Jeff Sporer, National Sales Manager at SPX Corporationand Greg Swender, Vice President of Marketing at BigMachines.

SPX talked about its successful implementation of the BigMachinesquote, configurator and proposal platform to improve sales andreduce costs. The system dynamically generates base object models(BOMs) and computer-aided design (CAD) drawings, which areautomatically fed into the SPX enterprise resource planning (ERP)system and sent to the factory floor.

For a copy of the presentation, please contact: Laura Field atlfield@adroitconsulting.com.

About Adroit Consulting

Adroit Consulting (www.adroitconsulting.com) is an operationalconsulting firm, specializing in developing strategies,implementing operational improvements and aligning business andtechnology. The company's practice areas include OperationalStrategy, Sales Operations, Customer Support Operations andBusiness-IT Alignment. Adroit declares success when changes areeffectively executed and operational. For more information, visitwww.adroitconsulting.com. -0- *T Adroit Consulting clients include:Abbott Laboratories Badger Meter Bankers Life & Casualty BekinsHolding Corp. Blue Cross Blue Shield (HCSC) Bosch Power ToolsColumbus McKinnon DDN Pharmaceutical Logistics Dearborn CapitalManagement Elkay Manufacturing Everpure (division of Pentair)Focused Health Solutions Acco Brands Globe Union Intermatic KerryIngredients Lions Clubs International Menasha Paper The ManitowocCompany Philips Lighting SourceMedia Sunstar Butler Synovate(division of Aegis Group,plc) Woodhead Industries (division ofMolex) Yaskawa Electric Americas Zebra Technologies *T