CONFIGURE PRICE QUOTE (CPQ)

CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) software, is a precise sales tool for companies to swiftly generate accurate quotes for orders. CPQ often work in tandem with CRM and ERP applications.

CPQ assists in generating from simple to complex quotes and configurable products with user friendly interface. Time and effort in creating complex quotes by the sales force will be reduced considerably. CPQ automatically pulls together every relevant information, assisting the sales force to generate quotes quick and with utmost speed.

CPQ assists the Salesforce even a newbie in creating accurate quotes with simplicity and precision ensuring no sales is lost to the competitor. Extremely helpful guided selling options to accurately nail down to the required product in a complex list of categories and products.

CPQ helps in Automating discounts, pricing and approvals to maximize revenue and margins and assists the sales force with color tags to determine margins, thus ensuring the products are not sold with no or very low margins.

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Configure

Price

Quote

Configure

CPQ allows the products and services to be configured with greatest flexibility. CPQ allows the sales force to configure unlimited categories and subcategories with millions of products. Using the product configurator you can intelligently derive the part numbers and validate any part numbers with ease. With the Guided selling option salesforce will be asked simple questions to guide them the right product and also suggest alternates and best options to meet any specific need of the customer. Salesforce can use the effective dates to exactly launch and discontinue products and the products or features will automatically be removed from the catalog thus eliminating the need to maintain duplicate data. With automated competitive cross reference, the system will automatically suggest equivalent products based on competitors part number based on the rules to exact or near match.

Countless Products

You can easily manage unlimited categories, subcategories and products with ease using the product catalog. The Catalog supports multimedia images, videos and graphics making it easier for the sales rep to exactly find the required product and configurations.

Flexible Product Definition

CPQ allows the product to be configured to a very granular level. Using the intelligent derivation of part numbers any part number can be validated even though there are billions of them available.

Competitor Analysis

Automated cross reference of competitor allows the sales rep to enter the competitor part number and CPQ will suggest equivalent products and alternate products based on the rules for exact or near match. User will also be alerted if the matching product is unavailable.

Steering the Sale / Guide Selling

Guided selling feature will guide the sales rep by presenting the right information to find the exact product and suggest alternate products based on the rules by probing simple questions.

Price

All the complex pricing calculations can be handled easy. CPQ allows to competitively price your products and to take advantage of upselling and cross selling. CPQ has a streamlined approval process defined through which the product may need to be approved at multiple levels before being accepted as the final price which will be the most optimal and competitive price for the products and services.

Multi-Tier Pricing
CPQ supports geographies, currencies and supports partner channels. This feature can handle pricing based on different markets and geographies which may include currency conversions, one time fee or recurring fees, leases, purchases and other relevant scenarios.Control and display pricing, product availability, geography, industry, customer, or date and discounting according to channel.
Streamed and Automated Approvals
CPQ indicates the margin health using color codes throughout the negotiation process to ensure the product is sold at the optimal price with optimal margins. There would be a number of reasons like margins, discounts, non-standard terms, delivery time, etc.. where the quote requires approval which can be set by the administrator. When the criteria is met the system will automatically trigger the approval process. Quotes that do not trigger the approval will be accepted automatically to speed up quote delivery.
Upsell and Cross Sell
CPQ would provide real time sales guidance to upsell or cross sell products which would help the sales rep to understand and leverage the options available. CPQ can be used to automate recommendation of premium products, or offer incentives for alternate product or increased quantity. CPQ would also suggest related products, services and accessories with effective and high quality.

Quotes

After the final pricing is derived, an aesthetic, elegant and best quote can be generated using the in built templates. The quotes can be saved in various formats for easy access and editing as required. The system provides greater flexibility to add or remove various sections to the quotes to make it more relevant. Similar to Pricing, Quotes supports multiple reviews to make it more accurate and uncompromised.

AUTOMATED QUOTES

Quote can be created with a click of button and the quote will be formatted uniform and elegant. The automatically created quotes can include graphics, tables and charts for better representation. The quote is updated in CRM if the CRM is integrated with CPQ making the quote available in CRM ensuring the forecast is kept up to date.

VERSATILE TEMPLATES

CPQ allows the user to create and maintain templates. It also provides the flexibility to add additional sections to the quotes like brochures, Spec documents, data sheets, etc. The completed final quotes can be sent to the customer with the options to track events like the time when they receive and review them.

MOBILITY

CPQ integrates seamlessly with other CRM and Salesforce enabling the pertinent data to be available within the CPQ system. CPQ uses unified interface to ensure the best viewing and working experience on all devices including mobile phones and tablets. CPQ supports offline devices where the required data can be downloaded and the updates can be synced later when the device is online.

REVIEW QUOTES

Based on the complexity of the quotes, it may need to undergo the review process several times to ensure the most accurate information is provided to the customer. CPQ supports versioning of the quotes when an update happens through the course of negotiation. All the revision versions of the quotes will be available in the system enabling to review the data and compare different versions side by side.