Configure Price Quote (CPQ)

Automated processes for faster presales phase.

Configure Price Quote (CPQ)

Automating quotation processes across complex and individual products and solutions – sounds complicated, but it's not. With Configure Price Quote (CPQ) you increase your efficiency in the presales phase.

Automated Processes for Faster Presales Phase

With Configure Price Quote (CPQ), literally translated as “configure, price, quote“, you automate your process chain in sales. The focus is on an accelerated presales phase, as you avoid errors in configuration and price calculation at an early stage with intelligent automated processes. CIDEON advises companies on efficient configure-price-quote processes. Realize solutions for end-to-end data integrity and information platforms along the entire value chain with us.

Use Cases

CPQ processes are the answer to react to the increasing demands of your customers at an early stage. With powerful tools, CIDEON supports you in leading these projects reliably and efficiently to success today.

Error-Free Configurations and Price Calculations

The demand for more variant diversity is continuously increasing. Respond to this. Gain an advantage in terms of costs and delivery times by offering complex and individually designed products or services in a standardized way. With CPQ processes, you avoid configuration and pricing errors right from the start.

More Efficient Process and Data Management

The more diverse the variance, the faster your data inventory grows. Searching and finding important project and product data becomes increasingly difficult. With efficient data and process management, you can counteract this.

Faster Quotation Processes

Inquiry straight out – quotation straight there. Expectations are rising, even among customers for capital goods. Therefore: Improve your quotation processes, not only with a view to avoiding errors, but especially with a view to greater efficiency.

Cross-Divisional Process Automation

Cross-departmental coordination between mechanical and electrical engineering is becoming increasingly important. Implement feedback or adaptation requests from the customer in the quotation and the associated items with digitized CPQ processes - cross-departmentally and completely automatically.

Benefits

Automate quoting processes across complex and customized products and solutions – sounds complicated, but it's not. With Configure Price Quote, you increase your efficiency in the presales phase. Benefit from the following advantages:

Reduced Project Lead Time

Accelerate your project cycle times with Configure Price Quote. Use automated process modules to significantly reduce the time between customer inquiry and revenue booking.

Increased Productive Time

Use the digitized process chain for more productivity in your day-to-day business. Minimize routine tasks, focus on your core business and inspire your customers with new solutions.

Interdivisional Cooperation

Simplify your collaboration - across teams and disciplines. Take advantage of automation, for example, to configure your products across mechanical and electrical engineering.

Reduced Dataset

Reduce your data inventory with Configure to Price process solutions. Integrate your existing data management systems (MCAD, ECAD PDM) with an ERP system and save time.

Faster Offers

Create complex proposals in significantly less time. Use automated processes to handle changes in requirements. Create and send sales quotes faster and more efficiently.

CIDEON Conify

Your Software Solution for a Consistent Configuration Process

CIDEON Conify consistently links data from the sales and engineering phases to automatically provide PDM-compliant MCAD and ECAD data of the configured product. This is the basis for the subsequent Engineering-to-Order and generation of ERP-specific bill of materials, work schedules, wiring diagrams and production processes according to customer requirements, enabling the creation of individual products quickly and according to specifications.

Core Benefits:

Automation of daily tasks in the processing of configurable products
Consistent data quality
Ensure consistent standards for all process participants
Merging into one mechatronic BOM

CIDEON Conify is the ideal combination of CONnection and CONfiguration!

Learn more about CIDEON Conify

Configuration Process

Realise a consistent configuration process in mechanical and plant engineering with CIDEON and link your sales and engineering data. Discover new possibilities for better planning and faster projects.

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Ann-Kathrin Fritsche, Customer Success Manager

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Our Added Values

CIDEON advises and supports companies in optimizing their product development processes - from conception and engineering to manufacturing and service. We stand for:

Decades of Expertise

Rely on decades of practical knowledge in system integration and process consulting. CIDEON understands your business challenges in digital transformation and supports you with unique solutions along the entire value chain.

Customized Engineering

Benefit from customized solutions with CIDEON software and interfaces. Integrative, powerful and perfectly tailored to your individual requirements in day-to-day business.

End-to-End Process Consulting

Transform your digital requirements into corporate (added) value. We simplify your processes, map them digitally and make them economically viable - across functions and divisions throughout the entire product development process.

International Cooperation

Place your trust in a strong group of companies. CIDEON is part of the family-run, globally active Friedhelm Loh Group and is guided by the principles of customer-focused and sustainable corporate management.

CIDEON Support

Quality, speed and reliability in engineering play a crucial role in your success. All-round services are therefore as important as committed specialists and powerful software.

CIDEON Support gives you quick and easy answers to your questions, detailed information about products and solutions, and helpful tips and tricks.

Managed Services take us one step further: This service enables us to maintain an overview of your CAD/PDM/PLM environment and thus ensure your software's long-term operational reliability. You can then always be sure that your systems are always up to date and operable.