Configure Price Quote (CPQ)

With Configure Price Quote (CPQ) you can accelerate your pre-sales phase. Find out more about CPQ, CPQ processes and CPQ software and learn more about the benefits for your sales department.

CPQ for a more Efficient Pre-sales Phase

Configure Price Quote (CPQ) automates processes for a faster pre-sales phase. Configure Price Quote automates quotation processes for complex and individual products and solutions. This increases your efficiency even before the actual order processing.


What is Configure Price Quote?


Configure Price Quote (CPQ) can be roughly translated as "Configure, set price, create quote". With CPQ, you can automate your process chain right from the sales stage. The focus is on an accelerated pre-sales phase, as intelligent automated processes allow you to avoid errors in configuration and price calculation at an early stage.

Configure Price Quote is used in companies to configure complex products or services, set prices and create quotations. CPQ software automates and optimizes the entire quotation process to ensure that the quotations created are correct, consistent and competitive.

The following points are important when it comes to Configure Price Quote:

  • Configuration
  • Pricing
  • Quote management
  • Workflow management

Cideon advises companies on how data from CPQ processes can be used efficiently. Work with us to implement solutions for end-to-end data integrity and information platforms along the entire value chain. Do you already know Cideon Conify? With our solution, it is possible to use data from the sales phase in downstream processes, as Cideon Conify seamlessly connects your systems (CPQ, CAD, PDM, ERP). The result: fast, efficient and redundancy-free product development.



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Typical Scenarios for Configure Price Quote


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


Error-free Configurations & Price Calculations

The demand for more variant diversity is constantly 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 errors in configuration and price calculation right from the start.

More Efficient Process & Data Management

The more diverse the variance, the faster your database grows. Searching for and finding important project and product data is becoming increasingly difficult. With efficient data and process management by CPQ, you can counteract this.

Faster Quotation Processes

Request just out - offer right there. Expectations are rising, even among your customers. 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 and harmonization between mechanical and electrical engineering is becoming increasingly important. Implement the customer's customization requests in the quotation and the associated items with digitized CPQ processes - across departments and completely automatically.


Advantages with Configure Price Quote



With Configure Price Quote, you can increase efficiency in the pre-sales phase. The implementation of CPQ software offers various advantages. Discover the most important ones here.


Reduced Project Lead Times

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

Increased Productive Time in the Sales Phase

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 the help of Configure Price Quote process solutions.

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.


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FAQ about Configure Price Quote


CPQ stands for "Configure Price Quote" and supports companies in configuring complex products or services, calculating the price and creating a quote. It optimizes the sales process and minimizes errors when creating quotes.

CPQ software automates the configuration process of products or services, taking into account various parameters such as technical requirements, discounts and special conditions. It often integrates seamlessly with CRM and ERP systems to support the entire quotation and sales process.

CPQ is used in various industries, including manufacturing, technology, telecommunications and services. Wherever complex products or customized solutions are offered, Configure Price Quote can optimize the sales process.

CPQ software is not the only way to optimize product configuration in the quotation phase and in downstream processes. Another solution is Cideon Conify, for example. Our software solution combines your sales and engineering data, resulting in more efficient product processing and production. In this way, order design can be optimized.




Configuration Process

Use Cideon to implement a consistent configuration process in mechanical and plant engineering and link your sales and engineering data. Discover new possibilities for better planning and faster projects.




Process Consulting

Within the context of Cideon process consulting, we will work together on your current challenges and identify possible potentials. We address your individual needs and support you in the implementation of new projects. Our value proposition: optimised and short project runtimes in compliance with the defined budgets until go-live.




Cideon Conify


 

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 the creation of ERP-specific parts lists, work plans, circuit diagrams and production processes according to customer requirements, so that individual products can be created quickly and in accordance with specifications.


Main advantages:

  • Automate daily tasks when processing configurable products
  • Consistent data quality
  • Ensure uniform standards for everyone involved in the process
  • Combination in a mechatronic parts list

Cideon Conify is the ideal combination of CONnection and CONfiguration!






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