Strategic Goal
to unify quoting and configuration across all sales channels through a scalable and integrated SAP solution.
Challenges
The company faced a range of limitations tied to its legacy product configuration system:
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- Lack of CRM integration: The previous configurator could not connect with the SAP Sales and Service Cloud, resulting in siloed workflows and inconsistent data.
- No customer-specific pricing logic: Discounts based on customer terms and conditions could not be applied automatically, limiting pricing flexibility.
- No dealer access: External users such as dealers and large customers had no access to the configuration environment, hindering indirect sales.
- No approval workflow support: The system lacked the ability to generate structured approval workflows for quotes.
- Limited document generation flexibility: Outgoing document formats and layouts could not be easily adapted to business needs.
- Custom-built system with poor performance: The highly customised legacy tool struggled with performance and scalability.
Solution
The company partnered with CLARITY to implement an integrated quoting and configuration environment based on SAP and third-party components:
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- SAP Configure Price Quote: Served as the central solution for guided selling, quote creation, and price calculation, replacing the underperforming legacy configurator.
- SAP Sales Cloud & SAP Service Cloud: Provided a central CRM platform with synchronized customer data, enabling full integration with SAP CPQ for optimized quote management.
- SAP CPI & SAP ECC: Enabled real-time pricing logic and smooth data flows between CPQ and ERP, ensuring consistent pricing across configurable products.
- CAMOS CPQ Integration: Allowed complex product configurations to be modelled within CAMOS while leveraging SAP CPQ for quoting and approvals.
- PIM Integration: Extended CPQ capabilities by incorporating product data from the Product Information Management system, supporting personalization and configuration accuracy.
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Results
The SAP-based solution delivered measurable improvements in quoting speed, accuracy, and configurator accessibility:
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- CRM & CPQ Synchronization: Full integration between SAP Sales Cloud and CPQ ensured accurate and up-to-date customer and quote data across the sales cycle.
- Advanced Product Configuration: Integration with CAMOS enabled performance-driven configuration for complex product offerings.
- External User Enablement: Dealers and key customers gained access to personalized configuration and quoting, accelerating indirect sales.
- Customer-Specific Pricing: Real-time pricing pulled from SAP ECC supported conditional discounts based on customer agreements.
- Custom Document Output: Sales teams could generate personalized, professional proposals using flexible document layouts and templates.
- Faster Sales Cycles: The “copy quote” functionality and guided quoting logic significantly reduced time to proposal for internal users.