Solutions for Product Configuration
Product Configuration that fits customer needs and production limits
The shift
Product configuration is evolving from a back-office task into a strategic advantage. Customers expect solutions that match their exact needs. Traditional product catalogs and static offerings struggle to deliver this, creating delays, mistakes, and missed opportunities.
The transformation is toward configurable products and bundles that let customers personalize their selections while staying within production limits. This can range from selecting computer components to building complex industrial equipment or subscription packages. The focus is on giving customers control and clarity without slowing down sales or fulfillment.
Organizations that embrace configurable products see fewer errors and faster quoting and ordering. They also deliver a more engaging buying experience, making product configuration a competitive advantage rather than a limitation.
Challenges
Sales sends out offers with configurations that can’t be produced.
Configuration rules are scattered across multiple documents, making validation time-consuming and difficult to keep up to date.
Quoting complex products using Excel is highly time-consuming, resulting in longer time-to-quote and losing the advantage of being the first to respond.
Catalogs consisting of thousands of material variants are difficult for sales to work with and impose high maintenance costs.
Complex offerings, such as bundles of products and services, are impractical to manage without a dedicated system, limiting business opportunities in how product combinations can be positioned.
CLARITY Solutions for Product Configuration
We help companies move from static product catalogs to flexible, configurable offerings. With experience across industries and technologies, we guide organizations through the full transformation – from defining the configurable product concept to selecting the right technology and implementing solutions according to SAP best practices.
For businesses adopting new configurations, we ensure that the solution meets business requirements and remains robust over time. For companies already using SAP Variant Configurator, we connect the back-end configuration engine to modern sales tools, unlocking the full value of CPQ and Commerce systems while preserving advanced configuration capabilities.
Products and Services for Product Configuration
A sales-friendly front end that guides users through valid options and price variants, producing professional quotes. Built for business administrators, CPQ supports rapid changes without heavy development.
An ERP-based configuration engine that defines characteristics, classes, and rules to guarantee manufacturability and consistency from quote to production. Advanced Variant Configuration takes it further, utilizing SAP’s latest innovations in database communication, constraint-based solving, and high-performance processing.
The SAP CPQ Accelerator by CLARITY leverages pre-built assets, including user story templates, test script templates, and pre-built features across all areas of SAP CPQ, such as quotes, products (simple, configurable, bundles), pricing, quote approval, output documents, and integrations.
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How CLARITY Transforms Product Configuration
- Configuration Rules
Attribute dependencies, exclusions, dynamic default values, and automated complex calculations ensure that configurations remain feasible and accurate throughout the process.
- Real-Time Validation & Pricing
Instant feedback shows the impact of configurable options on pricing, providing transparency, and reducing errors.
- Bundling
Multi-level product offerings are supported with dependencies between items, along with bundle-specific pricing and discounting capabilities.
- Model once, configure anywhere
Configuration models maintained in SAP VC/AVC can be exposed to SAP CPQ and SAP Commerce Cloud, combining the power of the backend engine with user-friendly front-end interfaces for consistent catalog administration.
- Guided Selling
Business-based questionnaires optimize the configuration process, helping users select valid options with ease.
Outcomes for the business
The configuration process is more transparent and straightforward for sales representatives by bringing all relevant information into a single place and enabling guided product selection and configuration flows
Prevent invalid configurations in real time so orders are right the first time - no callbacks, re-quotes, or delivery delays - resulting in a smoother buying experience and higher customer satisfaction
Simplify product modelling and maintenance by integrating back-end and front-end solutions. Eliminate data inconstancies between the systems while benefiting from both – powerful back-end configuration engine and user-friendly UI of SAP CPQ and SAP Commerce Cloud