SAE.

Simplify complexity.
Automate sales.
Empower your business.

Revolutionize your sales with our premium software applications. Master any product complexity and optimize your processes through seamless integration into your system landscape. Experience the future of quotation creation.

Our standard software
A perfect fit for all of your use cases

SIMPLIFY COMPLEXITY

Variant management: your key to greater efficiency in product development and product management.

Attention product managers! Master the complexity of your product portfolio and accelerate your time-to-market with our powerful variant management software!

Our solution enables you to master complex product structures, manage variants efficiently and optimize your product development processes.

Optimize your product portfolio and bring innovations to market faster!

Complexity management

Structured diversity of variants

Automated processes

Error minimization

Improved collaboration

Faster time to market

Keeping complexity under control with AI

Sales

Accelerated quotation preparation

Individual configurations

Transparent pricing

Improved collaboration

Higher closing rates

Boost through AI Assistant SAElly(R)

AUTOMATE SALES

CPQ software:
Your key to more efficient sales of your complex products

Boost your sales performance and delight your customers with our CPQ software! Create precise quotations in real time and benefit from seamless integration with your ERP, CRM and PLM systems. And if you wish, our solution allows you to visualize complex products in 3D and even configure them interactively.

Optimize your sales process and increase your success with our CPQ software!

EMPOWER YOUR BUSINESS

Seamless system integration for 100% consistent and optimized processes

Inefficient processes, media disruptions and incompatible data can lead to significant time and cost losses. We offer you a solution that solves these challenges and optimizes your business processes: Our CPQ software.

Optimize your IT landscape and increase your efficiency along your entire value chain – right through to production. Our CPQ software offers you the solution.

System integration / interfaces
100% consistency & compatibility

Real-time data exchange with standard APIs

More efficient processes & higher data quality

Improved collaboration & more satisfied customers

Future-proof through flexibility and scalability

Consistency right through to production
Efficiency & error reduction

Faster delivery times

Cost savings & competitive advantages

Precise parts lists

SAE Add-ons

SAE Interactive 3D

SAE CAD Automation

SAE Workflow

SAE Product finder

SAE Analyzer

SAE Offline Client

SAE AI Sales Advisor

ADD-ONS

3D CPQ & much more:
Expand the possibilities of your product

Make your product even more powerful and flexible with our add-ons!

Choose from a wide range of add-ons to customize your product to your individual needs. Let them experience products in 3D, configure them interactively and automate CAD model creation. Optimize your workflows, help customers find the right products with the Product Finder and analyze your product performance. Take advantage of AI support to provide your customers with perfect advice for every configuration. The offline client also gives you maximum flexibility.

Discover the many possibilities of our add-ons and increase the success of your product!

Your benefits
How SAE software makes your everyday life easier

No matter what your goals are – whether you want to master your product complexity, increase your sales success or optimize efficiency in IT and production – our software applications are your key to success. Master every challenge and reach new heights. Experience the incomparable advantages of our solutions and turn your visions into reality.

Product management / development

Our software for your success: from variant management to
portfolio optimization – reduce your time-to-market and
boost your sales.

Sales

Our platform revolutionizes your sales: from managing complex variants to creating error-free quotes – for data-based decisions and more time for your customers.

IT

Our reliable, secure and innovative platform integrates seamlessly into existing systems and impresses with simple administration, high data security and maximum usability.

Production

Our solutions optimize your production: error-free quotations, precise parts lists, seamless system integration – for efficient and smooth production.

Customer references
What customers tell about SAE

Industries
Master your specific challenges

Speed and precision are crucial in your industry. Our software optimizes your business – regardless of your industry. Boost your growth and revolutionize the way you quote. Discover why SAE applications are right for you.

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Know-how Hub
Become an expert

Would you like to learn more about variant management, CPQ and many other topics related to digitalization?
Explore our Expert Hub and become an expert too!

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SAE
The CPQ & complexity management company

For over 25 years, SAE has been the reliable partner for companies worldwide that want to optimize their sales processes. Our innovative CPQ solutions enable efficient configuration, pricing and quotation generation for complex products and services – across all industries and with a track record that speaks for itself.

Our mission

We support companies in exploiting their full sales potential. In doing so, we focus on personal commitment, sustainable action and the highest quality standards. We create success together through long-term partnerships and innovative solutions. Among other things, we have been an SAP® Silver Partner for over 20 years. Find out more about SAE →

Our management

Erich Schaarschmidt and Susanne Henkel manage SAE with the clear goal of supporting companies in optimizing their sales processes.

Dipl. Ing. Erich Schaarschmidt
Gründer & Managing Director

Erich is an expert in digital innovation and uses his knowledge to further develop our variant management and CPQ software in a future-oriented manner. He enthusiastically drives the development of our platform to ensure the long-term success of our customers.

Susanne Henkel
Managing Director

Susanne is passionate about the digitalization of sales processes and wants to make the sale of complex products as simple and successful as possible. She attaches great importance to convincing usability, end-to-end processes and the sustainable use of data.

Much more than software

SAE focuses on quality, sustainability and customer satisfaction. We have been an SAP Silver Partner for more than 20 years. We are certified to ISO 27001 and ISO 14001 and bear the “Software Made in Germany” seal of approval.

SAP Silver Partner
for more than 20 years

EPLAN
Partner network

BCT Technology AG
Partner

SAE Siegel_ISO 27001 & ISO 14001

DIN EN ISO 27001 & DIN EN ISO 14001

Software Made in Germany” seal from BITMi e.V.

Software Hosted in Germany” seal of approval from BITMi e.V.

Code for Sustainability & Digitalization of the BITMi e.V.