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PLM & SAE CPQ – a logical symbiosis

Use PLM data consistently right through to global sales

Use your PLM data sustainably and bring it to sales at the touch of a button – efficiently implement digitalized business processes and create time for innovation! With the combination of PLM & SAE CPQ, you can master the digital transformation with ease and enable your global sales teams to create attractive and correct quotations in seconds, even for the most complex products, machines and systems. Queries from the sales department regarding technical feasibility are reduced to a minimum. The configurator of the SAE CPQ is based on the approved PLM data – these are transferred from your PLM to the SAE CPQ with a single click. Keep your PLM “technical” – to keep your PLM clear, sales-relevant data such as explanatory texts, images and videos can simply be added to the SAE CPQ via drag & drop. Sales-relevant configurations and Solution Finder can also be maintained intuitively and graphically in the SAE CPQ platform via no-code functionality – a clear separation of data maintenance with simultaneous symbiosis of the systems is the success factor for your company. From design, product management and sales to automatic order creation in ERP (e.g. in SAP®) – by connecting your PLM system & SAE CPQ, you create your single source of truth. At the touch of a button, you can connect your PLM data (parts lists, attributes, etc.) with all business-relevant data, such as prices from the ERP (e.g. SAP® S4/HANA) in your SAE CPQ platform and maintain all sales-relevant data quickly and clearly. If that’s not enough and you want to perfectly stage and present your innovative products, you can create your 3D models for an interactive configuration in the digital twin in SAE CPQ with just a few clicks – based on your existing CAD data and SAE CPQ standard functions (no-code). PLM & SAE CPQ – Inspire your customers!

Use your PLM data sustainably and bring it to sales at the touch of a button – efficiently implement digitalized business processes and create time for innovation! With the combination of PLM & SAE CPQ, you can master the digital transformation with ease and enable your global sales teams to create attractive and correct quotations in seconds, even for the most complex products, machines and systems. Queries from the sales department regarding technical feasibility are reduced to a minimum. The configurator of the SAE CPQ is based on the approved PLM data – these are transferred from your PLM to the SAE CPQ with a single click. Keep your PLM “technical” – to keep your PLM clear, sales-relevant data such as explanatory texts, images and videos can simply be added to the SAE CPQ via drag & drop. Sales-relevant configurations and Solution Finder can also be maintained intuitively and graphically in the SAE CPQ platform via no-code functionality – a clear separation of data maintenance with simultaneous symbiosis of the systems is the success factor for your company. From design, product management and sales to automatic order creation in ERP (e.g. in SAP®) – by connecting your PLM system & SAE CPQ, you create your single source of truth. At the touch of a button, you can connect your PLM data (parts lists, attributes, etc.) with all business-relevant data, such as prices from the ERP (e.g. SAP® S4/HANA) in your SAE CPQ platform and maintain all sales-relevant data quickly and clearly. If that’s not enough and you want to perfectly stage and present your innovative products, you can create your 3D models for an interactive configuration in the digital twin in SAE CPQ with just a few clicks – based on your existing CAD data and SAE CPQ standard functions (no-code). PLM & SAE CPQ – Inspire your customers!

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PLM in symbiosis with CPQ – all the advantages at a glance:

  • Digital transformation: Create your single source of truth

  • Highly efficient, consistent & error-free business processes via SAE CPQ standard API

  • Making digitized design and sales expertise available worldwide

  • CTO & ETO: Increase standardization & incorporate customer requirements in a controlled manner

  • Clean separation of data maintenance: maintain sales-relevant data in the SAE CPQ
  • Products interactive in 3D: CAD & PLM data in SAE 3D CPQ (patented system)

  • Rapid preparation of quotations with attractive offer documents and 100% buildability
  • Creating time for innovation

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