Optimizing Sales Processes and Revenue Generation
In today's competitive business landscape, organizations need to streamline their sales processes to achieve optimal efficiency and revenue generation. SAP CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) is a cloud-based solution that helps businesses achieve this goal by providing a centralized platform for managing the entire sales process, from quoting to order fulfillment.
SAP CPQ integrates with various back-end systems, such as SAP ERP, SAP Sales Cloud CRM, SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP Subscription Billing, SAP BRIM, SAP Variant Configuration & Pricing, and S/4 HANA Public & Private Cloud for product master, pricing, credit check, ATP check and other data, to ensure that all sales information is accurate and up-to-date. This integration streamlines the sales process and eliminates the need for manual data entry, which can lead to errors and delays.
SAP CPQ also provides a guided sales process that helps sales representatives walk through each step of the sale, from identifying the customer's needs to creating a quote and closing the deal. This guided process ensures that all sales opportunities are handled consistently and efficiently.
Benefits of SAP CPQ for Back-end Integrations & Sales Journeys
There are many benefits to using SAP CPQ for back-end integrations and sales journeys, including:
- Increased sales efficiency and productivity: SAP CPQ streamlines the sales process and eliminates the need for manual data entry, which can save sales representatives time and increase their productivity.
- Improved quote accuracy: SAP CPQ integrates with product master data to ensure that all quotes are accurate and up-to-date. This can help to reduce errors and improve customer satisfaction.
- Shorter sales cycles: SAP CPQ provides a guided sales process that helps sales representatives close deals more quickly. This can help to shorten sales cycles and improve revenue generation.
- Enhanced customer experience: SAP CPQ provides a self-service portal that allows sales reps, account managers to configure products, request quotes, and track orders. This can help to improve the customer experience and increase customer satisfaction.
SAP CPQ Business Process Flow
The SAP CPQ business process flow typically consists of the following steps:
- Lead capture and qualification: Sales representatives capture leads from various sources, such as marketing campaigns, website inquiries, and referrals. They then qualify these leads to determine if they are a good fit for the company's products or services.
- Opportunity creation: Once a lead is qualified, a sales representative creates an opportunity in SAP CPQ. The opportunity includes information about the customer, their needs, and the potential sales value.
- Solution configuration: The sales representative configures the products or services that meet the customer's needs. SAP CPQ provides a guided configuration process that helps the sales representative select the right products and options.
- Quoting: The sales representative creates a quote in SAP CPQ. The quote includes the pricing for the configured products or services, as well as the terms and conditions of the sale.
- Negotiation and close: The sales representative negotiates the terms of the sale with the customer. Once the terms are agreed upon, the sales representative closes the deal and creates an order in SAP CPQ.
- Order fulfillment: places an order with standard integration to backend ERP, S/4 HANA Cloud, & On-Prem. The next process streamlines the order, which will be fulfilled by the fulfillment team.
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Lead-to-Cash Process
The lead-to-cash process flow consists of the following five sub-processes:
- Contact to Lead – Marketing expert creates a campaign to generate sales leads, and targets existing or new customers via mechanisms such as email, personalized recommendations, and so on. Based on the customer’s consent and interactions, the customer is identified as a potential lead.
- Lead to Opportunity – The lead is qualified, forwarded to sales, and converted to opportunity. Analytic tools can be used to assess the potential of the lead, and identify if the lead is worth pursuing.
- Opportunity to Quote – The sales representative assesses the readiness of the opportunity to be offered a quote. The customer can request a quote on the web store or the sales rep can create the quote for the customer.
- Quote to Order – The quote is presented to the customer and can be negotiated, until a final agreement is reached. Once the quote is accepted by the customer, it gets converted into an order.
- Order to Cash – Based on the different types of items in the order, the order gets split into physical, subscription, and service products, and are sent to the back-end systems for further processing. The sales and service orders are fulfilled by the S/4HANA back-end system. Subscription orders are sent to SAP Subscription Billing system, where they are provisioned. The order status in SAP Commerce is marked as complete, only when all three orders are complete.
Business Process Overview for Cloud
The following overview is explained from end to end: You can read brief descriptions of the process by showing the pointer's direction over them. The description that follows the overview also provides more details. Click the image to maximize the graphic size.
Master Data Integration
Get an overview of the master data flow in the Solution Business for Cloud Deployment process.
The following graphic shows the recommended replication methods:
Business Partner Replication
Sending Application Receiving Application Replication Method Setup Information More Information
| SAP S/4HANA Cloud | SAP CPQ | SAP Master Data Integration and SAP Integration Suite | Scope item 6BV | Integration of SAP CPQ with SAP Master Data Integration |
| SAP Subscription Billing | SAP Master Data Integration or SAP Integration Suite | Scope item 57Z | Replication of Business Partners to SAP Subscription Billing | |
| SAP Entitlement Management | SAP Master Data Integration and SAP Integration Suite | Replication of Business Partners to SAP Entitlement Management | Push Customer to SAP Entitlement Management from S/4HANA Cloud (alternative replication approach without SAP Master Data Integration) |
Product Replication
Sending Application Receiving Application Replication Method Setup Information More Information
| SAP S/4HANA Cloud | SAP CPQ | SAP Integration Suite | ||
| SAP Entitlement Management | SAP Integration Suite | Replicate Product from SAP Subscription Billing to SAP Entitlement Management or Replicate Product from SAP Subscription Billing to SAP Entitlement Management with Timer | ||
SAP Subscription Billing | SAP S/4HANA Cloud | SAP Master Data Integration or SAP Integration Suite | Scope item 57Z | Replication of Products and Rate Elements to SAP S/4HANA Cloud |
Pricing Data Replication
Sending Application Receiving Application Replication Method Setup Information More Information
| SAP S/4HANA Cloud | SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing | Synchronous API call | Pricing for SAP S/4HANA Cloud | SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing for SAP S/4HANA Cloud |
Knowledge Base Replication
Sending Application Receiving Application Replication Method Setup Information More Information
SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Advanced Variant Configuration Model) | SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing | Synchronous API call | Configuration for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Forwarding Configuration Requests to Advanced Variant Configuration | SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing for SAP S/4HANA Cloud |
SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing (Advanced Variant Configuration Model) | SAP CPQ (Configuration Attributes) | Synchronous API call | Variant Configuration Integration | Integrate SAP CPQ with SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing |
Business Process Flow & additional Diagrams :
- Component Diagram: SCD Solution Components
- Solution Business for Hybrid Deployment : Solution Process
- Lead to Cash for Hybrid Deployment : Solution Process
- Data Flow Diagram: DFD Master Data Flows
- Data Flow Diagram: DFD Transactional Data Flows
Solution Process for Lead to Cash for Hybrid Component
Below Solution Value Flow Diagram depicts all supported business activities contributing to the solution process variant.Click on + to expand the Business Process flow
Solution Business Standard Process Flow (SAP CPQ Integration with S/4 HANA Cloud)
Solution Business for Cloud Deployment provides an end-to-end process for managing all aspects of a solution offering. It considers the overall experience, from the initial quoting, over fulfillment to billing, accounting, controlling, and revenue recognition. A corner stone of this sales scenario is the solution order, which allows the bundling of physical goods along with services, projects and subscriptions in one integrated order.
Lead to Cash for Hybrid Deployment: Quote to Order ( SAP CPQ Integration with SAP Commerce Cloud)
Lead to Cash for Hybrid Deployment: Solution Components for Master Data Integration (MDI)
Solution Business for Hybrid Deployment: Overview Process Flow
This flow instructs integration by connecting the quote object in the Quote 2.0 engine in SAP CPQ with the solution quote object in SAP S/4HANA & BRIM (SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management) 
Solution Business for Hybrid Deployment for Master Data flow
Below Solution Data Flow diagram depicts key flows of master and configuration data of the business process variant.
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