Guiding the deal with CPQ
August 19, 2019
August 19, 2019
The risk of disruption is often what holds back company-wide buy-in of Configure, Price and Quote (CPQ) transformation initiatives. The key to increasing the value case for a CPQ transformation is guiding the deal, not just the configuration. This will significantly improve customer experience and broaden stakeholder buy-in.
Instead of just guiding the solution configuration, CPQ can guide the broader deal across five dimensions: solution, pricing, terms and conditions, supply chain and renewal.
For all these types of guidance to be effective, they need to stay relevant to changing business conditions and specific customer needs; and using AI and rules-based guidance is the best way to assure that. In addition, CPQ guidance often fails when it is over-engineered, presenting users with too many choices; for this reason, the CPQ design needs to be experience led, based on a vision of the customer experience that incorporates the required guidance at the right time without overwhelming the sales team.
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