3PQ® CONFIGURATION by 4PACE is a comprehensive Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) solution designed to streamline the configuration, pricing, and quoting processes for complex products. Leveraging over 30 years of industry experience, this flexible modular system integrates seamlessly into existing IT infrastructures, enhancing sales efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Key Features and Functionality:
- Product Configuration: Enables both customers and sales teams to configure intricate products accurately, incorporating Configure-to-Order (CTO) workflows and dynamic CPQ processes.
- Product Logic Maintenance: Provides a web-based environment for managing product knowledge, allowing businesses to build and maintain a centralized knowledge base without programming expertise.
- Quotation Creation: Facilitates the management of price lists, currencies, and discounts, and automates the generation of comprehensive quotations, including product datasheets, bills of materials, dimensional drawings, and spare parts lists.
- Flexible Deployment: Offers versatility as a CPQ solution for sales departments or as a self-service system for customers, optimizing sales processes and shifting quotation preparation efforts to the customer.
- ERP, CRM, and PIM Integration: Features standardized interfaces to integrate seamlessly with existing ERP, CRM, and PIM systems, enhancing business process efficiency.
- Engineer-to-Order Support: Transfers configurations to CAD systems like SolidWorks or Inventor, facilitating customized product designs directly into production.
- Calculation and Sizing: Incorporates technical calculations and sizing algorithms to define component requirements before configuration begins.
- Individual Workflows: Maps custom workflows, including discount approvals and customer-specific discount logic, and supports handover processes between customers and sales.
- Modeling and Administration: Allows management of characteristic relationships and selection options directly in the browser, with support for multi-language translations.
- Cloud-Based: Offers a fully cloud-based platform accessible from anywhere without installation, providing flexibility and future-oriented application options.
- Collaborative Configuration: Enables seamless collaboration between sales and customers on projects through centrally stored configurations.
- E-Commerce Ready: Integrates with e-commerce platforms, including shopping carts and product hierarchies, and connects to store systems like Shopware 6 for a continuous customer journey.
Primary Value and User Solutions:
3PQ® CONFIGURATION simplifies the sales of complex products by providing an all-in-one CPQ solution that integrates product configuration, pricing, and quoting into a cohesive system. It addresses challenges such as fragmented product knowledge, manual errors, and inefficient sales processes by offering a centralized, user-friendly platform. The solution enhances collaboration between customers and sales teams, reduces time-to-quote, and ensures accuracy in product configurations and pricing. By integrating with existing IT systems and supporting cloud-based access, it offers flexibility and scalability to meet diverse business needs.
