Calculate accurate, customer-specific pricing in real time across channels
Learn how SAP Price Staging Hub by Vistex offloads the determination and calculation of pricing from core ERP functions to the cloud, so you can provide more-rapid price quoting, responsive e-commerce shopping, and customer-specific price catalogs efficiently and accurately. Stáhnout dokument
Learn how SAP Price Staging Hub by Vistex offloads the determination and calculation of pricing from core ERP functions to the cloud, so you can provide more-rapid price quoting, responsive e-commerce shopping, and customer-specific price catalogs efficiently and accurately. Simplify quoting, catalog creation, and pricing calculations
Today’s B2B customers want not only immediate access to an infinite assortment of products and
services but also accurate quoting and pricing in real time. However, due to high numbers of SKUs
and customer-specific pricing, ERP systems containing data used to calculate prices can get overloaded.
This slows down quotes, frustrates online buyers, and delays updates to customer purchasing systems.
Calculating prices in real time is also difficult because products and prices
change so frequently today. Just one change of a discount or surcharge can
affect the prices for products in the same family and for a large number of
customers. Pricing logic is also complex, so recreating it in CRM, e-commerce,
bid, quote, and other systems that need pricing is no small task.
The SAP Price Staging Hub solution by Vistex offloads the determination and cal-
culation of pricing from core ERP functions to the cloud. This lets you provide
more-rapid price quoting, responsive e-commerce shopping, and customer-
specific price catalogs efficiently and accurately. No matter how many SKUs and
customers you have as a manufacturer, wholesale distributor, or retailer,
or how complex your pricing schemas are, you can compete with speed and
confidence, even in highly competitive and dynamic markets.
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Solution Quick factsBenefitsObjectives
Today’s B2B customers want not only immediate access to an infinite assortment of products and
services but also accurate quoting and pricing in real time. However, due to high numbers of SKUs
and customer-specific pricing, ERP systems containing data used to calculate prices can get overloaded.
This slows down quotes, frustrates online buyers, and delays updates to customer purchasing systems.
Calculating prices in real time is also difficult because products and prices
change so frequently today. Just one change of a discount or surcharge can
affect the prices for products in the same family and for a large number of
customers. Pricing logic is also complex, so recreating it in CRM, e-commerce,
bid, quote, and other systems that need pricing is no small task.
The SAP Price Staging Hub solution by Vistex offloads the determination and cal-
culation of pricing from core ERP functions to the cloud. This lets you provide
more-rapid price quoting, responsive e-commerce shopping, and customer-
specific price catalogs efficiently and accurately. No matter how many SKUs and
customers you have as a manufacturer, wholesale distributor, or retailer,
or how complex your pricing schemas are, you can compete with speed and
confidence, even in highly competitive and dynamic markets.
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Run a real-time pricing engine in the cloud
SAP Price Staging Hub is a real-time pricing engine that
shields your ERP from frontline-pricing-demand pressures
by moving pricing-related master data and complex calcula-
tion workloads from your ERP to the cloud. It uses this data
to precalculate prices using the same calculating logic as
your ERP, resulting in consistent, more-trustworthy pricing for
use by integrated sales, quoting, and other applications.
Using preconfigured integrations to SAP S/4HANA or the
SAP ERP application, you can select what price-related
information – such as data about customers, business
partners, list prices, discounts, materials, and products –
to send to SAP Price Staging Hub. A central work manager
feature handles the setup, operation, and monitoring of
these integrations as well as the scheduling of recalculations
required by changes. By intelligently choosing the scope
of pricing criteria and the frequency of updates, you can
efficiently achieve near-real-time updates to pricing.
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Quick factsBenefitsSolutionObjectives
SAP Price Staging Hub is a real-time pricing engine that
shields your ERP from frontline-pricing-demand pressures
by moving pricing-related master data and complex calcula-
tion workloads from your ERP to the cloud. It uses this data
to precalculate prices using the same calculating logic as
your ERP, resulting in consistent, more-trustworthy pricing for
use by integrated sales, quoting, and other applications.
Using preconfigured integrations to SAP S/4HANA or the
SAP ERP application, you can select what price-related
information – such as data about customers, business
partners, list prices, discounts, materials, and products –
to send to SAP Price Staging Hub. A central work manager
feature handles the setup, operation, and monitoring of
these integrations as well as the scheduling of recalculations
required by changes. By intelligently choosing the scope
of pricing criteria and the frequency of updates, you can
efficiently achieve near-real-time updates to pricing.
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Enable high-volume price retrieval
Precalculated, accurate, and customer-specific price points,
which can number in the millions and even billions, are
always ready for immediate use in downstream systems
such as CRM, quoting, e-commerce, catalog, and other
applications. This allows customers to receive consistent,
accurate, customized pricing across their various channels
and touch points.
As shown in the figure on the next page, support for
push-and-pull scenarios enables SAP Price Staging Hub
to handle vast numbers of parallel pricing requests by
integrated e-commerce sites, CRM and quoting applica-
tions, and third-party solutions. It also enables ultrafast
quoting and customer-specific catalog creation at scale,
as well as highly responsive e-commerce experiences
for customers.
Now you can deliver rapid-response
pricing data whenever and wherever it’s
needed and quickly create customized
price catalogs for customers.
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Precalculated, accurate, and customer-specific price points,
which can number in the millions and even billions, are
always ready for immediate use in downstream systems
such as CRM, quoting, e-commerce, catalog, and other
applications. This allows customers to receive consistent,
accurate, customized pricing across their various channels
and touch points.
As shown in the figure on the next page, support for
push-and-pull scenarios enables SAP Price Staging Hub
to handle vast numbers of parallel pricing requests by
integrated e-commerce sites, CRM and quoting applica-
tions, and third-party solutions. It also enables ultrafast
quoting and customer-specific catalog creation at scale,
as well as highly responsive e-commerce experiences
for customers.
Now you can deliver rapid-response
pricing data whenever and wherever it’s
needed and quickly create customized
price catalogs for customers.
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Figure: Offloading pricing demand from ERP systems with SAP Price Staging Hub
SAP Price
Staging Hub
Cloud solution, based on
SAP Business Technology Platform
(SAP BTP)
Precalculated prices stored and
ready for high-volume requests
Fresh content, prices, and
calculations updated
ahead of time
Support for push-
and-pull scenarios
More-immediate
and more-accurate
prices
Vast number of
parallel requests
Ultrafast catalog
creation
Customer-specific
pricing
•
•
•
•
•
ERP offloads
pricing
demand to
SAP Price
Staging Hub
ERP sends
fresh content
and price
updates to
SAP Price
Staging Hub
•
•
Customer
pricing
requests
E-commerce
sites
Catalogs
CRM
Third-party
apps
Less demand
on your core
resources
Vastly reduced
impact on
business
performance
Lower total
cost of
ownership
for ERP
Objectives Quick factsBenefitsSolution
Figure: Offloading pricing demand from ERP systems with SAP Price Staging Hub
SAP Price
Staging Hub
Cloud solution, based on
SAP Business Technology Platform
(SAP BTP)
Precalculated prices stored and
ready for high-volume requests
Fresh content, prices, and
calculations updated
ahead of time
Support for push-
and-pull scenarios
More-immediate
and more-accurate
prices
Vast number of
parallel requests
Ultrafast catalog
creation
Customer-specific
pricing
•
•
•
•
•
ERP offloads
pricing
demand to
SAP Price
Staging Hub
ERP sends
fresh content
and price
updates to
SAP Price
Staging Hub
•
•
Customer
pricing
requests
E-commerce
sites
Catalogs
CRM
Third-party
apps
Less demand
on your core
resources
Vastly reduced
impact on
business
performance
Lower total
cost of
ownership
for ERP
Objectives Quick factsBenefitsSolution