Variant Configuration and Pricing services on SAP Business Technology Platform
Using cloud services to build applications that enable users to configure and price products accurately and efficiently. Leverage your knowledge of SAP variant configuration and sales pricing to model your products and pricing rules once in the back end to use them everywhere.
Overview
Model once, configure everywhere
Let your sales teams, customers, and channel partners configure your products interactively. Leverage your knowledge of SAP variant configuration to model your products and use them everywhere.
Get consistent pricing results across all channels
Let your sales teams, customers, and channel partners price your products accurately and efficiently. Leverage your knowledge of SAP sales pricing to model your pricing rules as pricing procedures and use them everywhere.
Use the dashboard for data replication
Manage the connection to your back end, and trigger and monitor the data replication. Provide fast initial data replication for scenarios such as having huge pricing data sets. Have delta replication for price and product model changes.
Details
Solution type
Extensions and Add-ons
Industry
Automotive
Compatibility
Works with
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- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
- SAP CPQ
- SAP Commerce Cloud
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, advanced variant configuration
- SAP ERP
Features
Simple and multi-level configuration
Use classical or advanced variant configuration in SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA to define your product model with all its materials in a bill of materials, classes and characteristics, and the dependencies between the characteristic values.
Pricing of configurable and non-configurable items
Price calculation is based on the condition technique and pricing procedures maintained in SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA. The pricing model is replicated to the Pricing service. The service supports price, discount and surcharge calculation, and best price logic.
Data replication and administration application
Manage the connection to your back end, and trigger and monitor the data replication. Inspect the replicated knowledge bases and pricing procedures. Enable and download engine traces for the Variant Configuration and Pricing services.
Integrations with SAP Commerce Cloud and SAP CPQ
Make use of the prepared integrations of the Variant Configuration service and the Pricing service in SAP Commerce Cloud and SAP CPQ to ensure consistent results across all those channels.
Plans and pricing
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Included:
- Variant Configuration service to configure your SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA products interactively in the cloud.
- Pricing service to calculate prices for configurable and non-configurable products.
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Metric:
- This service is priced by "tenants" per year. A tenant means a customer-specific instance of the cloud service.
- One tenant is needed per connected back-end client.
- One productive tenant is needed per consuming target application
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Plan description:
- Productive, full-use version for variant configuration and pricing services.
- Get test tenant(s) for variant configuration and pricing services separately.
- The services bought here cannot be used with SAP Commerce Cloud or SAP CPQ.
- Please request a quote or contact your SAP sales representative for such integrations.
-
Prerequisites:
- SAP on-premise back end with an appropriate third-party database license that allows direct database access for data replication.
- For further details and more information about interoperability and maintenance rules for Data Provisioning (DP) Agent, see SAP Note 2546811.
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Payment methods:
- Payment by invoice is supported for all countries.
- Click on the “Buy now” button to find out if payment by credit card is supported in your country.
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Contract duration details:
- The yearly price and quantity are pro-rated per month for contract durations that are less than a year.
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Data center:
- For all information related to data center availability and regions, visit the Feature Scope Description.
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Supported languages:
- English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Italian.
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Included:
- Variant Configuration service to configure your SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA products interactively in the cloud.
- Pricing service to calculate prices for configurable and non-configurable products.
-
Metric:
- This service is priced by "tenants" per year. A tenant means a customer-specific instance of the cloud service.
- One tenant is needed per connected back-end client.
-
Plan description:
- Non-productive tenant of variant configuration and pricing services for development and test purposes only.
- Get productive tenant(s) for variant configuration and pricing services separately.
- The services bought here cannot be used with SAP Commerce Cloud or SAP CPQ.
- Please request a quote or contact your SAP sales representative for such integrations.
- Partners shall acquire test and demo tenants through the SAP Partner Portal.
-
Prerequisites:
- SAP on-premise back end with an appropriate third-party database license that allows direct database access for data replication.
- For further details and more information about interoperability and maintenance rules for Data Provisioning (DP) Agent, see SAP Note 2546811.
-
Payment methods:
- Payment by invoice is supported for all countries.
- Click on the “Buy now” button to find out if payment by credit card is supported in your country.
-
Contract duration details:
- The yearly price and quantity are pro-rated per month for contract durations that are less than a year.
-
Data center:
- For all information related to data center availability and regions, visit the Feature Scope Description.
-
Supported languages:
- English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Italian.
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Plan description:
- This is a non-productive and non-commercial tenant for test and demo purposes only (check out Use Rights).
- This edition is exclusively available for partners.
- The services bought here can be used with SAP Commerce Cloud or SAP CPQ, which were also purchased via corresponding cloud test and demo licenses.
-
Included:
- Variant Configuration service to configure your SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA products interactively in the cloud.
- Pricing service to calculate prices for configurable and non-configurable products.
-
Metric:
- This service is priced by "tenants" per year. A tenant means a customer-specific instance of the cloud service.
- One tenant is needed per connected back-end client.
-
Prerequisites:
- SAP on-premise back end with an appropriate third-party database license that allows direct database access for data replication.
- For further details and more information about interoperability and maintenance rules for Data Provisioning (DP) Agent, see SAP Note 2546811.
-
Contract duration details:
- The yearly price and quantity are pro-rated per month for contract durations that are less than a year.
-
Payment method:
- Invoice is supported for all countries.
- Click on the “Configure to see price” button to find out if credit card is supported in your country.
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Included:
- Enables the integration of SAP Commerce Cloud with SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing and SAP Intelligent Product Recommendation.
- Variant Configuration service to configure your SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA products interactively in the cloud.
- Pricing service to calculate prices for products and chosen options during product configuration.
- SAP Intelligent Product Recommendation to use machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models to recommend the optimal product.
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Metric:
- This service is priced by "orders" per year.
- In blocks of 50,000 orders.
- Order is each individual sales and service order data object managed via the Cloud Service.
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Minimum quantity:
- 1 block of 50,000 orders
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Prerequisites:
- License for SAP Commerce Cloud, composable edition or SAP Commerce Cloud, premier edition.
- SAP on-premise back end with an appropriate third-party database license that allows direct database access for data replication.
- For further details and more information about interoperability and maintenance rules for Data Provisioning (DP) Agent, see SAP Note 2546811.
-
Contract duration details:
- The yearly price and quantity are pro-rated per month for contract durations that are less than a year.
-
Price upon request:
- Pricing structure and contract duration details are available on request.
-
Data center:
- For all information related to data center availability and regions, visit the Feature Scope Description.
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Included:
- Enables the integration of SAP CPQ with SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing and SAP Intelligent Product Recommendation.
- Variant Configuration service to configure your SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA products interactively in the cloud.
- Pricing service to calculate prices for configurable and non-configurable products.
- SAP Intelligent Product Recommendation to use machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models to recommend the optimal product.
-
Metric:
- This service is priced by "users" per year.
- User is any individual authorized to access the cloud service.
-
Minimum quantity:
- 50 users.
- Number of users as ordered for SAP CPQ, standard edition.
-
Prerequisites:
- License for SAP CPQ, standard edition.
- SAP on-premise back end with an appropriate third-party database license that allows direct database access for data replication.
- For further details and more information about interoperability and maintenance rules for Data Provisioning (DP) Agent, see SAP Note 2546811.
-
Contract duration details:
- The yearly price and quantity are pro-rated per month for contract durations that are less than a year.
-
Price upon request:
- Pricing structure and contract duration details are available on request.
-
Data center:
- For all information related to data center availability and regions, visit the Feature Scope Description.
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