Submit project-based bids & proposals faster and with more confidence

Drive efficiency & continuous learning in your project-based pricing and estimating process by enabling best-practices, mining your historical data in SAP & improving collaboration within your team to respond to RFx’s faster, more accurately and with more confidence. A partner that is a member of SAP’s curated startup ecosystem.

Overview

Improve accuracy of cost estimates

Leverage historical data, rates and powerful estimating algorithms, such as performance history, cost estimating relationships and parametric estimates, to develop accurate top-down vs. bottom-up estimates for labor, material, travel and other direct costs and embed continuous learning.

Reduce effort per proposal

With best practices proposal templates, re-use of prior proposals, workflows/approvals, automated estimating algorithms, and the ability to manage global bids under one roof, even complex bids can be quickly assembled. Versions and what-if scenarios can be quickly created and compared.

Better pricing decisions

Pricing can be automatically created for cost-plus, fixed price or T&M contract types leveraging pricing catalogs, flexible billing rates, volume discounts, customer discounts, etc. Pricing can be adjusted based on PTW targets and risk-adjusted margin calculations to find the optimal price point.

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Details

Solution type

Extensions and Add-ons

Industry

Engineering, Construction, and Operations, Professional Services, Aerospace and Defense

Compatibility

Works with

This product is compatible with or enhances the functionality of these SAP solutions but doesn't require them.
SAP ERPSAP Business Technology PlatformSAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Features

Flexible proposal structures

Create proposals flexibly with structures such as requirements, phases, line items/sub-items, WBS, Pricing, billing plans, risks, response plan, proposal BOMs, & various types of estimates (Labor, Material, Travel, etc.)

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Estimate engineering & services

Estimate labor using a project plan, level of effort, three-point estimates, based on SAP performance history, parametrics (e.g. number of ESLOCs) and CERs (e.g. 10% of engineering effort), bring in cost/billing rates from SAP, & distribute costs based on curves or manual weekly/monthly inputs

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Estimate production & procurement

Easily create or import proposal bills of material (BOM) from your ERP or PLM application incl. similar-to parts. Use powerful MRP-like algorithms to consolidate requirements, estimate cost & calculate confidence from your purchase history, vendor quotes, routing standards, production orders, etc.

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Plans and pricing

All plans include:

Annual subscription for role-based access to proposal cost estimating and pricing suite (iPE)Integration to your SAP S/4HANA or ECC ERP systems, Salesforce, Primavera P6, Project Lifecycle Management (PLM), email and ExcelUse your own data visualization tool (e.g. SAC, Tableau etc.) for reportingHelp-desk (via ticketing system and phone) support and issue resolutionRegular (quarterly) upgrades and service-packsSAP Cloud Platform and/or SAP HANA database license requiredImplementation costs are approximately 1.5 - 2.5x annual subscription