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What’s The Real Cost of a Configuration Error? Three Real-Life Examples of High-Price Mistakes

Cincom Smart Selling

A configuration error, like any other error, most certainly comes with a cost. It might be tempting to think that most configuration errors are minor with any resulting cost being minimal assuming that the error is corrected before it becomes a problem. How do you reckon the cost of this error?

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CPQ Is an Organization System

Cincom Smart Selling

Configuration Process. Configuration is determined by needs flowing from the customer’s pain and specifics related to the customer’s requirements. As these needs are identified, specific parts, assemblies and other variables are selected within the configurator to address each individual need. Pricing Process. Quotation Process.

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Five Ways to Measure ROI for a CPQ Solution

Cincom Smart Selling

Product configuration software, by definition, sounds like a great idea. Accurate configurations, errorless pricing and automated quotation and proposal generation; who’s not going to want those things? A one-million-dollar savings in sales rep replacement costs over a 10-year span. What’s not to like?

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ASC 606 Compliance: Choosing a Commission Expensing Solution

The Spiff Blog

Now any costs incurred to obtain and fulfill contracts need to be amortized over the estimated customer lifetime. In today’s blog post we take a look at the four most popular tools organizations use for commission expensing and the functional requirements you should look for when comparing your options. Think about it.

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How Does CPQ Affect Your Back Office?

Cincom Smart Selling

Configure-Price-Quote systems suffer from a degree of misunderstanding. Data required to drive Configure-Price-Quote. This is typically accomplished by walking through a usage questionnaire, which drives the selection of specific parts, options and configurations that will best serve the needs of the customer.

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Boosting Margin with Sales Tools

Cincom Smart Selling

It doesn’t matter if you are a hobbyist selling hand-tooled belt buckles on eBay or if you are a multinational corporation moving million-dollar earthmoving machines, the cost of selling is significant. How much do those cost? Cost control is an important part of almost any successful business strategy.

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CPQ: The Often Overlooked Necessity to CRM

Cincom Smart Selling

You do this by integrating a Configure, Price and Quote (CPQ) solution to your CRM. Commonly, when companies think of CPQ, they think of standardizing the selling process and configuring a product or a service through guided selling methods or engineered-to-order configuration selections. Reduces errors and redundancies.

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