Quote-to-cash management

With a unified quote-to-cash solution that supports recurring revenue models, you can become a scalable subscription business.
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Accelerated monetization of any business model

SAP solutions for quote-to-cash management can help you meet financial targets
by monetizing products, services, projects, and subscriptions.

  • Sales quotes
    Create fast, accurate, and professional sales quotes.
  • Partner revenue share
    Automate revenue-share calculation and settlement.
  • Entitlement management
    Manage customer rights to use products and services.
  • Billing data
    Collect, validate, and convert data to bill accurately.
  • Subscription management
    Offer recurring options for flexible pricing and billing.
  • Pay per use
    Create offerings based on usage and consumption.
  • Product bundling
    Mix and match products, services, and subscriptions.
  • Everything as a service (XaaS)
    Transform into an XaaS business.
  • Unified billing
    Deliver a unified customer bill with relevant details.
  • Accounts receivables
    Automate invoicing and collections processes.
  • Revenue management
    Run revenue recognition and reporting automatically.
  • Invoice-to-cash management
    Prevent revenue leakage with holistic integration.
Transitioning to service-based models

Five tips for maximizing business value with a subscription-based approach

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Quote-to-cash solutions from SAP

Fast creation of complex quotes

  • Provide an intuitive, guided selling interface that allows your sales team to create accurate sales quotes with complex product configurations and pricing within minutes

  • Create quotes using up-to-date product, price, configuration, and customer data

  • Maximize deal size by adding upsell and cross-sell offerings based on AI recommendations

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Innovative monetization for business growth

  • Increase revenue with customer-centric offers by using billing options, such as subscriptions, pay per use, pay per outcome, auto-replenishment, partner add-ons, and bundles

  • Automate your quote-to-cash process to grow your business efficiently without manual, labor-intensive activities

  • Gain the speed and convenience of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, including fast implementation and ongoing updates

Scalable subscription business operations

  • Generate new revenue streams with personalized offers by using billing options, such as subscriptions, bundles, pay per use, pay per outcome, auto-replenishment, and partner add-ons

  • Automate your quote-to-cash process for accurate customer billing while minimizing revenue leakage

  • Scale your digital capabilities with greater ease to process high volumes of invoices with the flexibility of a single-tenant cloud solution

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Automated accounts receivables

  • Boost cash flow and reduce days sales outstanding (DSO) by automating accounts receivables (AR)

  • Manage cash collection more proactively with a global, unified view of customer receivables and automated dunning

  • Resolve customer disputes faster with workflow and escalation tools

  • Increase invoice-to-payment clearing rates for high volumes of invoices by using AI technologies within SAP Cash Application software

See how customers are succeeding with SAP

Accelerating quote creation for complex products

Take a look at how boiler manufacturer Cleaver-Brooks reduced the time to quote its complex systems from 4 hours to under 15 minutes.

Reimagining business with as-a-service capabilities

Explore Lenovo’s transformative reinvention into an as-a-service technology provider with pay-as-you-go and subscription offerings.

Offering digital subscription services

Learn how biotech company F.Hoffman-La Roche is leading a data-driven industry revolution by automating order-to-cash processes for its new digital offerings.

What are analysts saying?

SAP named a Leader by Gartner®

Explore why Gartner® named SAP as a Leader in its 2024 Magic Quadrant™ report for recurring billing applications.

Explore why Gartner® named SAP as a Leader in its 2023 Magic Quadrant™ report for configure, price and quote application suites.

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Fundamentals

What is subscription management?

Learn about subscription business models and what to look for in a subscription management software.

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Infographic

How to grow your subscription business

Transform into a monetization marvel by building an affordable and scalable foundation for recurring revenue capabilities with SAP Subscription Billing and GROW with SAP.

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Fundamentals

The organizational impact of subscriptions and XaaS

See examples of how sales, finance, marketing, and product development teams should evolve during a company transition toward as-a-service and subscription models.

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Guidebook

Emerging business models innovation

Learn how to innovate with new business models to grow market share, increase customer loyalty, and generate recurring revenue streams.

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Report

Five tips for service-based models

Take a look at how you can maximize your business value by transitioning to subscription- and service-based business models.

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Solution brief

Subscription monetization in a public cloud

Monetize products, services, and subscriptions with greater ease and speed by using SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management solutions in a public cloud environment.

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Report

Shifting from products to service-based business

See how HP has transformed into a product-as-a-service company to generate predictable, recurring revenues with multiple subscription models.

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Blog

SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management bundle

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Blog

Human-centered approach to recurring revenues

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News article

Manufacturers monetize beyond product

Check out how Align Technology and Lenovo partnered with SAP to evolve to subscriptions and as-a-service business models to build customer relationships.

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Blog

The best path to business model transformation

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Blog

The permacrisis: An opportune challenge to rethink your B2C model

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News article

Three market leaders share their service-based journey

Hear HPE, Autodesk, and SAP discuss what it takes to become a service-based business, highlighting options such as subscriptions and everything-as-a-service (XaaS) models.

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Blog

A 2023 toast to subscriptions

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What is quote to cash?

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What is SAP CPQ?

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The rise of the subscription economy

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Subscriptions and other emerging business models

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How to equip businesses to stay ahead of change

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Podcast

The impact of generative AI on quote-to-cash processes

Hear from experts on the impact of AI and generative AI on quote-to-cash processes, including opportunities and challenges in this episode of the “Future of ERP” podcast series.

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Podcast

A path to subscriptions and recurring revenues

Hear about the latest best practices, show-stoppers, and upcoming trends in subscriptions and other recurring revenue models.

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Podcast

How manufacturers fuel growth with as-a-service models

Listen to this discussion on how manufacturers can win business with as-a-service models and how cloud ERP and supply chain solutions can support these initiatives.

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Podcast

Best-of-suite vs. best-of-breed solutions

Discover the differences between best-of-suite and best-of-breed solutions as illustrated by a quote-to-cash process in a company transitioning to subscriptions.

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Video

Monetization opportunities for innovative offerings

Get in front of ever-changing market challenges and customer demands by using subscriptions, usage plans, bundles, and other innovative offerings with greater ease and speed.

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*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Recurring Billing Applications, Mark Lewis, Robert Anderson, 6 August 2024.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Configure, Price and Quote Applications, Mark Lewis, Dayna Radbill, 11 December 2023.

 

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