SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing

Variant Configuration and Pricing services on SAP Business Technology Platform

Using cloud services to build applications, configure and price your 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.



Solution Types

Extensions and Add-ons


Works With

Screenshot of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing dashboard menu.

Benefits and Features

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.

Screenshot of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing menu.
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 Pricing service. The service supports price, discount and surcharge calculation, and best price logic.

Screenshot of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing menu.
Screenshot of SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing menu.
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.

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Plans and Pricing

SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing, test tenant
  • In blocks of 1 Tenants per year

  • Contract duration between 3 and 36 Month

See buying conditions 

Features:

  • 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.

  • Data center:

  • Supported languages:

    • English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Italian.

SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing
  • In blocks of 1 Tenants per year

  • Contract duration between 3 and 36 Month

See buying conditions 

Features:

  • 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.
    • One productive tenant is needed per consuming target application

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Data center:

  • Supported languages:

    • English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Italian.
SAP Advanced Variant Configuration and Pricing, add-on for SAP Commerce, access
  • In blocks of 50000 Orders per year

  • Contract duration between 3 and 36 Month

  • Has prerequisites

See buying conditions 

Features:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Minimum quantity:

    • 1 block of 50,000 orders

  • 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.

  • Data center:

SAP Advanced Variant Configuration and Pricing, add-on for SAP CPQ
  • In blocks of 1 Users per year

  • Contract duration between 3 and 36 Month

  • Has prerequisites

See buying conditions 

Features:

  • 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.

  • Data center:

Technical information

Solution Types
  • Extensions and Add-ons

Works With
  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

  • SAP CPQ

  • SAP Commerce Cloud

  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud for advanced variant configuration

  • SAP ERP

Category

Sales

Resources

SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing

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Feature Scope Description

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Pricing service vs. SAP ERP sales pricing

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APIs for SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing

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Neuroth: reinventing itself with advanced ERP

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EXFO: streamlining and automating sales quotes

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Offering fast and simple online product content

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SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing

Watch video

Feature Scope Description

Visit Website

Pricing service vs. SAP ERP sales pricing

Visit Website

APIs for SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing

Visit Website

Neuroth: reinventing itself with advanced ERP

Read PDF

EXFO: streamlining and automating sales quotes

Visit Website

Offering fast and simple online product content

Read PDF

Publisher

SAP
SAP

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