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The Salesforce CPQ Implementation Handbook

By : Madhu Ramanujan
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The Salesforce CPQ Implementation Handbook

By: Madhu Ramanujan

Overview of this book

Salesforce CPQ is innovative software that enables you create better quotes, improve quoting accuracy, and maximize sales and deals. It also provides a quick analysis of profits and losses, helping you improve the overall execution of sales processes, and allows a great deal of flexibility for your prospects, customers, and business partners. The book starts with the Quote-2-Cash business process in Salesforce and shows you how to assess when a business needs to implement CPQ. You’ll then progress to configuring opportunities, quotes, and CPQ products. As you advance, you’ll understand how to define and configure price books, price rules for CPQ quote automation, multidimensional quoting, and more. Next, you'll look at how to configure CPQ guided selling and create package configurations, contracts, and amendments. Later chapters will demonstrate how to perform data migration from a legacy system and the order in which the objects are to be migrated. You’ll also explore CPQ billing and its advantages with the help of different use cases before learning about Industries CPQ and how it is different from standard Salesforce CPQ. Finally, you’ll discover best practices for achieving optimal CPQ performance and avoiding performance bottlenecks. By the end of this Salesforce book, you’ll be able to implement Salesforce CPQ for any business.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Salesforce CPQ Implementation
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Section 2: The Next Stage of the CPQ Journey
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Section 3: Advancing with Salesforce CPQ

Creating product rules

If a customer is buying a printer from your company and your sales rep forgets to add a cartridge, it costs time and energy for everyone involved in the process to buy the right combination of products. This also results in a poor customer experience. In some cases, the rep may not know the actual combination of products, which may lead to incompatible products that are included in a quote. It is difficult for a rep to remember these combinations and rules, especially when a business is selling a lot of products. Salesforce CPQ and its product rules are designed to help the rep get the right products added to the quote the first time.

Admins can work with the business to define these rules for your organization and perform a one-time configuration.

Product rules are derived based on the if/then structure. If a condition is satisfied, then an action will be performed. Product rules allow admins to define advanced configuration logic compared to option...