Combine continuous learning and similar work from the past, with industry best practices, and tailored engineering solutions - to effectively develop the scope and work breakdown structure (WBS) for your project. Now with true Project-based CPQ.
Search & Re-Use
​Quickly find and reuse previous proposals, project history, and your company's extensive library of templates.
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Understand Cost Drivers
Transform customer requirements into work packages - such as system engineering, software, or manufacturing - for a comprehensive overview.
Best Practices
Drive best practices - such as productized services, configurable products, or Q&A based estimating - in your organization.
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Material/Service
BOM
Combine engineering inputs with PLM and ERP data to create proposal-specific bill of material (BOMs), service BOMs and indented product configurations.
Collaboration
Collaborate with subject matter experts worldwide to divide, track, approve, and consolidate various estimates seamlessly.
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AI Co-pilot
Our AI co-pilot automatically generates task breakdowns (WBS) and suggested schedules, streamlining your planning process.
Re-Think Scope Development
Build a Library of
Best Practices
Effortlessly transform proposals and previous projects into a library of templates that can be combined to create new proposals tailored to your needs. Our intelligent solution automatically dissects, reschedules, and reassigns templates, prior proposals and prior project actuals to new locations while recalculating costs and inflation factors. This approach streamlines the proposal creation process and saves time while incorporating the most accurate and relevant information into each new proposal.
Build up your Project Knowledge Base
With every project you deliver, meticulously capture time-clock and time-card data to establish a robust knowledge base of prior performance history. Continuously enrich and reuse this information to inform future estimates and enhance accuracy and consistency across projects. This systematic approach not only helps refine your estimating processes but also empowers your team to make well-informed decisions and drives productivity, efficiency and success.
Connect People Around a Single Source of Truth
Connecting people around a single source of truth and incorporating workflow processes are crucial when scoping and estimating a project. This approach ensures that all team members access consistent, accurate information, fostering collaboration and reducing misunderstandings. Streamlined workflows guides you through each phase, maintains accountability, and promotes communication. Ultimately, this allows for informed decisions, optimized resource allocation, and more project success.
Top Down Planning to set Yourself up for Success
Adopting a top-down planning approach that incorporates "Price to Win" and "Design to Cost" strategies is vital when scoping and estimating a project. This method aligns the project's objectives with budget constraints and client expectations, ensuring competitiveness in the market. By focusing on these strategies, teams can identify cost-saving opportunities and risks to deliver the highest-quality project possible.
Support Capital Investment Strategies
Gain insights to help executives refine their investment decisions based on detailed estimates of what it takes to upgrade assets, implement transformations and implement capital projects. Compare competing initiatives and allocate budgets between portfolios, project groups and organizational units.
Designed on SAP HANA for Organizations Running SAP
Our solution takes full advantage of SAP's robust HANA database. It is natively integrated with your CRM and SAP S/4 system to re-use master data already maintained in SAP, such as resource pools, BOMs, materials, routings, suppliers, customers, etc. At the same time, we leverage and reference your rich transaction history sitting in SAP, such as supplier quotes, contracts, purchase orders and work orders, to anchor estimates in reality.
Most long-time SAP customers have non-SAP data sources critical for the bid & proposal process, such as DOORS, Primavera, PLM, MS-Dynamics and Salesforce. Don't worry; we've got you covered. We can even import data from non-SAP ERP systems, and from Excel.
We have added flexibility to fit your specific landscape and security requirements regarding deployment. We support several deployment scenarios - such as directly in your S/4 HANA instance, in a self-hosted HANA sidecar, or from the cloud - secure, scalable and compliant.