Quote-to-order (Q2O) System Evaluation Center

What Are Quote-to-order Systems?

Quote-to-order (Q2O) systems focus on quotation management—in other words, the management of product and pricing information for the products and services that a company delivers. Q2O software helps you ensure that all orders conform to specific criteria. Such a platform provides up-to-date product, price, and customer information, as well as the ability to develop a more complete and accurate product offering to meet specific customer requirements on the spot. Q2O software suites can offer sophisticated methods to navigate product content and knowledge to drive customer education. They also allow you to quickly and easily modify product, service, and price information.

Quote-to-order System Business Drivers and Benefits

• Reduce time-consuming quoting and ordering processes from weeks to hours.
• Reduce the need to inform customers that your company cannot live up to your quote.
• An effective system for matching customer needs to available products and services speeds the sales cycle and leads to high-quality customer experiences.

Quote-to-order System Risks

• An inefficient system makes it difficult for a company to enforce its pricing rules for selling products or services in order to optimize the solutions offered to its customers.
• A Q2O system must be able to leverage data in existing applications, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, in order to allow for ease of installment and reduced deployment time.
• A highly scalable architecture is required to support a fast-growing number of quotes per second (QPS). In case of scalability needs, more servers are installed to share the load.

Why Use the Quote-to-order System Evaluation Center?

• Find out which Q2O products meet your criteria for scalability, reliability, flexibility, and ease of use.
• Determine which Q2O applications will allow you to dynamically update product information without stopping the selling process.
• Learn which Q2O systems best assimilate new or upgraded products, revised pricing, and other changes.