SAP CPQ

What the Retract Approval Process action in SAP CPQ actually does, when you need it, and the traps that catch people after they resubmit a quote.

Which tag reference actually applies to your quote engine, how to choose a tag by what you are printing, and why a tag prints itself instead of a value.

The endpoints that actually work on Quote 2.0, why creating a quote takes more than one call, and the SAP CPQ API errors that point away from their own cause.

SAP CPQ 2609 went live on September 12 with three improvements and twelve fixes. Here is what changed for migration, Sales Area and pricing, and what to prepare for 2611.

Generic CPQ templates ask vendors to describe features. If you already run SAP, the document is really about your own landscape, and about the clauses that get expensive after signature.

Published estimates for an SAP CPQ implementation run from eight weeks to nine months, and none of them say what scope they measure. Here are the gates that actually move the date, most of them published and dated by SAP.

Salesforce CPQ is in an end of sale phase, which changes what this comparison is really about. A look at where the two products put configuration and pricing logic, what SAP documents about integrating with S/4HANA, and how to decide when your landscape already runs both.

The usual ways of checking a partner do not work for SAP CPQ: the Partner Finder has no CPQ filter and the certification is gone from the active catalogue. Here are the questions that replace them, and how to grade the answers.