We are looking for a tool to help our distribution business extract pricing information out of SAP and create online Price Lists (a.k.a., Price Sheets). We have done this in the past by extracting data from SAP pricing tables and formatting various price sheets in Excel. However, spreadsheets are less than ideal. So we are looking at revamping our solution and putting it online. We want to make some of the price lists available online to certain customers.
Before we embark on what could be another internal develop effort to build our own solution, does anyone know of existing vendor solutions that fit this space?
We are not looking for a full-blown Vendavo-like solution for analyzing margin and updating prices in SAP. Right now, the focus is a way to quickly get the price out of SAP and add features that make it easier to analyze price by customer.
Features such as:
- Abililty to quickly search for customer-specific product pricing.
- Ability to pull customer-specific units of measure from SAP. And in some cases, have additional calculated values based on additional units of measure that are not in SAP but needed by sales reps for certain regions and customers.
- Abililty to create additional product descriptions that are meaningful by customer and/or region. Or simplify descriptions and regroup the display by key characteristics.
Ideally, we would not have price lists outside of SAP. And sales folks would simply quote the price as the sales order is written in SAP. Although we have made improvements with a custom sales order transaction in SAP to simplify the process, many folks still prefer to use their external price sheets for speed of order taking and find SAP just too cumbersome.
Thanks in advance.
Rob
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