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- New REST API for Managing Products
- Editability of Cost in Quote 2.0
- VCPS Integration Improvements
- Business Partner Standard Fields UX improvements
- Quote Custom Sections
- Alternative & Variant Item Types
- Multilevel Products Change Processes (BRIM)
- Add SubItem Improvement
- Quote Fields and Calculations Page
...and much more! So let's dig in!
New REST API for Managing Products
Starting 2502 CPQ admins can synchronize products using the new REST API with improved performance and a new bulk endpoint. The ProductIntegration REST API supports all that was supported in previous SOAP versions and much more.
Check out swagger for this API. Documentation is published in help as well.
Editability of Cost in Quote 2.0
We recognize how critical it is for our customers to manage standard cost values dynamically. With this release, the cost column in Quote 2.0 can now be scripted, unlocking new opportunities for advanced integration scenarios.
VCPS Integration Improvements
Backend characteristics that have dynamic domain are now represented in CPQ I na more intuitive way as their original data type persisted.
Knowledge base synchronization process is enchased to allow deleting obsolete KB data and corresponding product and product versions in CPQ.
Business Partner Standard Fields UX improvements
While it was possible to define editability and visibility for business partner custom fields all standard fields were both visible and editable. Business partners area covered with responsive templates recently, but still overall idea is to move towards configurations rather than customizations.
Under Setup -> Business Partners -> Business Partner Fields, CPQ admins now can:
- Define which fields are visible for different user types and/or permission groups
- Define which fields are editable for different user types and/or permission groups
Read more on this in help page for Business Partners.
Quote Custom Sections
Admins can now create sections on Quote tabs in Quote 2.0 to logically group custom fields and quote tables based on business needs. Rather than customizing templates CPQ admin can leverage out of the box capability to configure sections in quote, decide on which tab to show that section and assign quote custom fields and quote tables to them.
Just navigate to Setup Quotes Fields, Calculations, Layout Custom Sections and select Add New option to get to this page:
At any point in time content of the section can be reordered using drag and drop.
What is still not possible is to move standard fields to custom sections and vice versa but if this is something you would appreciate, please do not hesitate to let us know in the comments.
More details can be found in this help page,
Alternative & Variant Item Types
In Quote 2.0 since a while have base and optional item types but to ease migration of existing Quote 1.0 customers where we also had additional item types in this release, we are bringing to the new quoting engine:
- Alternative Item type
- Variant Item type
Item types can be set on root items and are properly handled not to contribute to quote totals. Read here how to enable new item types in SAP CPQ.
Multilevel Products Change Processes (BRIM)
Customers selling multilevel solutions using SAP CPQ and SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management.
Supported scenarios:
Add SubItem Improvement
The Add SubItem action allows users to include sub-items under a parent product within the quote. This feature is useful when managing complex configurations or bundles that require hierarchical structures.
Check out detailed documentation how to enable this awesome functionality.
Quote Fields and Calculations Page
Management of quote item custom fields is now moved to Quote 2.0 specific section in setup “Fields, Calculation, Layout”
In case you observed that implementing some feature is missing please share your request with us using SAP Customer Influence portal
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