Tacton CPQ

About Tacton CPQ
With Tacton CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote), B2B manufacturers can maintain and sell highly customizable products as if they were standard. Our award-winning configuration and pricing engine, allows you to control your custom product’s thousands of parts and commercial rules with small set of constraint, generating millions of valid, builable and profitable product variants.
With needs-based configuration, instant pricing for every configurator selection, real-time 3D product visualization and automatic generation of CAD files, your sales reps will be able to define, price and order complex and custom products, without sales engineering support. Let your sales engineers innovate your products and let your sales reps talk value with your customer.
With Tacton’s omni-channel capabilities, you can offer Configuration, Pricing and Quoting of your products not only to direct sales, but also to resellers and end customer in self-service and eCommerce channels. This radically boosts your sales capabilities.
With Tacton’s rich APIs and integrations, data from PLM, ERP, CAD and CRM can be leveraged in Tacton CPQ to remove your data silos. Use our analytics API to use the transaction data created in Tacton CPQ to create actionable business insights in your preferred Business Intelligence tools.
In contrast to other CPQs, Tacton can handle highly complex and customizable industrial equipment. With Tacton’s attribute constraints, your product engineering team will be able to express and maintain all the logic of your product variance, separating valid from invalid product configurations. Our out-of-the-box and easy-to-use configurator, empowers sales rep, resellers and even end-customers themselves to define highly customized and error-free equipment – without involvement of sales engineering.
With Tacton CPQ you will increase revenue, increase sales velocity, decrease sales costs and decrease costs of order errors and warranties. Sell with certainty – quote with confidence. In Gartner's Magic Quadrant for CPQ, Tacton has been recognized as a “Visionary” in three consecutive years.
Tacton provides solutions to our global customers such as ABB, Bosch, Caterpillar, Daimler, MAN, Mitsubishi, Siemens, Toshiba and Yaskawa. Tacton is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and Stockholm, Sweden, with regional offices in Karlsruhe, Germany, Warsaw, Poland, and Tokyo, Japan.
Key benefits of Tacton CPQ
With Tacton CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote), B2B manufacturers can maintain and sell highly customizable products as if they were standard. With Tacton CPQ you will increase revenue, increase sales velocity, decrease sales costs and decrease costs of order errors and warranties. Sell with certainty – quote with confidence.
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- Industry: Industrial Automation
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A Powerful Sales Tool
Reviewed on 2019/12/16
My company is not using CPQ yet, mostly because of budget and resource issues. We are also waiting...
My company is not using CPQ yet, mostly because of budget and resource issues. We are also waiting for all company divisions to be ready for the switch, and we are planning to link Tacton to Salesforce and SAP. All of this means that the project is quite slow, so it is still in the planning stages. That being said, Tacton has provides us with a test environment, and some structures and processes are already implemented there. The new interface looks sleek and modern, and it looks like CPQ will deliver all of our complicated requirements. We are eagerly awaiting the day that we can go live with the new system. It will be one of the first IT systems used across the entire company.
Pros
I like the straightforward and open programming of the tool. It means that administrators need to do lots of planning and documentation upfront, but it makes the system extremely customizable and tailored to the company's individual needs without having to pay external programmers for every change.
Cons
The open programming means that the administrators have to know what they are doing, even more so than with "standard" database administration. This isn't a fault of the Tacton team, it's just a result of the Tacon CPQ administration strategy.
Response from Tacton
Brett,
Thanks for taking the time to review Tacton CPQ and sorry for delayed response. I was curious to know how your implementation project of Tacton CPQ evolved and how administrators and end users currently experience our software. Looking forward to see an updated review!
If you want to track how Tacton CPQ improves, I recommend subscribing to our popular weekly product update videos here: https://www.tacton.com/services/product-updates/?wchannelid=5dmw8g4g7i
/Per Rohdin
Senior Product Marketing Manager
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Good Software and Adminstration platform
Reviewed on 2019/12/04
Pros
The administration for the software is nice to use and easy to load tickets into production.
The front end of the system where users are using has saved lots of time for users, and the flow is nice. Sometimes there are too many options but we have to break them down
Cons
Sometimes 2 people can work on the same ticket, without knowing or being checked out.
There needs to be tight control on which elements are being working on
Reasons for Switching to Tacton CPQ
The overall software package met the business needs and the ease of use on putting the data onto the system has helped define the business processes
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
FLSmidth programmer review
Reviewed on 2020/01/08
Overall i think CPQ is good, and have many good functionalities such as pricing models, automatic...
Overall i think CPQ is good, and have many good functionalities such as pricing models, automatic proposal generation and paramteric 3D view inside the configuration. However the UI needs to be changed. I would recommend that you find a group of people, that have never used the software before, and let them tell you about the experience.
Pros
I like the way that the prices are shown after you make the configuration. Also that you can control which pricing features that is visible for the user.
Cons
I think the UI is very confusing. We have many complains about it from our users. Also that you can't modify it to fit specific UI needs is bad.
Response from Tacton
Peter,
Thanks for taking the time to review Tacton CPQ and sorry for delayed response. Instant pricing after every configuration selection is one of our differentiating features and I am happy you appreciate it.
UI: we have listened to our customer's feedback on our configurator UI and during 2021 we have continuously improved the flexibility and look-and-feel. To mention a few:
- Config sidebars can be hidden/shown depending on task
-More layout options in View Designer regarding how fields and groups are shown on page
-Rich text for long description fields
-Better navigation across steps
-Save & Finish configuration from any step (no need to go to results)
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If you do not see these improvements in your Tacton CPQ, please reach out to your CPQ responsible in FLSmidth to activate/enable them.
You can subscribe to our popular weekly product update videos here: https://www.tacton.com/services/product-updates/?wchannelid=5dmw8g4g7i
/Per Rohdin
Senior Product Marketing Manager
- Industry: Machinery
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Tacton CPQ day to day
Reviewed on 2019/12/16
We are calculating our complex pricing with Tacton CPQ, coming from Tacton Modelling, and this...
We are calculating our complex pricing with Tacton CPQ, coming from Tacton Modelling, and this works very well and simplified many things without simplifying our pricing structure too much.
Pros
It is clear, you have a good search function, lot's of customization possible. It is quick to use, easy to deploy new versions and release changes.
The handling of our complex pricing works rather well and the amount of data is no problem.
Cons
We use it combined with salesforce, and this works, but is an integration, and not really part of salesforce (yet). And we cannot use the same ticket for releasing to production and test.
I like Excel, but I have to get used to the idea of using excel as part of core software.
Multi user and excel is not the best.
Response from Tacton
Thanks for taking the time to review Tacton CPQ and sorry for delayed response.
Ticketing: As of now, any ticket created in Tacton Administration can be released to any of your Connected Environments.
Excel: Tacton Administration tries to combine the best of Excel's data manipulation capabilities with a collaborative SaaS environment. I strongly recommend trying out our Desktop Connector which allows you to use Excel to manipulate data directly to the database in your ticket. To learn more, enter your Tacton Administration and go to Help center and search for "Desktop Connector".
Looking forward to see more reviews from you.
If you want to track how Tacton CPQ improves, I recommend subscribing to our popular weekly product update videos here: https://www.tacton.com/services/product-updates/?wchannelid=5dmw8g4g7i
/Per Rohdin
Senior Product Marketing Manager
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
It is a powerful rules based configurator for solving, simple to complex problems
Reviewed on 2019/12/09
Initially we started using this configurator for Proposal purposes, later we have expanded the...
Initially we started using this configurator for Proposal purposes, later we have expanded the configurator for doing the order work as well (complete supply chain activities incl. ERP integration). Now we are using the complete end to end solution to support the CTO (configure to order) process.
It really helped us in saving lot of lead time in proposal generation and in order processing.
Pros
This configurator is a very user friendly configurator. We need not to learn any special coding/language to write the programs in Tacton. It is very helpful for solving the rule based problems very quickly.
It is also very easy to integrate with external calculation programs like MathCAD, STAAD, Fortran, etc,
It mainly supports the end to end supply chain activities.
Cons
The configurator can be improved in iterative calculations like goal seek function and loop calculations.
Even though we can do this in the current version using JavaScript, it would be nice to have this feature in Tacton function itself.
Few improvements can be done on the User Interface, to make it more user friendly for the end user.
Tacton CPQ FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Tacton CPQ.Q. What type of pricing plans does Tacton CPQ offer?
Tacton CPQ offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
Contact Tacton for pricing details.
Q. Who are the typical users of Tacton CPQ?
Tacton CPQ has the following typical customers:
201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Tacton CPQ support?
Tacton CPQ supports the following languages:
English, German, Japanese
Q. Does Tacton CPQ support mobile devices?
Tacton CPQ supports the following devices:
iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Tacton CPQ integrate with?
Tacton CPQ integrates with the following applications:
Intershop, Microsoft Dynamic 365 CRM (JourneyTEAM - Reseller), Salesforce CPQ & Billing, Salesforce Sales Cloud
Q. What level of support does Tacton CPQ offer?
Tacton CPQ offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep)
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