Aeion Pricing for Manufacturing CPQ
Industrial manufacturers selling configurable equipment — pumps, generators, machine tools, vehicles, custom-fabricated systems ($10K-$10M per unit) — live in Salesforce CPQ / Oracle CPQ / Pros / Apttus. Implementations cost $300K-$2M, take 6-18 months, and break with every product update. Aeion Pricing offers a tiered price-book + conditional-discount rule engine at a fraction of the CPQ subscription cost, with ERP sync (SAP Business One, Dynamics 365) via Singularity — plus a visual product-configurator UI, Wasm offline calculation, and Motion Studio 3D visualization, all described in the walkthroughs below.
Why CPQ Is Painful Enough to Be Expensive
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Walkthrough — Industrial Equipment Manufacturer
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Configuration Rule Patterns
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3D Visualization Integration
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Approval + Workflow Integration
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FAQ
Salesforce CPQ is mature, deep, a full visual product configurator, and Salesforce-CRM-integrated. Aeion Pricing pairs a price-list + promotions + conditional-rules engine with a visual configurator, compatibility-matrix builder, and native 3D visualization — all inside one platform. Whether your workflow is "structured discount/tier pricing on a defined catalog" or "build-your-own configurable industrial product," Aeion covers it without the six-figure enterprise implementation.
The product-configurator engine models option groups, compatibility matrices, and dependency trees, layered on top of price-list SKU entries with quantity tiers. Complex industrial configurations with hundreds of interdependent options are the design target.
The pricing engine compiles your rule set into a portable WebAssembly binary that runs directly on a sales rep's iPad or in the customer's browser — quotes resolve locally with no server round-trip. The compiled binary caches in the PWA (IndexedDB) so reps generate quotes fully offline and sync back to CRM on reconnect.
Yes. Price lists support per-currency pricing with per-customer-tag and per-region conditions.
Via Singularity: SAP Business One and Microsoft Dynamics 365 connectors exist today. Oracle ERP and Epicor are not currently supported.
Not a built-in CPQ quote-to-PO pipeline today — you'd build this using Commerce orders + your ERP sync via Singularity.
The Governance module provides a generic policy-based approval engine (conditions, approver chains, escalation, notifications) — it isn't pre-wired to pricing/quote discount thresholds today, but the building blocks exist for a custom integration.
Aeion Content handles page/document templates and branding generally; there isn't a purpose-built CPQ quote-PDF generator (with embedded 3D visualization and per-jurisdiction compliance docs) today.
Not a built-in feature today — this would need a custom integration or manual process.
Yes. Aeion Mobile Builder generates the mobile app shell, and the offline Wasm rule-execution path runs the compiled quoting engine on the device (see the Wasm answer above) — reps configure and quote at the customer site without Wi-Fi.
Yes. Aeion's A/B engine extends to pricing variants: test two price points on different customer segments, and the Wilson Score engine surfaces the winner with a confidence interval and auto-promotes it once statistical significance is reached.
Not a built-in feature today — this would need custom fields/logic on top of the price list and your ERP's manufacturing-capacity data.