Size a standard SAP CPQ implementation before the vendor does
For sales-operations and IT teams planning an SAP CPQ implementation who want an independent view of effort and team.
- Engagement type
- Solo Pod
- Experts
- 1 lead · 1 consulted
- Hours
- ~25
- Duration
- 2 weeks
What the client needed
A firm needed the thumb rules for sizing a standard SAP CPQ implementation: how small, medium and large scenarios are defined — workflows, product catalogue, countries, integrations, data scope — how effort is estimated across man-days, duration and phases, and the typical team composition.
The brief
The questions on the table
As the client wrote them, lightly shortened. Client and respondents are not named.
- Q1
What defines a small, medium and large SAP CPQ implementation — workflows, catalogue size, countries, integrations, data scope?
- Q2
How is effort estimated — man-days, duration and phases — for each?
- Q3
What is the typical team composition?
The hours
What the work involved
- 01
Scenario definitions
Small, medium and large on the five drivers, with worked examples from the expert’s three CPQ implementations.
- 02
Effort by phase
Blueprint, design, build, integration, test, go-live and support: man-days and duration per scenario, as ranges.
- 03
Team composition
Roles and levels per scenario, with what sits onshore.
- 04
Cross-check and session
A former regional SAP sales-and-distribution lead checked the integration assumptions; one session with the client.
Deliverables
What the client received
- Scenario definitionsWith worked examples.
- Effort by phaseMan-days and duration per scenario.
- Team compositionPer scenario.
- One sessionWith notes.
The terms
What an engagement like this costs
You buy hours in blocks and can change the expert at the end of any block, at no extra cost. Longer projects run in stages: pause after a block, pick up the next stage when you are ready.
- Rate band
- $65–$250 /hr
- Senior specialists can be up to $500
- Hour blocks
- 1 · 2 · 5 · 10 · 20 · 50 · custom
- This engagement
- Solo Pod · ~25 hours · 2 weeks
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Planning an SAP CPQ roll-out?
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