Shentel

Elevate Revenue and Customer Satisfaction with Salesforce

ArganoaMind Implementation Services transform pricing through faster cost-based pricing, improved quote flow and automated renewals.

Shentel Success PDF

Transforming Businesses Around the World Through CPQ & Billing Since 2005



Background


Industry: Telecom
Headquarters: Edinburg, Virginia
Founded: 1902
Annual Revenue: $246.5m (2017)
Employees: 1,200
Salesforce CPQ

CPQ Challenges


CPQ System

Swivel chair quoting from multiple sources.
Disparate quoting and contracting processes.
Revenue leakage due to poor renewal processes.

Pricing and Quote

Inability to price accurately without engineering input.
Unable to properly capture internal cost metrics.
Desire to incorporate ROI, IRR, NPV, and payback period.

Pricing & Approvals Control

Inconsistent quoting with proper approvals.

“I have had the pleasure to team up with the ArganoaMind team to develop a thorough and logical CPQ system architecture. As expert consultants in the telecommunications field it is imperative that we partner with experts like ArganoaMind. They have shown they understand telecom and the intricacies that drive unique CPQ requirements.

– Todd Rismiller, President Exactpoint Technologies (lead consulting advisor to Shentel)

Solution

Salesforce CPQ


CPQ

Quote Proposals
Approvals
Contracts

Channels

Internal Sales


Countries

North America


Integration

DocuSign

Salesforce CPQ Software

Opportunity-to-contract for Collaborative Selling
Configurable Product Bundles

Configurable product bundles along with fixed/simple bundles and standalone products.

Lookup Based Price Rules

For price, cost and margin calculation and summation on the quote.

Quote Calculator Plugin

The quote calculator plugin aggregates financial calculations at bundle and quote line group levels.

Term and Quantity-based Discount Schedules

Standard pricing discounts offered based on term and quantity discount schedules.


Advanced Approvals

Introduction of advanced approvals for engineering, sales, and finance approval chains.

Native Quote Templates

Generation of customer-facing and internal documents against approved quotes.

DocuSign

Shentel now uses DocuSign to send proposals to customers for electronic signature, with counter-signature.

Contract-based Amendments and Renewals

The ArganoaMind team’s experience delivering CPQ & Billing solutions to telco’s globally really shone through – they quickly understood the challenges telco’s face and knew how to rapidly shape the solution. This drove confidence with the entire Shentel team and enabled the solution to be delivering without any hiccups!

– Jordan Bixler, Salesforce Account Executive

CPQ Results

Account Executives

Account executives create quotes for one or more service locations, apply discounts and adjust margins, and present proposals to customers for acceptance via electronic signature.

Sales Engineers

Sales engineers augment off-net quotes with build-out and installation information.

Finance Managers

Finance managers review and approve quotes based on financial metrics calculated over a specific threshold.


Engineer Managers

Engineer managers review and approve quotes by looking at capital expenditure criteria based on build-out and installation costs.

Sales Managers

Sales managers review and approve quotes based on financial metrics calculated by the system using a combination of commercial/pricing and cost/engineering inputs.

Operations

Operations extracts data for accepted quotes and close won opportunities out of the system for leading into downstream ordering and billing systems.


ArganoaMind brought an “A team“ with deep platform and industry expertise to implement Salesforce CPQ. Phase 1 of our project has been highly valuable with a real and tangible ROI. We look forward to a continued partnership.

– Craig Venable, Director, Commercial Sales
Why ArganoaMind?

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IMPLEMENTATION SERVICES

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METHODOLOGY

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METHODOLOGY

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“A“ MIND PEOPLE

Secret to Success

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