This whitepaper presents a case study of the datacenter solution configuration problem, focusing on assisted physical device placement in an eCommerce scenario and illustrates the challenges of implementing both constraint satisfaction and optimization techniques using SAP Internet Pricing and Configurator (IPC).

No one would pull a heavy payload with a vehicle designed for speed. Yet configurable product value chains are doing much the same thing when they focus on efficiency rather than translating market needs into plant requirements. In these businesses, configuration is as important to the quote-to-cash process as a transmission is to an engine.   by Jane Barrett, Regina Denman, and Michael Burkett Industry Value