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Promotional pricing and trade spend programs are strategic levers for consumer goods manufacturers specifically to meet competitive pressures, stimulate demand, and reward distributors and operators for achieving volume or growth objectives. Implementing, executing, and monitoring such programs, however, is often a complicated, slow, and costly process for all involved channel partners. Trade spends as a percentage of revenue is rising steadily in both foodservice and retail sectors. All of these factors in addition to contract pricing, sales rebates and sales commission programs mean a company's financial performance can be severely impacted without a robust system in place.

Industry Challenges

• Pressure from retailers to create effective programs for the retail channel.
• Increasing complexity of programs for foodservice.
  
• Number of channel partners is increasing with the popularity of redistribution.
  
• Manufacturers are confronted with growing number of deductions from their channel partners/customers due to time lag
  
• Between program structure and implementation.
  
• The administrative time spent on activities is increasing instead of decreasing.
  

Benefits of ACCENTRAN Solution

By leveraging our proven enterprise process and solutions, consumer products manufacturers can:

• Increased revenue tied with promotional and trade spend programs.
  
• Lower operating costs and working capital.
  
• Better manage trade spend payouts.
  
• Reduce administrative overhead costs.