Maximize ROI with Trade Promotion Management software

Win with trade promotion management software

Winning trade promotion plans based on actionable insights on performance drivers: that’s what Visualfabriq’s Trade Promotion Master™ brings to leaders in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry. Optimize while planning, and effortlessly combine ex-factory and syndicated actuals to evaluate and enjoy the comfort of an audit-proof approval flow.

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Optimized trade promotion plans

Cost price increases, promotional pressure surges, and consumers who are ever more sensitive to the right trade promotions. It is increasingly hard for CPG manufacturers to win just through promotional investments. In this context, a data-driven approach to rethink trade promotion strategy enables profitable revenue growth. However, a reliance on manual combination and analysis of all available data limits the organization’s ability to invest effectively and efficiently.

Visualfabriq’s Trade Promotion Master™ drives trade promotion management and optimization at its best. It empowers commercial teams to develop optimized trade promotion strategies, based on automated data-driven insights, supported by artificial intelligence (AI). Enjoy uplift insights, tracking against budgets, simplified planning, automated account proposals and the control of an audit-proof workflow. Be ready to drive predictable, long-term revenue growth and profitability.

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The embedded trade promotion optimization software

The Trade Promotion Master combines trade promotion management and trade promotion optimization. Trade promotion management in CPG handles the planning, management, and execution of trade promotions. Trade promotion optimization, meanwhile, aims to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of the promotions.

Visualfabriq combines the two processes into a single workflow: the trade promotion optimization solution is intertwined with planning. Review the predicted outcome of the trade promotion and its effectiveness, create scenarios for alternative mechanisms, and select the most relevant to advance in the process of approval. Or use a proposal generated by zero-touch planning. No need to switch between multiple systems to optimize or wait for a stand-alone optimization run. Visualfabriq drives trade promotion optimization as an integral part of the promotion planning tool. Make decisions faster and save time planning and adjusting.

What’s so exciting?

Run promotions that meet strategic goals

Optimize promotions using embedded AI, create promotions through zero-touch planning, or deep dive using best practice reports.

Pre and Post evaluate based on ex-factory and syndicated data

Seamlessly combine relevant, available data sources to generate internal and account P&L’s to review promotional contribution before and after execution, and act looking forward.

Save time and spend on promotional processing

Plan and approve faster with Visualfabriq’s configurable workflow. Enjoy the control of effortless audit logbook creation. Benefit from integrated claim matching and actualization of promotional volumes and spend.

Include uncertainties in your promotional plan

Be ready for the unexpected with standardized input for risks and opportunities and create scenarios to model your plans. Compare promotional strategies, or review different scenarios for a singular promotion side by side.

Monitor trade promotion spend efficiently

Set budgets and limit trade spend with minimum manual hassle.

Efficient account communication

Remove redundant data transfers to account proposals. Instead, fill account mandated formats with one click.

Game changers for trade promotion management

Enjoy low total costs of ownership

Visualfabriq offers its software as a service (SaaS). All customers use the latest codebase, as maintenance and upgrades are included. This is what true SaaS is. This limited demand on the organization is paired with low implementation and maintenance costs: 100% configuration drives fast deployment and unlimited scaling capabilities allow constant growth of organization and data.

Improve efficiency through seamless data integration

With many relevant data sources, seamless integration of ex-factory data and external data sources (syndicated data, EPoS etc.) is key. Through Visualfabriq’s unique data integration layer Bifrost, customers can control their data independently, driving more trust. The result of this seamless integration? Improved forecast reliability, the certainty that financial actuals are updated promptly, and the ability to create win-win strategies that drive revenue growth for both manufacturer and account.

Save time through removal of repetitive tasks

Manual administration, file generation and audit trails take up too much time in CPG organizations. Advanced automation reduces reliance on manual work and frees up time to take those actions that make the difference.

Remove manual work through advanced master data management

Changes in master data, especially assortment changes, take up much time within CPG organizations. Code switching is cumbersome and manual, having to be managed in demand solutions as well as promotion planning – often multiple times a year. Visualfabriq’s revenue management software features the Product Lifecycle, which handles all product switching and automatically applies it throughout the revenue growth software.

Drive efficiency with data alignment across the organization

The Visualfabriq revenue forecasting and optimization software is created as a single, integrated ecosystem logically connecting the different solutions to the Revenue Plan and each other. This ensures full alignment of data, thus driving a one-number principle throughout organizations. Efficiency to the max, no need to duplicate administration or manually knit data together.

Increase predictability and drive optimization

Visualfabriq features embedded artificial intelligence (AI), driving the ability to create forecasting scenarios and optimize “as you plan.” This makes the results of the trade promotion management software more reliable and drives optimization at all times. Besides embedded sophisticated models, customers can use their own proprietary developed models.

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FAQs

Trade promotion management is the process of planning, managing and executing trade promotions. Usually, the sales team is in the lead, aligning internally with marketing, category, demand and finance teams. As the point of execution often is a store or online seller, accounts are also involved in the process. Trade Promotion management solutions enable sales teams to efficiently plan their promotions, manage approvals and integrate the input into demand forecasts, financial outlooks and ERP systems. Advanced promotion planning tools have integrated trade promotion optimization, meaning that users can pre- and post-evaluate their promotional strategy and improve their plans to drive revenue and profit, often helped by AI.

Trade promotion optimization is the process of continuous improvement of promotional effectiveness and efficiency, driving increased ROI. TPO is a continuous loop: following execution of a promotion, learnings are captured to improve future promotions.

Whilst in the past this was often a manual process, today there is trade promotion management software like Visualfabriq’s to support sales teams. The Trade Promotion Master integrates the data sources that in the past were manually combined, such as ex-factory volumes, syndicated and Electronic Point of Sales (EPoS) data.

Supported by enhanced AI, trade promotion optimisation delivers continuous feedback: when a user creates a new promotion, all learnings from past promotions are used to propose the optimal scenario. Trade promotion optimization solution, therefore, is no longer a standalone process: with Visualfabriq, optimization is available at all time, without effort.

Absolutely! Integration between Visualfabriq and a customer’s ERP system is a standard phase of our deployment approach. As Visualfabriq’s aim is to remove all manual administration, it makes sure that the trade promotion management solution is your one stop shop: plan and approve to trigger a message.

At Visualfabriq the security of client’s data is paramount. Therefore, Visualfabriq is fully certified for:

ISO 27001 – ISO/IEC 27001

SOC 1 – SOC 1SM

SOC 2 – SOC 2

Visualfabriq supports the integration of all ERP systems. Integration works both ways: the platform pulls in master data and sends pricing, conditions and volumes.

Visualfabriq also integrates in-market data: syndicated data (such as Nielsen, IRI), Electronic Point of Sales (EPoS) data. Even weather reports, to explain why your Ice Cream promotion suddenly did much better during the heatwave.

Absolutely! It’s clear that setting thresholds for prices and discounts can be key to maintain a minimum level of profitability. Visualfabriq supports floor price management and can incorporate floor prices in warning messages and approval flows.

Governance and compliance are key in the CPG industry. Every change made in the Trade Promotion Master is fully captured in a logbook. This logbook is available on the platform, to track actions. But rest assured, there won’t be any surprises. The Visualfabiq promotion management tool has a role based workflow. This means that organizations determine themselves who is allowed to perform what action. It is also possible to add approval rules such as thresholds. All to make sure any action on the platform is entirely audit proof.

It definitely does! The Trade Promotion Master fully integrates with the Visualfabriq Claims module.

Of course! Visualfabriq knows there are things that might happen, but that should not be in ERP just yet. However, representation in the revenue forecast is key: an account that threatens to pull a promotion of the calendar, or the chance to have an additional promotion in place. Visualfabriq enables commercial teams to simply capture risks and opportunities and make them visible throughout the software.

Absolutely. The unique Bifrost data integration layer enables customers to both load data to the software and extract reports for use in external solutions.

RSPs are managed centrally in the Visualfabriq software. They can be used throughout the software where relevant.

“Visualfabriq is a forerunner in AI usage for trade management. 80% of a tier one client’s planning is accomplished through new AI capabilities and models.”

Promotion Optimization Institute Analyst | Enterprise Planning Vendor Panorama