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Vendavo Price Optimization

Customer expectations are changing. As B2B buyers shop through digital distributors like Amazon, they expect digitally enabled services like custom reporting, omnichannel ordering, and full visibility into distributors’ product inventory.

Vendavo brings more than 20 years of experience serving wholesale distributors, and builds that knowledge and experience into their products and processes. They have a deep understanding of the challenges distributors face, and their solutions are built to help you digitally transform your commercial processes.

Vendavo can help you unify your pricing processes, quote faster, analyze your pricing data better, and drive higher margins despite any disruption or changing market conditions.

Vendavo Pricing and Selling Solutions for Wholesale Distribution

Distributors face ever-changing market conditions, supply chain disruptions, channel diversification, and cost fluctuations that demand business agility. Modernize and digitize your pricing and selling processes with Vendavo to improve profitability, grow revenue, and maintain your position as a top distributor in the industry.

Distribution Challenges

Distributors face many challenges when it comes to pricing:

  • Lack of advanced commercial pricing models to capture customer willingness to pay
  • Limited profit optimization
  • Lack of understanding of perceived customer segment value
  • Increasing margin pressure
  • Managing pricing across complex contractual arrangements is cumbersome

Vendavo Solutions

Vendavo’s solutions for distribution include:

Vendavo Pricepoint: An efficient digital process to support and automate coordinated price setting and administration

Vendavo Deal Optimizer: A software suite that combines advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to help companies segment customers, optimize pricing guidance, and improve profitability.

Vendavo Intelligent CPQ: A configure-price-quote solution that simplifies the quoting process and allows sales teams to quickly create accurate quotes.

Vendavo Profit Analyzer: Descriptive and diagnostic analytics for sales and pricing teams that identify price and margin opportunities for any slice of business

Vendavo Price Optimization: A software suite that combines advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to help companies segment customers, optimize pricing guidance, and improve profitability.

Vendavo Margin Bridge Analyzer: A profitability analysis solution that identifies the drivers of margin and revenue change across multiple dimensions and stakeholders

Vendavo Rebate & Channel Manager: Improve the accuracy of rebate accounting and execution to drive revenue and improve margin.

Distribution Challenges

Selling in distribution has never been easy:

  • Growing competition with ecommerce and Amazon business disruption
  • Meeting new customer expectations for seamless B2B buying experiences
  • Limited digital commerce capabilities
  • Slow time to quote
  • Increasing pricing pressure and commoditization

Vendavo Solutions

Vendavo’s solutions for distribution sales include:

Vendavo Pricepoint: An efficient digital process to support and automate coordinated price setting and administration

Vendavo Deal Optimizer: A software suite that combines advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to help companies segment customers, optimize pricing guidance, and improve profitability.

Vendavo Intelligent CPQ: A configure-price-quote solution that simplifies the quoting process and allows sales teams to quickly create accurate quotes.

Vendavo Profit Analyzer: Descriptive and diagnostic analytics for sales and pricing teams that identify price and margin opportunities for any slice of business

Vendavo Price Optimization: A software suite that combines advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to help companies segment customers, optimize pricing guidance, and improve profitability.

Vendavo Margin Bridge Analyzer: A profitability analysis solution that identifies the drivers of margin and revenue change across multiple dimensions and stakeholders

Vendavo Rebate & Channel Manager: Improve the accuracy of rebate accounting and execution to drive revenue and improve margin.

Distribution Challenges

You face a series of challenges as a leader in distribution:

  • Keeping pace with technology advancements
  • Building relationships directly with customers
  • Lack of value chain digitalization
  • Competing for market share with new and disruptive entrants
  • Meeting the demands of a changing customer base
  • Delivering a consistent and quality customer experience
  • Managing the increasing complexity of the supply chain
  • Limited visibility into profitability and performance

Vendavo Solutions

Vendavo’s solutions for distribution sales include:

Vendavo Pricepoint: An efficient digital process to support and automate coordinated price setting and administration

Vendavo Deal Optimizer: A software suite that combines advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to help companies segment customers, optimize pricing guidance, and improve profitability.

Vendavo Intelligent CPQ: A configure-price-quote solution that simplifies the quoting process and allows sales teams to quickly create accurate quotes.

Vendavo Profit Analyzer: Descriptive and diagnostic analytics for sales and pricing teams that identify price and margin opportunities for any slice of business

Vendavo Price Optimization: A software suite that combines advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to help companies segment customers, optimize pricing guidance, and improve profitability.

Vendavo Margin Bridge Analyzer: A profitability analysis solution that identifies the drivers of margin and revenue change across multiple dimensions and stakeholders

Vendavo Rebate & Channel Manager: Improve the accuracy of rebate accounting and execution to drive revenue and improve margin.

Wholesale Distributor Delivers Accurate Pricing at a National Scale

ABC Supply, a large wholesale distributor of roofing supplies and building products, delivers accurate and competitive pricing to contractors across America with the help of Vendavo.

Price Optimization Features

Overview of feature sets that are important to distributors.

Overall Feature Score

Features for Distribution Pricing 95%

Pricing analytics

Dashboards
Reporting
Drill-downs
Advanced capabilities
Automated Alerting
Price contract analysis

Advanced analytics

Dynamic Pricing
AI Repricing
Machine Learning
Advanced capabilities
Automated Alerting
Sales negotiation suggestions

Integrations

Distribution ERP focus
Pull in data
Two-way Exchange of Data
Modern APIs
Update pricing rules
Price book updates
CRM and sales enablement
E-commerce

Vendavo integrates with a vast array of ERPs and CRMs, including but not limited to: ERP: SAP, Oracle, Infor, Epicor, AS400 Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Sugar CRM and more.

Price Modelling

Profitability analysis
Price forecasting
Promotional models
What-if modelling

Vendavo’s robust suite of solutions includes descriptive and diagnostic analytics that have been derived from 20+ years of experience in the pricing and commercial excellence space. Additionally, Vendavo’s solutions are able to support both price forecasting and what-if (i.e. scenario) modeling of revenue and profitability.

Segmentation

Pricing by product line
Pricing by geography
Pricing by customer segment
Pricing by customer behavior
Segment analysis tool
Segment creation tool

Vendavo’s solutions enable customers to price at any element of the product or customer hierarchy. Additionally, Vendavo Deal Price Optimizer uses AI to create segments as part of the price optimization process. Segments are able to be manually analyzed to ensure accuracy.

Market Pricing

Competitor price tracking
Market Data Analysis

Vendavo frequently ingests third party competitor price tracking and/or market data to assist customers in setting market-relevant prices.

Professional Services

Overview of professional services offerings sets that are important to distributors.

Overall Services Score

Services for Distribution Pricing 95%

Consulting

Outsourced Price Management
Segmentation consulting
Sales and negotiation guidance
Domain expertise of team

Support and Implementation

Cloud / SaaS model
Full service deployment
Live training
Online training system
Online doc/knowledge-base
Support availability

Quality

Reliable, bug-free usage
Overall customer satistfaction
Value for total investment
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