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What is a B2B Pricing Strategy?

What is a B2B Pricing Strategy?

Pricing Is the Most Effective Profitability LeverThe past three years have been marked by extraordinary economic upheaval, with inflation surging due to pandemic-related production cuts, supply chain issues, and rising demand as economies reopened. Geopolitical conflict further intens...

Pricing Software: What it is and How it Works

Pricing Software: What it is and How it Works

What is Pricing Software?B2B pricing software helps businesses analyze, manage, optimize and execute their prices. It first emerged in the late 1990s and has since been used by many manufacturing, distribution, and industrial services companies.Today, many pricing engines use dynamic pricing machine...

How Competitive Pricing Fuels a B2B eCommerce Strategy

How Competitive Pricing Fuels a B2B eCommerce Strategy

Years of disruption have transformed many B2B companies into digital-first sellers. Both leaders and late adopters understand that competitive pricing, price optimization, and dynamic pricing strategies are more than just table stakes in the race to win business and drive revenue through eCommerce.&...

Price Optimization: A Guide to Maximizing Profit

Price Optimization: A Guide to Maximizing Profit

Learn what price optimization is, how price elasticity is calculated, how dynamic pricing works, and why price optimization is critical for maximizing profit.What is Price Optimization?Pricing optimization utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to measure price elasticity and predict...

Intelligence in eCommerce, Marketing & Sales-Led Channels

Intelligence in eCommerce, Marketing & Sales-Led Channels

B2B companies must personalize and ensure consistency in the customer experience across digital channels such as eCommerce and marketing automation systems. They should also extend this to their direct sales channels. Discover how revenue operations and intelligence software can transform eCommerce...

How to Keep B2B Contracts & Agreements Profitable

How to Keep B2B Contracts & Agreements Profitable

Economic headwinds spurred by the pandemic and geopolitical tensions actively work against your customer-specific pricing agreements. Because of inflation and supply chain issues, it is critical to ensure B2B contracts and customer agreements are current. This blog discusses the benefits of pricing...

Navigating the Broken Supply Chain

Navigating the Broken Supply Chain

The broken supply chain, and the global economy that flows through it, may never go back to the way things were. B2B companies cannot afford to wait for a return to "normal." They also can't expect to keep pace in this new era with the tools of a bygone age.Can a Product Alternative Strategy Help Yo...

Equip Sales Reps to Sell Excess and Stockout Inventory

Equip Sales Reps to Sell Excess and Stockout Inventory

In an era marked by supply chain and market-driven inventory challenges, learn how revenue operations and intelligence software can enable sales reps to pinpoint opportunities to sell excess and stockout inventory.Inventory Challenges in the New Era of Revenue IntelligenceAs supply chain pressure pe...

A Primer on Predictive Sales Analytics

A Primer on Predictive Sales Analytics

Read to learn how predictive sales analytics enables B2B sales leaders to accelerate sales with data science and grow accounts as effectively as possible.B2B sales leaders are tasked with ensuring their teams can earn, retain and grow their accounts as effectively as possible. Even as their teams ar...

What is a Dynamic Pricing Engine?

What is a Dynamic Pricing Engine?

Dynamic pricing is a well-known term. Yet, if you were to ask 10 pricing experts to define it, you could very well get 10 different answers! A dynamic pricing engine is important for executive and pricing leaders seeking to break free from the limitations of pricing in manual tools.In this post, we'...

An Introduction to Price Management

An Introduction to Price Management

Simply put, price management is the function of creating and updating pricing within a business. It includes setting and managing pricing across a variety of price modes (or types of pricing that can occur in a business) such as list, matrix, negotiation, or customer-specific. Price management also...

A Guide to Smarter, Faster Pricing in Configure Price Quote

A Guide to Smarter, Faster Pricing in Configure Price Quote

Configure Price Quote software, commonly referred to as CPQ software, has grown in popularity as companies look to streamline quoting processes and improve pricing capabilities. However, when companies rely only on a CPQ system, they inadvertently solve only half of their pricing challenge. They mis...

What is Rebate Management?

What is Rebate Management?

Customer rebate management is the process of creating rebate and other off-invoice incentive programs, enrolling customers in those programs, accruing payments, forecasting profitability, and analyzing program effectiveness.Most B2B companies manage this complicated, time-consuming and multi-departm...

Intelligent Price Management for Global and Country Price Lists

Intelligent Price Management for Global and Country Price Lists

An in-depth explainer about how to intelligently accelerate and streamline price management of global and country price lists.Global and Country Price Lists Require More Intelligent and Efficient Price ManagementFor most global companies, the management of global and country price lists is anything...

What is a Real-Time Pricing Engine?

What is a Real-Time Pricing Engine?

If you are responsible for the P&L or commercial operations performance within your organization, it’s likely that the term “pricing engine” is a familiar one. However, precisely understanding the necessary performance standards, integrations, and data processing and calculation capabilities tha...

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