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1 ebook 5 BEST PRACTICES FOR ANALYZING PRICING DATA UNLOCK YOUR DATA UNLEASH YOUR SALES
2 Contents Executive Overview... 2 A Path Forward Mastering your pricing system of record: Develop a pricing waterfall: Establish market segmentation: Make pricing variability your friend: Facts beat anecdotes:... 7 Putting It All Together
3 EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOUR SALES DATA IS STALE? You ve worked for weeks to pull together the perfect presentation in your quarterly pricing review. You have mined data from a variety of systems and your analysis is spot-on. Then the week before your meeting, a key competitor makes a price move that changes the market dynamics. You quickly realize your analysis has become irrelevant. The business and the market are in flux. Quite simply, your data is outdated and so are your recommendations. Now you have to start your analysis all over. How do you get accurate, up-to-the-minute pricing information when today s business moves so fast? Let s face it: Using manual techniques to extract data is a time-consuming process that generally yields insufficient results that can give your competition the upper hand. SUMMARY Using manual techniques to extract data is a timeconsuming process that generally yields insufficient results that can give your competition the upper hand. You can overcome these obstacles by developing a better understanding and integrating data across silos. A PATH FORWARD The good news is that there is a better way. You can overcome these obstacles by developing a better understanding and integrating data across silos. Based on work with progressive organizations, PROS has developed five best practices for analyzing pricing data to improve key performance indicators (KPIs) and help you meet your goals. Start by mastering your pricing system of record, then develop a pricing waterfall and establish market segmentation. Now you re positioned to use pricing variability to your advantage. All this work will allow you to move from using anecdotes to a more stable fact-based pricing approach. Let s get started by looking at your system of record. 2
4 1 Mastering your pricing system of record: Properly utilizing your company s data begins with visibility into the right data to analyze. Most organizations rely on data from their system of record, commonly an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Many ERP systems serve as a source of order information, while quoting information is stored in the customer relationship management (CRM) system. This separation often creates inconsistencies across data (such as variances in the spelling of customers names, like TEC vs. The Electronics Company), and there s commonly a lack of granularity or detail down to the product or customer level. Streamlining the data integration between your ERP and CRM systems helps you remove bad data from your system and improves future quotes. And don t forget to factor in rebates and discounts when looking at your pricing analysis. Also, when analyzing pricing based on past quotes, queried data may produce quotes that were proposed but never resulted in orders. These quotes are dangerous to use for analysis; they can reflect a price agreed to by a customer who later found a more agreeable price with another seller. Repeating this process can turn into a vicious cycle of invalid data driving poor decisions. A more reliable pricing analysis should be based on successful past orders. This data generally comprises items actually purchased from your company. Even this data, however, isn t analytics friendly, as it s usually missing information about cost exceptions (such as rebates or reasons for discounts), and results are often skewed by cost accounting averages naturally built into most ERP systems. A profitability analysis, for example, should include replacement cost data sets based on average costs of materials instead of the actual costs of replacing materials. 3
5 2 Develop a pricing waterfall: The pricing waterfall is the most common method used to measure the value of your pricing efforts. Your ability to model the operations of your company into a profit-and-loss report ideally a price waterfall is critical to gaining the pricing insight needed for wins. It s important to first determine which elements of pricing analysis are most important to your particular industry and company. An examination of your organization s pricing waterfall provides visibility into the elements that went into calculating the net price that gets in front of the customer and ultimately makes your organization profitable. These elements should begin with the list price and then include any adjustments that occur in the order they are applied. Price adjustments often include segment discounts or promotional offers, along with incentives such as specific rebates or early-payment discounts. Ideally, the waterfall should also factor in cost of goods, cost of sales, allocation for inventory carrying costs and costs associated with delivering the service to the customer. Start by determining and monitoring only five or 10 of the most critical elements that factor into your pricing. As your organization becomes more accustomed to the data, introduce more elements into the pricing waterfall equation. In short, there may be a dizzying number of price points and elements to include in a pricing waterfall, and it s easy to defeat the purpose of using such a tool by trying to determine every point that should be considered. Instead, start by determining and monitoring only five or 10 of the most critical elements that factor into your pricing. As your organization becomes more accustomed to the data, introduce more elements into the pricing waterfall equation. 4
6 3 Establish market segmentation: Once you understand buying behaviors and purchasing patterns, you re able to segment your customers more accurately. To learn more about customer segmentation, download our ebook, 4 Ways Better Market Segmentation Leads To Higher Sales. The classical view of market segmentation looks first at the total addressable market, and then segments according to each specific group. One group of customers may be focused primarily on cost, while a second group needs more custom products and is willing to pay more for this value. This method often skews toward large accounts and ignores the smaller transactions that make up the majority of sales. Proper segmentation helps you avoid the blanket mentality that every customer s value is the same. Instead of using classical segmentation, look at how different customers buy from your organization and what drives those buying behaviors. It s common for sales reps to assume that they should treat their best customers with the best prices. But it s also possible there are untapped market segments that you need to offer the best pricing to in order to grow those segments. Proper segmentation also helps you avoid the blanket mentality that every customer s value is the same, which often sacrifices a lot of value. A win of a product priced at $5 for one client doesn t mean the same product at the same price wins with every other client. And how much profit are you leaving on the table when that same $5 sale is worth $10 to another customer? 5
7 4 Make pricing variability your friend: After your market segmentation is established, review the variability of pricing or profits within each segment to determine where opportunities exist. The truth is, at first glance, companies are often stunned by the amount of variability in each segment the pricing points for one product may vary from 40 to 180 percent of the market price. But once you understand what s behind your customers buying decisions, you re able to gain some rationality and guidance on how to go to market. Armed with insight into the variability of your segments, you ll begin moving underperformers up to the floor price or higher, so that you re getting what you deserve from a market price standpoint. Then you re ready to start looking at how to better communicate value, allowing you to increase pricing in the future. Products you charge $180 for today could bring $185 tomorrow, and those that bring $2 now could net $2.10 in the future. While these increases may seem minor, each little incremental increase, when applied across thousands of products and customers, adds to your bottom line. By examining the variability in your segments, you gain a better understanding of where to be when renegotiating pricing this is how variability is your friend in the discussion. Often, when sales reps negotiate the initial deal, $5 or $10 seems irrelevant. And in most cases, $5 or $10 is irrelevant to customers when prices are renegotiated. But unless sales reps ask for the increase or hold firm on list pricing, they re not going to get it. By examining the variability in your segments, you gain a better understanding of where and when price negotiation is appropriate. This is how variability is your friend in the discussion. An added value of looking at pricing variability is that you gain insight into your customer base, allowing you to see areas of potential growth, while exposing the true profitability of high-volume clients. 6
8 5 Facts beat anecdotes: When making the case for deals with an in-house analyst, many sales reps use anecdotes from the field to demonstrate how they closed a deal at a particular price point. There are dozens of reasons why sales reps argue for special pricing maybe it s a loyal customer, perhaps the customer is in an especially depressed economic area or maybe it s a new market segment the company is entering. But when pricing analysts look at the facts, the data often tells a different story. Empower your sales reps with facts and they won t have to rely on anecdotes and best guesses when they work on their next deal. It s impossible for pricing analysts to plan for every variation of a discussion; the key is to be equipped with solid data about the market and past pricing. Pricing software delivers information in real time, providing ready access to the insight and expertise needed to make a pricing determination. That way, when a customer makes the case that depressed economic conditions dictate a discount, your sales reps are going to have data that shows whether sales in the area support your proposed pricing. PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER A data-driven approach to pricing is increasingly becoming a requirement if you want to remain competitive. When implemented properly, data is transformed into better information to more effectively price products. If your organization doesn t already have a handle on these five best practices, pricing software is a great catalyst for jumpstarting the discussion. Pricing software does the heavy lifting for your organization. That means no more sitting down and trying to manually figure out pricing or to build a case using bits of data unearthed from the silos of information. The software integrates with one or multiple systems (ERP, CRM and other business operations systems) and takes in all data available, whether it s information about customers, products or transactions. Since it works on a highly granular level, the software is able to make sense of the data and deliver relevant and useful information. 7
9 It also helps sales organizations by allowing them to comb through all the data and provide relevant insight by targeting anomalous patterns and attributes. With a better understanding of these anomalies, you re ready to begin optimizing your pricing. Optimization starts with the ability to slice and dice information while drilling down into segment-specific data. The software allows you to segment your customers by factors such as buying patterns, what offers are winning and what pricing structures make the most sense. The result is a more responsive system that fosters more accurate pricing strategies. This responsiveness means you re better prepared for today s marketplace, where competitors change prices more frequently, consumers are better informed and new products enter the market faster than ever. If you re taking months using manual tools to pull data to perform pricing analysis, the market has already moved past you by the time you come up with a recommendation. Using software that provides visibility into both the variability and the volatility of the market helps you to remain competitive. Done right, real-time pricing software adds sustainability to your organization, helping drive continuous improvement in pricing. The software gives you competitive intelligence by providing insight and continually updated information as business and market conditions change. SUMMARY Pricing data analysis should help you be better prepared for today s marketplace, where competitors change prices more frequently, consumers are better informed and new products enter the market faster than ever. THINK OTHERS MAY BE INTERESTED? SHARE THIS EBOOK: That means the next time you show up at a meeting with pricing information you don t have to worry whether it s already outdated. You ll be confident knowing that you re presenting real-time data that accurately reflects the current state of the market. Learn how PROS Step helps executives understand what factors contribute most to your company s profitability. 8
10 About PROS PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) is a big data software company that helps customers outperform in their markets by using big data to sell more effectively. We apply 27 years of data science experience to unlock buying patterns and preferences within transaction data to reveal which opportunities are most likely to close, which offers are most likely to sell and which prices are most likely to win. PROS offers big data solutions to optimize sales, pricing, quoting, rebates and revenue management across more than 30 industries. PROS has implemented more than 600 solutions in more than 55 countries. The PROS team comprises more than 700 people around the world. To learn more, visit pros.com. Copyright 2014, PROS Inc. All rights reserved. This document is provided for information purposes only and the contents hereof are subject to change without notice. This document is not warranted to be error -free, nor subject to any other warranties or conditions, whether expressed orally or implied in law, including implied warranties and conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We specifically disclaim any liability with respect to this document and no contractual obligations are formed either directly or indirectly 9by this document. This document may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without our prior written permission.
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