When it comes to modernizing business practices, technology in general and software in particular is essential for business growth. How are manufacturers and suppliers who deal with millions of dollars’ worth of customer rebates each month adapting to the challenges faced by a historic lack of suitable software? Andy James, Chief Product Officer at Enable, shared a few stories about how their clients have changed for the better and what drove their decisions.
Topics: Rebate Management & Growth, Rebate Management System, Customer Rebate Management
Vendor monies that support reseller sales are big business. US-based research conducted in October 2018 estimates that, at top performance levels, distributors, dealers, and retailers use $600+ Billion (USD) in vendor funds. Projections from the EU find that approximately €500 Billion (EU) in vendor funds are similarly spent.
Topics: Rebate Management, Rebate Management & Growth, Supplier collaboration
A ship and debit agreement enables suppliers to sell their goods at a uniform price, while distributors can react to local market conditions and lower the price they use to sell to customers without losing all of their margin.
Topics: Rebate Management & Growth
This building materials supplier was struggling to reconcile rebate information in their unwieldy spreadsheet-based system. They also had an issue around extracting detailed and summary data across all branches and categories prior to the negotiation.
They felt that they needed to gain control over rebate income and at the same time find a solution that would help them to improve their supplier negotiations.
With insufficient accurate, consolidated information at their fingertips, the procurement team could only negotiate on price. They knew that by understanding the projected volumes and product mixes required at a branch / product level they could include delivery, quality and other measures into their negotiations.
Topics: Client Stories, Industry Sector: Building Materials, Rebate Management & Growth, Central Purchasing
For spring / early summer we have a series of three webinars planned to share more detail about our 3 step approach to profitable growth through:
Mastering rebate accounting and maximising profit from rebate deals;
Being prepared for and executing on smarter supplier negotiations;
Collaborating with suppliers for mutually profitable growth.
Topics: Rebate Management, Procurement Excellence, Rebate Management & Compliance, Rebate Accounting, Industry Sector: Building Materials, Industry Sector: Wholesale Distribution, Rebate Management & Growth, Industry Sector: Retail, Industry Sector: Buying Groups, Rebate Management System
Learn why organisations are looking for specialist rebate management software to solve their issues, and how our implementation methodology leads to not only accurate rebate claims, but significant profitable business growth.
Topics: Rebate Management, Rebate Management & Growth, Rebate Management System
We've had great feedback from our recent webinar, so I wanted to share the content with those who didn't make it on the day. This blog provides a summary of the topics we discussed:
Topics: Client Stories, Industry Sector: Building Materials, Rebate Management & Growth, Industry Sector: Buying Groups, ERP Vendor Rebate Modules, Rebate Management System
It isn’t unusual to find that rebate agreements cannot be fully represented within ERP systems and spreadsheets, resulting in disparate sources of information being stored within ERP systems, spreadsheets and even people’s heads! This management headache is multiplied when you consider these 3 major risks:
Topics: Rebate Management, Rebate Management & Compliance, Rebate Management & Growth
