DemandTec

Advanced Deal Management

Get More Value from Your Customer’s Deal Management Program with Advanced Deal Management

• Role-based access for rapid and more effective user adoption
• Customized item catalog for a manufacturer-centric view of the business
• Long-term deal archive supporting regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley
• Advanced data reporting to support better business decisions
• Special productivity features and valuable add-on services

Your company has likely been asked to comply with a retail-driven program to move the deal sheet communication process online. While this initiative delivers incremental value to the manufacturer and broker communities, many of the business and operational benefits are optimized for the retailer.

DemandTec’s Advanced Deal Management service introduces capabilities that are tailored for manufacturers and brokers to capture greater value from the online deal management experience. As an upgrade to the basic Deal Management service, Advanced Deal Management provides a manufacturer-centric set of reports and workflow privileges that help further reduce costs, increase user effectiveness and enhance data visibility. Advanced Deal Management subscribers also have access to add-on services that are unavailable to basic Deal Management subscribers.

Role-Based Access for Rapid and More Effective User Adoption

The Advanced Deal Management service introduces usability features to ensure end users achieve productivity as quickly as possible. While the basic Deal Management service allows single authorized user access by product line, Advanced Deal Management provides access to multiple users by product line. In addition, the user view is tailored by product line and functionality is customized by role, ensuring that only the most relevant reports, alerts and workflow appears to a given user.

Customized Item Catalog for a Manufacturer-Centric View of the Business

As a basic Deal Management user, entering promotions requires that you select items from a retailer-centric catalog. This process can be frustrating for end users and has the potential to waste precious time. The Advanced Deal Management service offers a manufacturer-centric item catalog that is customized by promoted group, supporting a more logical way of building and entering promotions. In addition, items selected from the catalog are automatically matched against the retailer item file, highlighting any product attribute discrepancies.

Long-Term Deal Archive Supporting Regulatory Requirements Such as Sarbanes-Oxley

The basic Deal Management service provides 120-day access to deal data, after which all deal history visibility will be removed from the manufacturer view. Advanced Deal Management subscribers enjoy access to a full seven-year history of all deal data, including full documentation of offer versions and written negotiations between trading partners. Among other benefits, this long-term deal archive supports compliance with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley control.

Advanced Data Reporting to Support Better Business Decisions

Access to detailed reporting and data export features are hallmarks of the Advanced Deal Management service. While the reporting capability for basic Deal Management subscribers is thin, Advanced Deal Management users will have access to robust item, deal, billing and invoice reports on demand. Where available by program, incoming invoices submitted by retailers will be auto-matched against the original deal offer, thus saving time, frustration and budget in the deduction clearing process. As an added value, Advanced Deal Management subscribers can download any report into a spreadsheet for deeper offline analysis.

Special Productivity Features and Valuable Add-On Services

The Advanced Deal Management service offers additional productivity features and add-on capabilities. The deal copy feature, which offers convenient one-click access to reuse existing deals as a baseline for future plans, can save countless hours by reducing manual data reentry. Notification enhancements include email alerts corresponding with deal status changes, while extended workflow visibility provides status updates throughout the negotiation and upon acceptance of a proposal. The funds tracker feature adds a checkbooking capabilty to provide an ongoing accounting of one or more trade fund balances.

A series of separate add-on features only accessible to Advanced Deal Management users is also available. One example is Deal/Billing Data Export, which provides an integration path for key deal data to work with other enterprise systems, including finance, inventory planning and supply chain planning software applications.

Advanced Deal Management: More Features, More Value

Upgrading to Advanced Deal Management allows your organization to derive more value from your customer’s online deal management initiative. For a relatively small investment, your company and user base will access features that help to further reduce costs, increase user effectiveness and enhance data visibility.

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Ready to learn what taking deal management to the next level can do for your business? Take the next step. For more information, call 1-888-221-6128 or request information online.