TPM

Trade Promotion Management

BluePlanner Trade Promotion Management (TPM) is an operating system for the Consumer Goods sales cycle. It adds structure, control, and visibility into your sales planning and trade spend management processes.

Key Processes Supported

Volume Forecasting​

Terms/Promotions Planning, Evaluation, Approval

Payments & Deductions​

Financial Control & Accruals​

Business Analysis

How Consumer Goods Brands Use BluePlanner TPM

Managing Customer Business Plans & Approvals

Forecasting Shipments

Creating The Annual Operating Plan (AOP)

Paying Bills and Managing Deductions

Controlling Trade Spending

Analyzing Plan Effectiveness

Forecasting the Trade Spending Accrual

Facilitating Monthly Business Review Meetings

Monitoring Business Initiatives

Features

Data Management

Planning/Forecasting

Long Term Agreements

Promotions

Payments & Deductions

Reporting

Dashboard Analytics

Workflow Approvals

Business Rules & Alerts

Benefits

Faster access to deeper and more actionable data, understanding of business performance

Consistent approach across your sales team

Risk of data corruption or loss eliminated

Changes and approvals automatically tracked

Actualization of promotions

Higher sales & spending forecast accuracy

Better control of trade spending

Better collaboration on deductions; faster processing, increased recovery of invalid claims

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TPO

Trade Promotion Optimization

Augment TPM with added intelligence, simulations and reporting capabilities.

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IBP

Integrated Business
Planning​

Provides capabilities to support annual operating plan definition.

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RGM

Revenue Growth Management​

Facilitates advanced analysis by providing deeper insight into margin opportunities.

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Learn how BluePlanner makes Trade Promotion Management Software more efficient at any stage, in any market.