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

  • Targets
  • Account Volume & Spend Forecasting​
  • Promotions & Terms
  • Accruals, Payments & Deductions​
  • Financial Control & Auditing​
  • Business Analysis

How Consumer Goods Brands Use BluePlanner TPM

Annual Op Planning

Analyze Business Across Customers/Products​

Set Targets/Budgets

Setting Authorized Spending for Accounts

Establish Account Guardrails

Account Planning

Define Customer Listing/Assortment

Set Customer Pricing & Plan Long Term Agreements

Establish Promotion Calendar and Operational Details

Forecast Account Volume & Spending

Analyze Account Performance

Execution- Trade Marketing

Facilitate Monthly Business Reviews

Analyze Business Across Customers/Products​

Audit & Approve Promos & Terms

Monitoring Operations & Initiatives

Control Trade Spending

Execution- Customer Service

Set Invoice Pricing Conditions (OI)

Execution- Sales & Operations Planning

Homepage

Execution- Accounting

Acquire Deduction Backup

Research & Validate Deductions

Categorize Deductions

Actualize Promotions & Terms

Analyze Deduction Trends

Execution- Finance

Forecast & Reverse Accruals

Analyze Account/Product P&Ls for Financial Forecasting

Features of BluePlanner TPM

Distributor / Indirect Retailer Planning

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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