Service Overview
Customer and Trade Promotion Planning and Management service has a comprehensive offering to help our consumer products customers build a holistic solution for Trade Management. The solution will be fully integrated with ERP and Demand Planning, enabling sales leaders to drive revenue, volume & margin growth while optimizing trade spend and to collaborate effectively with trade partners. Our solutions are supported by both SAP and Anaplan.
Service Offerings
Our services will help make the optimum utilization of technology that will benefit your organization to stay on its growth trajectory
- Assessment of promotion management and sales volume planning processes.
- Blueprint for To-Be Trade process definition.
- Roadmap and program plan for trade process transformation and Trade Management implementation.
We help in the implementation of:
- Customer Business Planning (CBP)
- Trade Promotion Management (TPM)
- Trade Funds Management (TFM)
- Trade Claims Management (TCM)
- Demand Signal Management (DSiM)
- Analytics and reporting
- Anaplan Trade Management
- Upgrade of SAP CRM, BW, TPM, and CBP applications to latest TMA version.
- Migration of SAP BPS-TPM to PAK (Planning applications kit) on HANA.
Implementation of Advanced Analytics
- Post-Event Analytics
- Trade Promotion Optimization
- A-I based advanced analytics / predictive capabilities
- Trade Management reporting
Design a support and DevOps support team with our experienced offshore TPM resources for production support. Our global delivery model can help with monitoring, administration, and enhancement development. We can provide a mix of onshore and offshore resources for 24/7 support in multiple regions for performance and cost optimization.
Solutions and Starter Kits
- Fully functional SAP TM application (in TekLink Labs) for blueprinting – helps process owners make informed To-Be process definition decisions and understand fit versus gap.
- Templates for workshops, business process blueprint documents, fit-gap analysis, and a high-quality design.
- Templates and artifacts for a detailed project plan, status reporting, risk/ issue register, cutover plan, change management, and handover.
- Incorporate best practices for on-time, on-budget, and on-value delivery.
- Programs and code snippets in TekLink Labs for
- Unique requirements (For Example: tier-based promotion approval process workflow)
- Automation of user data entry or mass changes
- Artifacts and templates for data models, promotion layouts, customer, and promo P&L, and more
- Accelerate realization phase -> Improve speed to delivery, reduce implementation cost
- Anaplan Trade management starter kit
- Anaplan Customer Planning.
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