Chris Phelan

Chris Phelan

Industry Principal for Automotive and High Tech at Vistex

Chris Phelan specializes in Pricing and Incentives Management for Automotive manufacturers and end-to-end Revenue Management for High Tech manufacturers. With more than 30 years of experience in new product development, engineering management, program management, and business development, Chris has worked for GE Aviation, Chrysler, Magna International and Marquardt. Chris holds a BS from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MBA from Syracuse University.

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Beat Your MDF Management Track Record

Most technology and software vendors like you offer co-marketing subsidies to your partners through market development funds (MDF) or cooperative (Co-op) dollars.

April 19, 2024

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Are Your Incentives On Solid Ground?

Are Your Incentives On Solid Ground?

By most industry standards, 2023 was a profitable year for agricultural equipment manufacturers, predominantly due to increased efforts to provide incentives to dealer networks to offset elevated interest rates.

April 3, 2024

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Is Data Invisibility Costing Your Company?

4 ways to ensure quality data and analytics in electronic components distribution. How much does a lack of data visibility and quality cost you as an electronic component manufacturer?

February 12, 2024

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It’s The Year Of The Dragon. Let’s Power Up!

It’s The Year Of The Dragon. Let’s Power Up!

It’s the perfect time for growth and setting the foundation for long-term success. As an electronic device or component manufacturer, you are experiencing fiery competition and the need to power up the speed at which you respond to price quotes.

January 24, 2024

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Catching The Next Big Wave In Auto

Catching The Next Big Wave In Auto

It’s no surprise that the rising tide of autonomous technologies and electric vehicles (EV) has created ripple effects in the downstream supply chain, especially for automotive component suppliers.

January 17, 2024

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Are You Getting A Slice Of The Subscription Services Pie?

Are You Getting A Slice Of The Subscription Services Pie?

As an automaker, you’re already discussing and preparing for the significant future revenue that will surely come from subscriptions and upgrades of vehicle features and services that are not included with the purchase price or commonly referred to, “as purchased.”

November 16, 2023

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Are Electric Vehicles Driving Us Closer To The Final Frontier?

Future electric car market growth and commercialization require OEMs to optimize automotive incentive management now Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before The fast-approa...

June 19, 2023

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Semiconductor Capacity Constraints

Prepare To Think Beyond The Semiconductor Capacity Constraints

2 semiconductor industry challenges all manufacturers must solve If you could see the future and know that the semiconductor market will double in the next 7 years, would y...

April 25, 2023

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Automotive Industry Trends for 2023

Connectivity Is Coming To A Road Near You

Automotive industry trends for 2023: Connectivity Imagine driving KITT from Knight Rider to get groceries, take your kids to school, or go to the golf course. Sound too goo...

March 17, 2023

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Is Supply Chain Disruption Moving Your Incentive Programs In The Wrong Direction?

High Tech Supply Chain Disruption and its effect on Incentive Programs “It is not the strongest or most intelligent who survive, but those who best manage change.” -C...

January 26, 2023

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High Tech Digital Transformation Industry

Industry 4.0: Are You A Disruptor or Disruptee?

Tackling tough challenges in high tech digital transformation It’s been dubbed “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” or 4IR for short. And some refer to it as “digital transfo...

July 14, 2022

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There’s No Dip In Counterfeit Chips

Semiconductor authenticity remains mission critical during chip shortage Much has been written lately about the effect of the semiconductor shortage on automotive manufactu...

November 10, 2021

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