Consumer Products

Trade Promotion Management (Billbacks)

If you experience increasing trade spend costs and decreased return, it's time to evaluate how your business drives through trade programs for retailer claims, marketing claims, and scanbacks. Billbacks by Vistex delivers an end-to-end solution for automatic calculation of promotional amounts due to the customer, including retroactive processing of eligible transactions.  Systematic validation against active promotions and tolerance limits (overall or item level) help ensure accurate accrual and settlement of customer funds.

Channel Inventory Tracking

Channel and store management can inhibit your ability can effectively bring your inventory to market. Vistex offers a sophisticated, multi-tier channel inventory management tool that tracks orders, returns, POS data and claims. Channel Inventory Tracking by Vistex provides visibility of true inventory counts and value with organized access to all supporting documentation. Gain insight into potential costs and liabilities due to price decreases and eliminate overpayments for price protection claims.

Co-op & MDF

Unmanaged Market Development Funds (MDF) and Co-Op Funds can lead to lost revenue and increased costs within indirect marketing channels. MDF & Co-Op by Vistex delivers an efficient, highly automated approach to managing every aspect of MDF and Co-Op programs, including planning, budgeting, enrolling, allocating monies, tracking utilization/spend, submitting for approval, validating and settling claims/rebates.

Rebates

As the complexity of sales, purchasing, volume and growth rebate programs grow, so does the risk of profit leakage if rebates are not managed. With Rebates by Vistex you can model, administer, report, and analyze highly complex rebate programs, including volume, growth, market share, and other multi-dimensional scenarios without manual processes. Automatically calculate rebates due to the customer and conducting live simulations of system data to predict outcomes.  Get the power to create customer programs that drive your business objectives and bring true visibility into the rebate process through forecasting, profitability modeling, and forward visibility to next rebate levels. 

Rights & Royalties

Millions of dollars can be lost when inbound royalties are poorly managed. And huge sums can be paid incorrectly to content owners. In both cases, failing to effectively manage rights and royalties can lead to unrealized profits or erroneous payments, and a negative impact on your bottom line.

Vistex royalty solutions systemically manage both inbound (revenue) and outbound (expense) royalties. By tracking the usage of intellectual property between licensors and licensees, and by continually tying payments to contractual terms, Vistex ensures that the right payments go to the right people every time. This centralized, integrated and automated approach empowers your business to effectively manage recognition, accrual, calculation, analysis and settlement of all royalties.

Price Management

Don't let misaligned pricing affect your bottom line. Price Management by Vistex allows you to quickly load customer price information, while enabling you to automatically calculate and validate prices against business rules. Gain insights into the program success through analysis of true gross-to-net profitability. Achieve end-to-end management of price administration and analysis to price your products confidently, rapidly notify customers of price changes, and ensure the most return on your pricing programs.

Deals & Offers

Complex special pricing scenarios that include multiple products, categories and quantity requirements, can be difficult to administer. Deals & Offers by Vistex automates deal eligibility and qualification, highlighting applicable deals at the time of order entry based on business rules. Manage your deals and offers with clearly defined program terms for mix-and-match, BOGO, percent-off future purchase deals, and limited-time or order-size discounts to analyze program profitability and ensure business objectives are achieved.