Reporting and analytics are crucial for a company's long term success and is critical to provide a winning edge. However, this is just the starting point of the journey. See what Vistex is doing to take this to the next level by using data science with analytics to not just report on what you have done, but to help propose what you should do and guide your pricing and programs to optimize your results.

Contract pricing and revenue and claim management can be used to gain a major competitive advantage and position a company for higher performance, whether it is designed to boost revenue or increase/protect market share (or both). Millions of dollars are lost annually in all areas of claims processing due to inaccurate pricing calculations and validations as well as inefficient and/or manual processes. This session is for manufacturers to see how you will ensure the most streamlined, efficient and accurate approach to claims processing. Raise the stakes with claim reconciliation and Vistex.

Monsanto, a global modern agriculture company, has transformed their Customer Service Processes enhancing its level of automation, customer proximity and compliance. In this session, learn how Vistex helped transform Monsanto's sales commission and marketing program management.

Join us for this interactive discussion on the full house of rebates. Costco will ante up how they process purchasing rebates, price protection, and even sales based rebates. The buy in is simple - come prepared to listen and share your experiences. Who knows a side bet on S4/Hana might happen as well.

Going from 10,000 steps a day to 70.3 miles in less than 6 months. Training for an Ironman is like trade promotion management - dynamic, constantly challenging, but with goal to WIN. In this session learn how Whirlpool utilized Vistex solutions to help meet that goal.

Cardinal Health is 18 months into a rebate system modernization with Vistex. Join us to discuss our lessons learned on post-implementation support of Vistex. We will also share our roadmap to future expansion of our Vistex capabilities.

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, scanbacks, co-op and MDF. Learn how to raise the stakes by taking a new look at Vistex's trade management solution starting with budgeting and planning to execution while analyzing and evaluating throughout the who process in order to course correct.

What happens after go-live?? Are you positioned to make new enhancements and changes to your Vistex solutions at the pace required by your business? Join us for the interactive roundtable hosted by Graybar Electric as we explore post-implementation enhancement support options and discuss the most productive, as well as, time and cost effective models. Graybar Electric will share their strategy and offer insight into how and why they changed up their support model in 2018 utlizing Vistex Vital Link. We invite others to share support struggles, lessons learned and best practices as well.

For years Topco Associates hired temps to help with all the number crunching related to their sourcing and procurement cost savings calculations form the previous year. Entering all this information into their legacy system, PipeTrac, was extremely manual and cumbersome. In this session, learn how leveraging Vistex solutions, the Topco team was able to design Vistrac, which saved hundreds, if not thousands of hours of manual effort, all while improving their calculation accuracy and speed.

Your digital transformation should not just be about internal systems, but how you expose your GTM programs to your partners and your customers. VIBES is your digital front office for go-to-market programs that integrates seamlessly with the powerful suite of Vistex applications. It enables you and your partners to engage with one another in the digital economy. By reimagining your partners' experience, accelerating communication and promoting collaboration, VIBES is the enterprise platform offering the edge you need. Learn how to raise the stakes and make VIBES your pocket pair of aces.

See what is trending with Go-to-Market programs in Consumer Products and Trade Promotion Management. Learn from industry experts and customers on the what they are hearing on the ground, what people are doing, and how they are implementing best practices. Join in the conversation in this interactive session what is top on your mind with the changes in this space.

Join Adobe, a VISTAS veteran, as they ‘Raise the Stakes’ with their vision to use Data Objects as a ‘Plug & Play’ solution for integration of new business.

Join us as Grainger shares an overview of their chargeback and vendor rebate plans and recent enhancements. Learn more about the benefits they’ve realized as a result of leveraging flexible groups, status flow, matrix and settlement automation functionality to enhance the user experience.

Safe Food, Clean Water, Abundant Energy and Healthy Environments. Ecolab provides services and products to nearly every industry via nearly every method of distribution. Come and hear how Ecolab is leveraging Vistex solutions as a key commercial enabling technology within their Catalyst and Strategy 2020 programs to improve efficiencies, increase transparency and drive growth.

Reporting and analytics are crucial for a company's long term success and is critical to provide a winning edge. It is imperative to have a clear and distinct analytics strategy for growth and expansion. Learn about how Vistex delivers multiple layers of analyses from operational and analytical reports to visual exploration to predictive modeling.

The competitive edge that customers gain with Vistex Solutions is access to the true profitably of any Go-to-Market program. Consume the information you want, where, when and how you want it with Vistex Solutions in the cloud without the SAP backend leveraging our Go-To-Market Suite of products.

Continue to beat the odds and hear about Vistex's roadmap for 2019 and beyond. Share in our vision so that your company can continue to keep winning and stay ahead of the curve.

See what is trending with Analytics and Data Science related to Go-to-Market programs. Learn from industry experts on the what they are hearing on the ground, what people are doing, and how they are implementing best practices. Join in the conversation in this interactive session what is top on your mind with the changes in this space.

The stakes couldn’t be higher when you are managing pricing for a high volume sales based company like Cheney Brothers, a family owned food distributor. In this session, learn how Cheney Brothers replaced its custom-build contract management system with Vistex to better manage its complex pricing processes.

In 2017, Signify (formerly known as Philips Lighting) discussed how they were implementing a global Price Management program using Vistex Price Management, and how they defined a KPI framework which is used to monitor the deployment and to support the growth towards a more mature pricing function. At VISTAS 2018, they will elaborate on a year’s worth of results and lessons learned. Signify will also discuss their roadmap and ways they plan to Break The Bank in the coming years.

A simple, easy, intuitive user experience is what everyone is looking for today. See how Vistex is letting you win with the expectations of the modern users with their Fiori user interface. See how this standard delivered flexible architecture allows people to see what they want, how they want it, without any development. Learn how to deliver this key business functionality without custom development in this deep dive master class session.

Are you looking to dig a little deeper into the Vistex planning capabilities? This session will show you how to leverage planning for all programs, from Pre and Post program analysis to quota management. Learn how to leverage Vistex planning capabilities for annual planning and budgeting with budget templates automatically defined by user role. This deep dive master class will delve into the setup and configuration needed for planning with a special focus on the planning grid. Learn all the latest planning features that can take your programs to the next level.

Now that you have decided to start your S/4HANA journey, dig deeper and learn how Vistex is taking advantage of its new concepts and architecture in this deep dive session. Learn how calculation buckets and Vistex's pricing engine can speed processing. Raise the stakes and learn about the Vistex S/4HANA engines and objects.

Managing complex incentive programs correctly and efficiently are critical to profitability. Knowing how to incent your internal and external sales force should become a science instead of a gut feeling. See how Vistex is a sure bet for all of your performance incentive plans from territory planning to program creation to execution to analytics while giving your sales force immediate access to accurate results.

Are you tired of bad incoming data for you claims and master data? Are you tired of too much preprocessing necessary to get files loaded into Vistex? Explore Vistex's Data Objects tool to see how to cleanse your data and automatically create follow on documents without any development.

Has your pricing become so complex that it’s creating processing nightmares? Are you spending too many man hours on pricing updates when the time could be better utilized elsewhere? Let us show you a sure bet to relieve those pricing headaches by making the maintenance quicker, more efficient and accurate. This DMP session will guide you through pricing administration, execution, reporting and analytics and review our upcoming pricing document and grid.

Expected accruals, revenue recognition, amortization, agreement postings … do these concepts immediately have you think about lots of complexity and custom code? Dig deeper into Vistex's new accounting engine to allow you to stack the deck to win in these areas.

Win with VIstex's new ViZi reporting tool. In this master class with live examples, learn the nuts and bolts of how to prepare data for analysis, visualize it, and deploy it the way you want so you are not gambling with your Go-to-Market programs.

Empower business users to take meaningful ownership of data with SAP Data Maintenance Resources. As organizations seek to define and execute effective go-to-market strategies, they rely on a foundation of accurate master data and an efficient means of maintaining it. Vistex solutions give you a sure bet to define, enrich, validate, approve and syndicate master data for customers, vendors and products. Learn how to increase accuracy and visibility to supplier, product and customer data to enable better marketing, selling strategies and execution.

The foundation of every Vistex Go-to-Market program and incentive is the agreement. Learn the basics within the agreement to get a complete view of the agreement's power. Explore the many ways of creation, maintenance, and display of agreements and programs with live system demonstrations. Walk away with the winnings of tips and tricks to use back at the office.

Creating forms and statements can be a time intensive and costly activity. Learn how Vistex helps you win in this area with their new statement editor tool in this master class.

Vistex helps its customers overcome obstacles to success, and the Vistex Foundation and our employee-powered Vistex Endeavor program help needy people across the globe overcome barriers to success. This presentation will highlight the work we’ve done in recent years, how Vistex employees have dedicated their time and energy to their communities, and the reasons why we consider social responsibility to be a high priority. We welcome stories about your company’s employee engagement programs as well.

The connected farm and the need to keep costs in check while planning for the long term is the mantra today in the Agribusiness space. Vistex is enabling the savvy farmer with tools to optimize these factors. Learn more during this introductory session on the Vistex Agribusiness Solution and see how we are growing in this space.

Distributors and retailers operate in landscapes of increasing complexity, shrinking profit margins, and scarcity of cash. To remain profitable, it’s essential to track and account for every penny that vendors owe them. In this introductory overview session, we will explore how the sky is the limit with Vistex's ability to automate the process, allowing for quicker recovery of monies owed. The entire lifecycle of the chargeback process will be explained from agreement creation to chargeback processing to accrual and settlement to reconciliation and reporting.

How can I more efficiently manage my rebate programs? Am I incentivizing on the right outcome? Can I flexibly define the programs to match the business? This session will look at tools that help answer these questions. We will examine how Vistex can help you manage customer and vendor rebate programs more effectively and help ensure you are getting the desired results.