All sessions are subject to change
7:30AM-9:00AM
Breakfast
9:15AM-10:30AM
Quintessentially Outdone
Technology is ubiquitous. Just when it seemed to reach a pinnacle, a pathbreaking and pervasive revolution has ensued in the form of generative AI, causing a frenzy to outperform everyone and outdo everything. As purveyors of enterprise software our primary objective should be to advance business goals by leveraging technology rather than be submissive to it. In his keynote, Sanjay will make a case for outdoing yourself and not others, and highlight how Vistex is channeling 25 years of expertise in empowering mission critical processes to further our customers’ business goals.
Sanjay Shah
Vistex CEO, Founder
PRESENTED BY:
11:00AM-12:00PM
What's New in SAP
Explore the features and functionality that Vistex is continually adding to its Solutions for SAP Suite. In this session, you will learn about all of the latest and greatest features that have recently been added to the products including analytics, user experience, new features, and industry solution enhancements. ECC and S/4HANA examples will be covered.
Cara DeGraff
Vice President of Product Management
PRESENTED BY:
11:00AM-12:00PM
“Driving to the Future” with GTMS Chargebacks and Pricing
Embark on a thrilling journey with Henry Schein, Inc. as they accelerate into the future, shedding old legacy systems and embracing the dynamic capabilities of Vistex. Join this innovation-driven expedition and witness how Henry Schein, Inc. advances into a new era, leveraging Vistex's transformative power to reshape their chargeback and pricing strategies, ensuring lasting success.
Kurt Budke
Executive Director, Enterprise Operations Pricing and Contract Systems
Darren Garsko
Senior Manager, Sales Operations Process and Systems Improvement
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11:00AM-12:00PM
Rights & Royalties Keynote: It's Only Artificial If It's Not Intelligent
Higher interest rates, an inflationary environment and a tech industry preparing itself for the increased utilization and reliance on AI, have all had a direct impact on the music, media and entertainment industries over the last 12 months. This is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. As data continues to form a larger part of everyday life and business decision making, we’ll ask; how can you drive better decision making in a competitive environment with a sea of information? And, can we change the narrative from “What can I?” to “What should I?” with better tools. At this year’s VISTAS conference, we’ll analyze these industry trends, discuss new business models and present how Vistex can help you extract more value from your business in this changing business environment. Join Amos Biegun for his annual Rights & Royalties keynote where all of this will be discussed in detail.
Amos Biegun
Global Head of Rights and Royalties
PRESENTED BY:
11:00AM-12:00PM
Industry Panel Discussion: Consumer Products
Join our panelists as they discuss key influences affecting the Consumer Products retail and foodservice industry today and provide examples of how companies are rising to the Revenue Growth Management (RGM) challenges and getting ahead of the competition. These companies are creating cross-functional teams and investing in capabilities to capture areas which are hindering RGM and figuring out how to sustain such gains over time. In this discussion we will learn about actions taken by Vistex Clients and the industry to hardwire revenue growth techniques into core business processes, implementing incentives, and building and maintaining these capabilities at scale.
Jeff Mok
Director of Presales, North America/SSSA
Joel Cartwright
Industry Principal for Consumer Products at Vistex
Tim Kohlstedt
IT Business Process Support Manager
Dave Golias
Executive Director, Business Advisory
Raju Tangudu
Senior Director, Solution Architecture
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11:00PM-12:00PM
From Sharepoint to Vistex: Building Pricing Control and Momentum
Over 500 years old, Royal Mail operates through the UK to over 30 million addresses and offers letter and parcel delivery services both domestically and internationally. Sit in on this session as Richard Barnes relives their transformational B2B pricing journey from predominantly fixed to individually negotiated prices for more than 30,000 customers. He will share how he drove cultural change across Sales, Service and Pricing whilst securing funding to upgrade to Vistex and drive significant benefits within a legacy Tech ecosystem. Plus, he will delve into the lessons learnt along the way and how to manage a diverse range of stakeholders from Vistex to Sales.
Richard Barnes
Commercial Transformation Director
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12:00PM-1:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM-2:00PM
Drive the Momentum in Life Sciences
Revenue Management in the Life Science space is always a challenge. See how Vistex is driving momentum to ensure that all the money you spend on your programs are increasing revenue and profit. Learn about all the work being done to help manage chargebacks, rebates, pricing, managed care programs, government pricing, and more.
Sarah Haley Fuentes
Solution Engineering Manager at Vistex
Bob Steller
Industry Principal of Life Sciences at Vistex
PRESENTED BY:
1:00PM-2:00PM
Continuing to DRIVE the MOMENTUM after implementation by leveraging Vistex VitalLink Support
As business and staff change, software needs to adapt. This panel discussion will focus on how customers with different support strategies leverage the Vistex VitalLink support service. Benjamin Moore will discuss their journey on how they completed a smooth transition from project mode to support mode using VitalLink and how they continue to engage the VitalLink team for issue resolution and enhancements. Enhancing software is essential for delivering a high-quality product that meets user needs, adapts to changing technology landscapes, and maintains a competitive edge. It's a way to demonstrate commitment to users, security, and innovation while fostering growth and sustainability for the software product. This panel will give insight and best practices as companies plan their Vistex transition to support.
Pedro Villalpando
Change Manager - Vistex
Nick Fleischman
Director, Solution Delivery - Vistex
Joseph Shaw
Benjamin Moore - SAP/VISTEX Systems Analyst
Nagender Mankala
Sr. Manager ERP - Padagis
PRESENTED BY:
1:00PM-2:00PM
Improving the Commute Down Wallstreet
Join the Grainger Supplier Rebates team and hear how they navigate through daily challenges to reach the goal of operational excellence using Vistex Rebate and Vizi Cloud solutions. They’ll share experiences related to improving and maintaining quality data, consolidating and automating business processes, and the growing necessity that data analytics plays in today’s unsteady market.
Jessica Hiett
Supervisor, Supplier Rebates
Oxana Corbett
Software Developer
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1:00PM-2:00PM
Mrs. T’s® Driven to Digitized Planning with Vistex
Join Mrs. T’s, a CPG Manufacturer of some of the largest and tastiest pierogies in the world, to learn how their integration with Vistex has changed their way of doing business for the better among the Retail and Foodservice industries. They will discuss the transition from offline planning with a plethora of spreadsheets and multiple planning methods, and how Vistex’s TPM Solution has assisted with the transition to online planning, status flow approvals, headquarter plan rollups for high level performance reviews, and reporting in ViZi through Fiori.
Megan Messina
Director of Revenue Growth Management & Sales Operations
Dominic Tedesco
Business Analyst
Joe Dombrosky
Manager of ERP Systems
PRESENTED BY:
1:00PM-2:00PM
Drive the Momentum in Your Holistic Pricing Journey
Learn how to drive the momentum for your pricing journey through an analogy and use cases. See how Vistex is a data-driven system designed to capture a holistic view of the pricing organization using factual and predictive analytics support at strategic points.
Rajagopal Govindarajulu
Director of Pricing Architecture
Allen Ipjian
Manager of Solution Engineering
PRESENTED BY:
1:00PM-2:00PM
Drive the Momentum in Agribusiness
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.
Dipen Shah
Senior Director of Solution Delivery Agriculture
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2:30PM-3:30PM
Panel Discussion: Vendor Programs
Join Vistex and industry experts as they discuss key influences affecting vendor program management today highlighting the Wholesale Distribution and Retail industries. They will provide examples of how companies are rising to the challenges and getting ahead of the competition. Learn how modern distributors are changing their practices by adopting new business capabilities to drive volume and establish customer stickiness.
Cara DeGraff
Vice President of Product Management
Sherry Hughes-Bracher
Manager – Supplier Contract Management
Linda Funk-Dykes
Manager – Business Systems
Scott Sinning
Pricing For Distributors (President)
Kerry Meredith
Senior Accounting Manager
Pavan Shetty
Senior Director, Solution Architecture
Amit Dahiya
Senior Director, Solution Architecture
PRESENTED BY:
2:30PM-3:30PM
What's New in Music
A session dedicated to the music industry aimed at both music publishers and record labels. Vistex will present its GTMS solution for the music industry, highlighting unique capabilities as it moved this functionality into the cloud.
Dave Bagley
Senior Manager, Music Industry Solutions
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2:30PM-3:30PM
Sharp/NEC Drives the Momentum in partnership with Vistex Program Delivery Services
Learn how Sharp/NEC leveraged Vistex Program Delivery services to manage the day-to-day operations supporting complex compensation programs as well as the claims management process for their business. Vistex Program Delivery acts as an extension of the Sharp/NEC team working together to overcome real business challenges including optimizing processes, managing resources, and adapting to evolving business requirements
Amber VanDyke
Director, Sales Operations
Katy Griffiths
Vice President Program Administration
PRESENTED BY:
2:30PM-3:30PM
Drive the Momentum with an Advanced Analytics Platform
Learn how to extend Vistex functionalities for your Go-to-Market programs with Vistex Advanced Analytics Platform! Gain insights into jumpstarting your analytics solution for rapid benefits while achieving precise control over pricing strategies by harnessing cutting-edge AI/ML technology effectively.
Gaurav Aggrawal
Senior Director of Analytics
Maarten Oosten
Data Science Senior Director
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2:30PM-3:30PM
Profitability Redefined: Syngenta's Pricing & Rebates Strategy
Learn how Syngenta IT and Marketing partnered to transform their rebate and pricing operations, while improving their profitability management and streamlining ease of doing business with their customers using Vistex Incentive Administration and Data Maintenance Pricing
Felipe Figueiredo
LATAM IT Solution Lead
Marcela Simioni
LATAM SAP Lead
Gustavo Almeida
LATAM IT Head
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2:30PM-3:30PM
What’s New in Life Science Commercial Operations
Join an interactive demo session to review some of Vistex's latest enhancements in commercial processes for Life Science. We'll review commercial contracts and explore membership management, managed care, bid management integration to Salesforce and others. See what's new in these areas and provide feedback directly to Vistex's life science team.
Bob Steller
Industry Principal of Life Sciences at Vistex
Sarah Haley-Fuentes
Solution Engineering Manager at Vistex
Ashit Taneja
Senior Director, Solution Architecture
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4:00PM-5:00PM
Business Case - Leading A Project-Business Case to Executive Approval
Have you ever spent a great deal of time on planning for a project that makes good business sense, only to see your project get rejected or deferred by your executive team? You are not alone. Leading a large scale project (IT, business, other) to executive approval requires careful strategic planning, collaborative matrix management, and a C-Suite mindset. In this practical, real-world session, we will look at how to lead any project (not just Vistex) to successful executive approval. You will leave with a clear understanding of the approach and steps needed to give your project the best possible chance of getting approved by your company's executive board.
Geoff Smith
Senior Account Executive
Gary Guilland
Business Advisor Solution Delivery
PRESENTED BY:
4:00PM-5:00PM
Discount Management Roundtable
Do you really know if you are really making money once you take all of your rebates, discounts, incentives, and other programs into account? Do you know if your best customers are really getting the best prices? Are you offering the most current prices to your customers across all pricing platforms?Join this roundtable led by Vamsi Reddy from GE Aerospace and Trisha Larimer from Patterson to discuss how other clients handle discounts management and how it is impacting your profitability and bottom line. Learn how Vistex and others make it all add up.
Vamsi Konduru
Sr Director, Technical Product Management
Trisha Larimer
SAP Functional Manager
PRESENTED BY:
4:00PM-5:00PM
Driving Automation & Accelerating Profits
In "Driving Automation and Accelerating Profits," join SMC, a leader in pneumatic technology, on a transformative journey as they delve into the successful implementation of their automated rebate solution. Discover firsthand how this innovative approach not only streamlined complex rebate processes but also catalyzed substantial profit growth. Learn how automation can revolutionize your operations and drive your business towards enhanced efficiency and increased profitability.
Jenna Young
Director of Strategic Planning
Jocelyn Rozycki
Senior Strategic Pricing Analyst
Wesley McBride
Sales Analysis Manager
PRESENTED BY:
4:00PM-5:00PM
Leveling the Playing Field
After a decade of growth and acquisitions, Concord, the independent, worldwide leader in the development, management and acquisition of sound recordings, music publishing and theatrical performance rights and narrative content, found themselves with a variety of mismatched migrated data and valid new data. A wide variety of “work arounds” were created and became their normal operating procedure. Learn how with the implementation of GTMS Records, they've given themselves the opportunity to level the playing field and move forward with matching data. They will also discuss how GTMS Records integrates into all of their systems, while also setting Concord up for successful growth in the future.
Jonathan Altman
Senior Director, Recorded Music Royalties Data and Technology
Kayle Kiener
VP, Recorded Music Royalties
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4:00PM-5:00PM
Agriculture is Not Archaic Anymore!
In this session, learn about how Pantaleon, an agroindustrial organization dedicated to the responsible processing of sugar cane, implemented Vistex Agribusiness across its Central American and Mexican businesses while driving ERP transformation, in tandem. Using cutting edge technology and SAP, Pantaleon is exemplary of the revolutionary changes that are occurring in Agribusiness.
Honorio Padron
CTO
PRESENTED BY:
6:30PM-9:30PM
Welcome Reception
Neptune Pool
PRESENTED BY:
8:30AM-9:30AM
Breakfast
9:30AM-10:30AM
TRANCE-FORM To Perform
For over 25 years, Wayne Lee has been one of North America’s premier corporate presenters, entertainers, and peak performance experts. During his career, he has helped people from over 6000 organizations and various walks of life develop the subconscious mindset that allows them to perform at a high level no matter what challenges they face. This thought-provoking and wildly entertaining experience will leave you speechless and inspired to put the simple, proven principles that top performers use into practice in their own lives to become unstoppable.
Wayne Lee
Peak Performance Expert
PRESENTED BY:
11:00AM-12:00PM
What can Generative AI do today?
As much hype as we are all hearing about how Generative AI is going to change the world, what is the reality today? Come spend 60 minutes with Google's Generative AI Global lead Josh Gwyther as he demonstrates the latest capabilities and use cases followed by Q&A.
Josh Gwyther
Generative A.I. Global Lead
PRESENTED BY:
11:00AM-12:00PM
Out With the Old, In With the New!
In this session, Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automation with operations in more than 100 countries, will chronicle their journey navigating from an old homegrown ERP system to driving momentum into the future with SAP. You will also learn how Schneider leveraged a phased approach and strong collaboration with Vistex to grow confidence across our organization by delivering industry leading pricing practices.
Nick Holnaider
Price Structure and Technology Lead
Darren DeVore
Business Transformation Leader
PRESENTED BY:
11:00AM-12:00PM
Driving the E2E Momentum in Media and Licensing
Discover how Vistex has furthered its capabilities for Media and IP licensing, for both Rights In and Rights Out. In this session we’ll walk you through the new and improved features Vistex has developed for our Rights & Royalties solution. We’ll see how its drives your end-to-end processing for all things Rights & Royalties related, including presentation of use cases and discussion of upcoming roadmap items.
Tom McDonough
Director of Media Client Service at Vistex for Rights & Royalties
Jon Robinson
Senior Product Manager
PRESENTED BY:
11:00AM-12:00PM
Upgrading Roundtable
Do you have a great story on what made your Vistex upgrade a success that you want to share? Do you have some pitfalls that you wish you would have been able to avoid? Are you getting ready for an upgrade, whether is just to a new release, feature pack or from ECC to S/4HANA, and want to hear about some lessons learned? Attend this roundtable to hear about how to have a winning Vistex project. Share your experiences in this roundtable whether you are planning to start your journey or have completed one.
Chad Ness
SolDelv Business Advisory
Pradeep Shrivastava
AMD - Business Systems Sr. Manager
PRESENTED BY:
11:00AM-12:00PM
Drive the Momentum in Wholesale Distribution
Revenue Management in the Wholesale Distribution space is always a challenge. Whether it is managing programs with your vendors or your customers, see how Vistex is driving momentum to ensure that all the money you receive and spend on your programs are increasing revenue and profit and not just costing money. Learn about all the work Vistex is doing to help manage SPAs with our new architecture in S/4, handle the complexity of rebates and incentives with our new flexible structures, evaluate the true gross to net calculations with planning, optimize costs and prices while managing the volumes with our data science and High-Performance Pricing tools, and more.
Cara DeGraff
Vice President of Product Management
Pavan Shetty
Senior Director, Solution Architecture
PRESENTED BY:
11:00AM-12:00PM
What’s New in Life Science Regulatory Compliance
Join an interactive demo session to review some of Vistex's latest enhancements in regulatory compliance processes for Life Science. We'll explore master data, AMP and Best price in GP. We will review agreement definition and management and claim management for Medicaid and FSS compliance tracking. See what’s new in these areas and provide feedback directly to Vistex's Life Science team.
Bob Steller
Industry Principal of Life Sciences at Vistex
Sarah Haley-Fuentes
Solution Engineering Manager at Vistex
Ashit Taneja
Senior Director, Solution Architecture
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12:00PM-1:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM-2:00PM
How Vistex GTMS Drove Improved Pricing Capabilities In a Context of Huge Market Changes
This presentation will narrate the success story of KERSIA, a global leader in biosecurity and food safety, to digitally transform, automate and extend its pricing capabilities and improve its time to market price changes; in an international context with a lot of raw materials costs fluctuations. You will learn the outcome of implementing Vistex GTMS, a highly efficient & corporate solution, fully adapted to its business needs which allow its sales organization to be more efficient and reactive with its customers in a structured way, while securing its margin.
Sébastien Lemâle
CRM Manager
Franck Edouard
ERP Program Director
PRESENTED BY:
1:00PM-2:00PM
Drive the Momentum with RevFlo
This session will focus on RevFlo, a cutting-edge integration app that facilitates seamless end-to-end integration between Salesforce and Vistex for Opportunity-Quote-Contract and Claims processes. You will learn how Sales Representatives can efficiently run negotiation and contract cycles, leveraging AI driven price guidance, margin validation, and pricing insights. In addition, you will learn how RevFlo significantly simplifies and enhances the experience for manufacturers and distributors in Vistex claim processing.
Rajesh Chaganti
Executive Director Solution Delivery
Charlie Denys
Solution Engineer
Farsad Ghafoor
Director of Sales
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1:00PM-2:00PM
Cross Industry Lessons: What Can We Learn from Tech’s Impact on the Music Industry
As the music industry continues to be confronted with new technology, earlier than most other industries, what are the lessons learned on how to embrace tech. AI, new social media platforms and other disruptors been introduced in recent times, and the industry is learning how to embrace these, although not without some pain. Join us for a Rights & Royalties moderated panel with industry leaders. Our aim is to facilitate a cross-industry conversation with leading subject matter experts in their fields.
Amos Biegun
Global Head of Rights and Royalties
Rene Merideth
COO/Co-Founder
Kayle Kiener
VP Recorded Music Royalties
Jodie Ferneyhough
President and Founder
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1:00PM-2:00PM
ESG at Vistex – Celebrating 10 years
Vistex Founder and CEO, Sanjay Shah will kick off a conversation about how Vistex has been working to meet clients’ ESG compliance expectations. During this session you will watch a short film about the foundation and Vistex Hospital, learn about Vistex Go, our Agri app for small farmers, hear directly from our leadership team on how they have worked with community colleges, governments, and local organizations to create opportunities for the future diverse workforce, and how we’re developing a program to meet your company’s environmental and SDG goals.
Mason Payne
Executive Director Corporate Social Responsibility
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1:00AM-2:00PM
We believe unstoppable businesses shouldn’t do it alone: How we are using Vistex to help drive the momentum of delivering on this promise!
During this session, learn how Vistex led Border States, one of the largest electrical supply distributors in the US, to gain efficiencies across 3 key areas: optimizing RFQ workflow for contract management and new vendor costs, enhancing cost loading and validation, and improving vendor integration through enhanced EDI capabilities.
Stephanie Fresquez
Alliance Sourcing & Costing Manager
Andrew VanHavermaet
Costing Supervisor
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2:30PM-3:30PM
Pricing Profession Trends - Momentum or Lethargy?
Join speakers Chris and Johnny from Professional Pricing Society as they break down results of a 2022 PPS pricing survey while also comparing them to previous survey results over the past 4 years. This presentation will include trends specific to the pricing profession around salaries, reporting structures, job satisfaction, software usage, and pricing power.
Chris Buckingham
Vice President of Sponsorship
Johnny Haskins
Director of Customer Success
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2:30PM-3:30PM
Driving Automation with Data Objects: From green to checkered flag and all the pit stops in between
In this session, ScanSource, a leading international distributor of specialty technology products, will discuss how their top supplier price concession agreements are automated using Vistex Data Objects. Hear how the process was implemented, the benefits derived, and the hard lessons learned along the way.
Lisa Fuller
SAP Business Analyst III
Crystal Selfridge
SAP Business Analyst
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2:30PM-3:30PM
What's New in GTMS
Explore the features and functionality that Vistex is continually adding to its cloud suite GTMS. In this session, you will learn about all of the latest and greatest features that have recently been added to the products plus what's coming up.
Cara DeGraff
Vice President of Product Management
PRESENTED BY:
2:30PM-3:30PM
Drive the Momentum in Consumer Products
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 and Co-op & MDF. Learn how to drive momentum with your programs by taking a new look at Vistex's trade management solution starting with budgeting and planning to execution while analyzing and evaluating throughout the whole process to course correct.
Jeff Mok
Director of Presales, North America/SSSA
Joel Cartwright
Industry Principal for Consumer Products at Vistex
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2:30PM-3:30PM
Industry Panel Discussion: Life Sciences
Join Vistex and a panel of your peers to discuss key issues and the future of Life Sciences. Some of the topics we will be discussing include AI, blockchain, machine learning, value based medicine, Gross-to-Net, compliance, including the new move towards Medicare price negotiation and others. Come prepared to engage with the panel through questions and your insights. We look forward to seeing you there and expect a lively discussion.
Sarah Haley Fuentes
Solution Engineering Manager at Vistex
Bob Steller
Industry Principal of Life Sciences at Vistex
Brian Gallen
Zoetis Associate Director, Vistex and Indirect Sales Global Lead
Praveena Manda
Zoetis Commercial Business Partner
Tania Kells
Alcon, Director Revenue Management
Eva Kumar
Alcon, Business System Manager
Vishal Joshi
Ascend (VP - IT)
Santosh Panda
Zydus (Sr. Director of Government Pricing & Contracts)
PRESENTED BY:
4:00PM-5:00PM
Vistex Contract Management for Business Value Generation
Farmacias YZA (FarmaCon), a leading pharmacy chain based in Mexico with more than 1,500 branches, will chronicle their journey utilizing Vistex solutions. You will learn how their implementation has allowed them to better manage their financial processes for Chargebacks and Rebates by increasing automation and integration with SAP, expediting the Return on Investment (ROI). They will also discuss how Vistex has enabled key business capabilities growth in the Retail industry.
Mauro García Garza
IT Solutions Manager
PRESENTED BY:
4:00PM-5:00PM
Swimming with Sharks: Navigating the Middle Market with Big-Cap Solutions
Dive deep with LK Packaging, formerly Elkay Plastics, a trusted packaging supplier for over 50 years, as they explore how leveraging big-cap software solutions transformed their inventory tracking and contract uploading in the middle market. Discover the edge they've gained by swimming with the industry's most formidable 'sharks'.
Lore Dawes - Customer Incentives Manager
Laura Jeppson - Customer Incentives Supervisor
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4:00PM-5:00PM
Change Management - Boosting Adoption of Vistex Solutions
According to research by consulting firms like McKinsey and Deloitte, organizational change management is a critical success factor in software implementations – close to 70% of the time, projects fail due to change issues (not technology). Vistex change management services are designed to enable our clients to use Vistex Solutions in a way that maximizes their user adoption and helps achieve business case. Backed by a robust change management methodology specific to complex software implementations, Vistex’s change management services encompass the optimal set of activities that have proved to drive the most efficient transformation and can be tailored to meet the needs of any client in any industry. Join us for the first ever session on Vistex’s approach to change management, where we will explain how we can help you and your organization effectively transition to Vistex Solutions.
Erica Bruce
Business Readiness Advisor, Solution Delivery - Business Advisory
Kamilla Whitson
Client Director, Solution Delivery - Business Advisory
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4:00PM-5:00PM
Analytics Roundtable
An opportunity to collaborate with other Vistex customers to share and learn about Vistex Analytics solutions! Hear from Vistex Customers how they are leveraging ViZi to integrate data insights into Go-To-Market processes to manage efficiently, improve user adoption and optimize.
Gaurav Aggrawal
Senior Director of Analytics
Lauren Rosenbaum
Georgia-Pacific - Sr. Directory, Strategy
Sherry Hughes-Bracher
Grainger Manager - Supplier Contract Management
Linda Funk-Dykes
Grainger Manager – Business Systems
PRESENTED BY:
4:00PM-5:00PM
What's Next - Roadmap
Hear about Vistex's vision to drive the momentum over the next 5 years. Learn what is being done on our roadmap for new features and functionality, analytical tools, and improved user experiences. Explore Vistex's cloud and SAP vision and strategy in this session. Learn about our ECC, S/4HANA, and GTMS release strategy and how this will impact you.
Matthew Hays
Senior Director of Product Management
PRESENTED BY:
6:00PM-9:00PM
"Networking Extravaganza"
Omnia Nightclub
PRESENTED BY:
7:00AM-8:00AM
Breakfast
8:30AM-9:30AM
Drive the Momentum in Chargebacks
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 to score 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. ECC, S/4HANA, and GTMS examples will be covered.
Joe Arce
Training Manager
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8:30AM-9:30AM
Drive the Momentum in Claims
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. ECC, S/4HANA, and GTMS examples will be covered.
Amber Brunati
Senior Technical Trainer
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8:30AM - 9:30AM
Drive the Momentum in Pricing
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? Are you unable to see the forest from the trees and ignore the pricing strategies needed to give your best customers the best prices? Let us show you what is next now and relieve those pricing headaches by making the maintenance quicker, more efficient and accurate and more strategic. This session will focus on the new core pricing functionality. ECC, S/4HANA, and GTMS examples will be covered.
Charlie Denys
Solution Engineer
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8:30AM-12:30PM
Hands On Training Workshop: Operational Reporting
This hands-on training course explains the configuration for Vistex ViZi Operational Reporting and Self-Service Reporting applications. Participants will understand the ViZi Building Blocks to create Operational Reports. Additionally, you will learn how to use the new Self-Service Reporting tool to go back and create reports on your own. This class is for the SAP ECC or S/4HANA environments, but the basic concepts can also be applied to GTMS cloud solution.
Lorenzo Catanag
Instructional Designer Manager
Kim Rivera-Reynolds
Software Trainer, SAP Solutions
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8:30AM-12:30PM
Hands On Training Workshop: Data Objects
This hands-on training course explains the main purpose of Data Objects (DO), which is to consume, cleanse, enrich unstructured data and make it available to various Vistex Processes. In this course, participants will learn how to use a DO Data Model and link it to the Workspace for manual editing. This class is for the SAP ECC or S/4HANA environments, but the basic concepts can also be applied to GTMS cloud solution.
Daina Pesiene
GTMS Training Manager
Nancy Huff
Training Engagement Manager
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10:00AM - 11:00AM
Drive the Momentum in Fiori
Learn how to personalize and simplify the user experience (UX) for your Vistex transactions with Fiori apps. Using modern UX design principles, Fiori delivers a role-based user experience that is consistent across SAP and Vistex. Vistex’s Fiori apps can be used for common transactions such as agreements and agreement requests, claims and transactions, and tracking and calculation runs. While this class will not be hands on, some technical knowledge is required. This class will be for the SAP ECC or S/4HANA environments.
Danielle Tranel
Corporate Software Instructor - SAP Solutions
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10:00AM-11:00AM
Drive the Momentum in Master Data
Good, clean master data is the key to the success for a project. See how Vistex can drive the momentum by managing the creation and maintenance of your products, partners, end customers, and vendors or just enhancing it to extend information needed for revenue management programs that may not already be in your ERP.
Andi Thorpe
Solutions Engineer
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10:00AM-11:00AM
Drive the Momentum in Status Flow
Once your data is loaded in Vistex and before you can start executing, approvals need to happen to ensure that everything is done correctly. In this session, learn how this is done using Status Flow. Simple and complex examples will be shown including how to set up email notifications. While this class will not be hands on, some technical knowledge is required. This class will be for the SAP ECC or S/4HANA environments.
Joe Arce
Training Manager
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11:30AM - 12:30PM
Drive the Momentum in Pricing
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? Are you unable to see the forest from the trees and ignore the pricing strategies needed to give your best customers the best prices? Let us show you what is next now and relieve those pricing headaches by making the maintenance quicker, more efficient and accurate and more strategic. This session will focus on the new core pricing functionality. ECC, S/4HANA, and GTMS examples will be covered.
Charlie Denys
Solution Engineer
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11:30AM-12:30PM
Drive the Momentum in Rebates
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. ECC, S/4HANA, and GTMS examples will be covered.
Danielle Tranel
Corporate Software Instructor - SAP Solutions
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11:30AM-12:30PM
Drive the Momentum in Planning
One of the pillars of Vistex's Value Cycle is Planning. Being able to evaluate your revenue management programs before they are created can ensure that they are giving you the results you expect. It can also be used to evaluate the true cost and determine if your best partners are truly getting the best prices and that you are making money overall. In this session, you will see the power of the planning tools that Vistex offers including the matrix, planning, live planner, and proforma. While this class will not be hands on, some technical knowledge is required. This class will be for the SAP ECC or S/4HANA environments.
Amber Brunati
Senior Technical Trainer
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12:30PM-1:30PM
Lunch
A cornerstone of every VISTAS are the Vistex sessions that span all of the Vistex offerings. Throughout the conference you will be able to see the numbers with sessions on our latest features, see what works in each industry with sessions by our industry principals, and see what to do next with our analytics, data science and roadmap offerings.
Whether you’re interested in Rebate Management, Price Management, Channel Management, Claims Management, Rights and Royalties Management, or Trade Promotion Management, this is your chance to hear from an incredible cross section of Vistex customers as they tell the story of their Vistex journey and how they have partnered with Vistex to see the numbers, see what works and see what to do next.
Do you have a specific topic or area of Vistex functionality you need more information on? Could you use expert guidance on issues affecting your Vistex deployment? Would you like to see a demonstration of one of the many Vistex solutions? Vistex experts will be available during VISTAS on October 18th - 20th. These appointments will occur during conference breaks on site at The Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.