Challenges

Often the planning, execution, settlement, and analysis stages of the promotion lifecycle are defined and managed in disparate systems. Through each stage’s transformation of the data the promotion’s details are modified or lost, making post-analysis so difficult that many organizations don’t even try. Without capturing a promotion’s full lifecycle true profitability cannot be determined.

All too often the business cannot adapt quick enough to competitive pressures and customer demands because of rigid technology frameworks that require significant resources to implement new business functions. In desperation the business units implement un-approved work-a-rounds in order to maintain competitiveness.

And without flexibility and ease of use, users abandon new tools and return to inefficient, but familiar, discounted processes.

Features

Business structures play a definitive role in the Flintfox Trade Promotion Foundation by extending the data types stored by the ERP system. Trade Promotion Foundation has no limitations on the number of attribute types and codes that can be created, providing for both simple and complex groupings of business objects, i.e., customers, products, territories, etc. The ease and preciseness of attaching the correct customers and items to a trade agreement significantly reduces the likelihood of errors in pricing, accruals and payments.

Flintfox Trade Promotion Management Solutions are available for Microsoft .NET and Dynamics AX environments. Legacy ERP support is provided through the Flintfox Trade+ Integration Framework. The Trade+ Foundation industry standard extensions & capabilities deliver adaptability and scalability at low costs.

• Preconfigured trade-related views, cubes and lists for claims, deductions, events, promotions, rebates, fees, commissions and revenue-related expenses.
• Smart Client architecture
• Extensible with plug-in objects
• Microsoft .NET Framework V3.5
• Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF)
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
• Allows remote client access using any supported WCF binding e.g. standards based webservice
• Provides interfaces for third party system integration
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 RDBMS
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
• Built for Microsoft Windows Vista, XP
• Microsoft Windows Server Operating System

Benefits

• Quickly adapt to changing business requirements
• Supports highly scalable deployments
• Role based security model protects the business
• International technical standards simplifies IT support

Next Steps

To find out how Flintfox Trade Promotion Management can meet your specific needs, contact us. We welcome the opportunity to discuss your situation.