There are considerable costs involved in maintaining disparate sources of information for trade related expenses, in the form of multiple spreadsheets, or external sub systems, such as

• Entering, transferring and synchronizing data.
• Maintaining data integrity.
• Keeping data current.

This usually requires considerable manual intervention for entry, validation and processing purposes. Additionally the costs of opportunities lost by an inability to see a unified view of data can be quite large.

With Trade+ all trade related data is available in real time, so Trade+ enables cost savings to be made by

• Reducing pricing errors.

No longer is money given away to those who don’t qualify for a deal or discount. Administrative penalties from customers for invoice errors are also avoided.

• Reduced leakage putting money straight to the bottom line.

Trade+ provides enhanced visibility, avoiding the chance of double payments, and increasing the rate of paybacks for invalid deductions.

• Reduced overall spend whether as a value or percentage.

With all data readily available it is much easier to analyze the true effectiveness of promotions, allowing more timely changes to be made, and ineffective promotions to be stopped.

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